Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quick promotion. Cesare was the bastard son of Vatican Vice-Chancellor Rodrigo Borgia and his mistress Vanozza de Catanei. When he was only six, he was made Canon of Valencia. At 15, he became Bishop of Pamplona; at 16, archbishop of Valencia; at 17, a cardinal. Only the papal throne itself stood ahead of young Cardinal Borgia, but since that was now occupied by his crafty father (who had become Pope Alexander VI), the frustrated youngster started looking around for other worlds to conquer...
...Democracy Has Triumphed." Early in the morning, the government decided to make a deal. At President Arevalo's request, the Papal Nuncio and the ambassadors of El Salvador and Argentina asked for a truce and offered the rebels generous terms, including amnesty and a government reorganization. Running low on ammunition, the rebels agreed...
...encountered opposition. Plump Maria Theresa of Austria, a doting and jealous wife, had her husband's Masonic lodge raided because she was sure that her philandering Francis was up to no good. More effective opposition came from the Catholic Church. Pope Clement XII, in 1738, issued a papal edict denouncing Masonry as a trespass on the church's spiritual and moral domain. Rome's opposition to Masonry has been unceasing. The church, which excommunicated all Communists last week, has been excommunicating Masons for 200 years...
...Vatican spokesman asserted: "Excommunication has no need of a material executor who can be traced and punished. Excommunication acts upon the guilty in the secret of the conscience." On the other hand, Eastern Catholics who were terrorized into lip service to Communism would not incur the penalties of the papal edict. Priests, he added, were expected to do their duty regardless of personal consequences...
Journalist, author, social reformer Paul Blanshard has produced a hardhitting attack upon the political ideas and practices of the American Catholic hierarchy. His latest book scratches the surface of the Canon Law, spot bombs the Papal Encyclicals, and analyzes in telling journalese pamphlets, articles, and speeches of both leading and lesser clerics throughout the country. His theses are in the main two: The Catholic community in America is tightly organized and disciplined from Rome; and the Church militant is bent upon securing political supremacy for itself and intolerance for all dissenting groups...