Word: papally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central problem of the papal election was to select a pope who was, above all else, a statesman. Pacelli was the obvious choice. His natural flair for diplomacy, coupled with the vast amount of training in practical politics that a cardinal must undergo, made him the best choice for the papacy at this particular hour. Besides holding the titular Archbishopric of Sardis, he was Papal Regent, as well as Secretary of State to the Holy See. In the last capacity especially he had served his church well...
...Journalist Williams' dark opinion that: "The papal election of 1939 is destined to go down in history marked not only with great importance but also because of singular and possibly unique attending circumstances...
...royal family) and Count Galeazzo Ciano (for Mussolini) paid homage. Next day the Pope's body was carried into St. Peter's, where the weeping populace, which had been thronging St. Peter's Square, began filing past his bier. There began the novemdiali, nine days of papal funeral rites, on the fourth day of which the Pope was to be immured in a triple coffin of cypress, lead and elm. His resting place, near the tomb of the Fisherman in the crypt of St. Peter's, Pius XI chose long ago, declaring: ''I also...
...dean, however, was not in Rome last week. He was William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston. Twice Cardinal O'Connell has missed a papal election by not getting to Rome soon enough. The second time, in 1922, he missed it by no more than an hour, expostulated to such effect that one of Pius XI's first acts was to extend the minimum period between the Pope's death and the opening of the conclave to 15 days. Last week it looked as if Cardinal O'Connell, 79 and ailing, wintering in Nassau...
...year-old Pontiff would have lived longer, said his physicians, had he not been confined to the Vatican until 1929 when the Lateran Treaty was signed. He remained within the Vatican grounds for seven hot, debilitating summers as a protest against Italian expropriation of papal property...