Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Relics in St. Peter's Basilica housed the body of Pope Pius X, who died in 1914, reputedly of a broken heart because he was unable to prevent World War I. The body lay in state, garbed in scarlet, white and gold vestments given by Pius XII. Two papal Guards, with drawn swords, stood outside the floodlit chapel as many a British and U.S. serviceman stared through the grilled doors at the Pontiff's face and hands, blackened by mummification...
...Decided not to distribute the medal issued annually on the Vigil of the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul (June 28) to commemorate some notable event of the past papal year. Reason: The medal approved by Pius XII several months ago showed the Pope standing in an attitude of prayer amid the ruins caused by the first U.S. bombing of Rome last July. The old medal will be melted down, a new design drawn. Rumored theme: the Pope depicted as the protector and savior of Rome...
...regrets that it is not at liberty to reveal his identity. But TIME believes his report. Canonical laxity among the Spanish clergy is not new. Nor is religious apathy among the Spanish people-a result of the indifference of many Spanish clerics to the noble social precepts of the Papal encyclicals...
...each visitor the Pope spoke a mellow word or two. To each he presented a lithographed photograph of himself, a black-and-silver rosary in a small olive-green packet bearing the Papal seal...
...evening soon after the fall of Rome, hobnailed boots clumped into the plush-gold Throne Room at the Papal Palace. Some 200 war correspondents, army PRO's, photographers and gate-crashers crowded the hallowed consistorial chamber. Promptly at 7 p.m. His Holiness opened the most unusual press interview ever granted by a Pope...