Word: papally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile long-jawed Alfonso XIII happened to be in Rome paying his respects to Pope Pius. Day after the law was signed came a ringing Papal encyclical, Dilectissimi Nobis ("To our most dear") Bishops, Clergy, and People of Spain. Excerpts...
...induce the legislators to reform measures so opposed to the rights of every citizen, so hostile to the Church. . . . We call on all Spaniards to unite in defense of their faith" subordinating all other ideals to the common good of their country and their religion." Separate from the Papal encyclical was an announcement which came the same day from the Vatican Department of State: Because of their action in passing the church law, all members of the Spanish Government were automatically excommunicated, barred from the comforts and sacraments of the Church...
...said her life had been saved through his intercession, and representatives of the Daughters of the Holy Cross. On another were President Eamon de Valera of Irish Free State, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, Princesses Germaine of Habsburg-Lorraine and Elisabeth of Bourbon-Parme. The Pope assumed the Papal throne. A Cardinal and two other prelates approached, knelt, begged thrice that Blessed Andrè Fournet be declared a saint. The Pope twice told all to pray for God's assistance, then declared the petition granted. Silver trumpets blew, all the bells of Rome rang loudly. By ancient ritual...
Died. Bonaventura Cardinal Cerretti. 60, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal, one-time Apostolic Delegate to Australasia and Papal Nuncio to France, close friend and biographer of Pope Pius XI. often mentioned as his successor; of pneumonia; in Vatican City...
...about to set out for Italy to join Col. von Papen, whose job there was twofold: 1) to prepare the way for a later visit to Italy from Handsome Adolf himself; 2) as a good Catholic and Cameriere Segreto di Spada e Cappa (Private Chamberlain, Cape & Sword) to the Papal Court, to persuade the Vatican that Hitlerism promised no harm to Christianity or to the Catholic Church. What was happening behind him was no help. Having "coordinated" almost everything in sight, the enthusiastic Nazis turned next to the Evangelical Church...