Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quid vobis videtur?" ("What do you think?") inquired the Pope. The Princes of the Church stood up, removed their red skullcaps, bowed in assent. The papal proposal was not a surprise to them: the Pope's intentions had been announced to all the world two months...
...XIII, however, was not unwilling to learn about Americanism. He took back his ban on Catholic participation in the first strong U.S. trade-union movement, the Knights of Labor, after Cardinal Gibbons pointed out that: 1) U.S. unions were not infected with anticlericalism; and 2) the papal ban would only drive Catholic workers out of the Church...
...Rome again in 1925, as the first U.S. priest to serve as assistant to the Papal Secretary of State, Spellman became a leader in the $1,000,000 playground system erected in Rome by the Knights of Columbus, startled dignified Italian clerics and Italian urchins by his boxing and skill at tennis...
...Americanized the Vatican press department, for the first time issued papal documents to newsmen in all important languages. (This week, with typical American awareness of the press, he agreed to argue with Vatican authorities that over 100 secular reporters and photographers should be admitted to the Hall of Benedictions when Pope Pius presents the biretta to the new cardinals.) He also became the Vatican's first radio adviser, followed the Pope's first broadcast with an English translation...
...cardinal-elect might not travel to Rome: Johannes de Jong of Utrecht, Holland's first cardinal since the Reformation, whose physician decided he had not yet recovered from a recent motor accident. His red hat would be brought to him by a papal legate...