Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state of affairs at Caravate, he put in an urgent call for his friend Angelo Messa, an elder of the Baptist Church in Milan.* Both hastened to Caravate, arrived to find a crowd milling around the main square. From a balcony above their heads Pastor Schreider blasted the papal system, offered the "true faith which does not need external manifestations to assert itself." The crowd cheered. Many said they were ready to turn Protestant on the spot. They particularly liked the name of the Baptist elder-"Messa," the Italian word for Mass...
...difference between Joy and such popular religious novels as The Robe and The Song of Bernadette is the difference between a papal nuncio and a parish priest. Essentially a parable of intellectual temptation, the book is primarily dialectical in method, and almost wholly devoid of the usual stage effects of fiction. It is charged with burning vitality, but its drama exists mainly in the consciences of the characters...
Thin, alabaster-pale Father John Baptist Janssens, new General of the Society of Jesus (TIME, Sept. 23), paid a formal call upon his Holy Father at the papal summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, in the Alban hills. Said Pius...
...York Times, among others, had hired the monsignor as Vatican legman. He turned in such a sloppy, inaccurate report of an important Papal speech that the Times's Rome bureau chief Milton Bracket had to repudiate the story next day. Eventually Bracker fired him, as did almost every U.S. news service. Pucci had handed the A.P. and other agencies a story that the then Msgr. Francis Spellman was planning a trip to the Middle East to review the troops; it turned out that he had read "Middle West" in a French newspaper and got the story wrong...
When all local examinations are completed, the documents of the case proceed to the Congregation of Rites in Rome, where they are meticulously reviewed, approved by the Pope (in his Christian name, so as not to compromise papal authority) and returned to the diocesan tribunals for a second pleading. Once again the postulators and devil's advocates examine the Servant of God's writings, study her local reputation for saintliness, make sure that no public act of homage, prayer, or religious devotion has ever been paid to the individual under examination. If they and the Congregation of Rites...