Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Papal supporters, as distinguished from the White nobility, or royalist adherents. † Early in their careers the two Churchills agreed that one should alter his name, to avoid confusion. The Englishman consented to make the change because the American was three years older and far more famous at the time, has signed his writings Winston S. Churchill ever since...
When a moral question comes up, the Roman Catholic Church searches diligently for a specific answer. To solve a Catholic's problems, canonical experts are constantly at work combining and restating scriptural reading and papal encyclicals in terms of modern living...
...mainly the work of 77-year-old Monsignor Angelo Mercati, Prefect of the Vatican Archives, who began looking into the papal roster during the reign of the present Pontiff's predecessor, Pius XI. Two centuries ago, Giovanni Marangoni, custodian of the Roman catacombs, made up a list of popes based largely on a series of dated papal portraits on the walls of the famed Roman church, St. Paul's Outside the Walls. Scholars had known that the old list was inaccurate, but it took Monsignor Mercati's diligent digging to discover how inaccurate it was. This week...
Because of sketchy records and the questionable validity of some papal elections, Pius XII will probably never know whether he is the 256th successor to St. Peter or the 260th - or somewhere in between...
...Cayley Headlam, 84, Britain's blunt, white-maned Bishop of Gloucester (1923-45), who was largely responsible for bringing about intercommunion between the Church of England and Europe's "Old Catholics" (a sect formed in 1870 by Roman Catholics who refused to subscribe to the doctrine of papal infallibility), was famed as one of the foremost Anglican scholars of his generation; in Durham, England...