Word: papally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Holy Year pilgrims packing the Papal State under a scorching sun, Catholics were relieved to hear last week that Pope Pius XI is taking special measures to conserve and spur his strength. "The Holy Father, in cases where an elevator is not available, now uses a sedan chair," said a high Vatican official last week. "During the hottest weather, after receiving enormous numbers of pilgrims, he sometimes varies his abstemious diet, partaking of a little iced champagne...
Socialite, luxury-loving Franz von Papen is no Nazi. In the Hitler Cabinet he keeps his Vice Chancellorship (a decorative sinecure) chiefly because he is a Papal Chamberlain and because Germany's new Nazi masters suppose him to be an ''intimate friend" of His Holiness Pope Pius XI. All last week Herr von Papen was enjoying himself in Rome. He loves nothing quite so much as supping in state at a Cardinal's Palace with twinkling candles on the table and viands of the best. Every day Vegetarian Hitler called up to ask how the negotiations...
...Abandoned. From his office at the Vatican, slim, sensitive-fingered Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli kept assuring German Catholics through statements to the Roman Press that their enforced political sacrifices were not in vain...
...proof of this claim was in the German-Papal concordat. It consists of 35 articles, provides notably for the Catholic education of all children of Catholic parents in Germany. In districts where Catholics are in a majority the public schools shall be Catholic. Elsewhere Catholic children will attend separate Catholic schools. Thus Pope Pius retains in Germany a firm grip on what he likes to call "the dear youth...
When Nazi policemen threatened to kick the door down Dr. Wasserback submitted to arrest. In London Millimetternich-Dollfuss made protest to the Chief German Delegate and arranged for another formal protest from the Papal Nuncio in Berlin. Then, sure of the world's sympathy, he went back to bed. Dr. Wasser-back was released in a few hours, ordered from the country. Embarrassed Nazis ordered the German Press to suppress all mention of his arrest...