Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, 76, Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church; in Vatican City. He succeeded Pius XI as Papal Nuncio to Poland (1921-27), negotiated the Concordat between the Vatican and the Polish Republic...
Thursday. The churchmen rise in protest. Father Edmund A. Walsh of Georgetown University, onetime papal envoy in Russia, says the Soviet Constitution "guarantees nothing but a hollow shell of religious freedom." Methodist Bishop Raymond J. Wade of Detroit, former bishop of the Russian area, says: "Undisputed imprisonment and slaying of tens of thousands of priests . . . together with thousands of closed churches, speak louder than printed words...
...Protestant clergymen were contrary to Catholic canon law, Catholic judges in Canada's overwhelmingly Catholic province of Quebec have declared such unions illegal and annulled them. But last week the highest tribunal in the Province, the Court of Appeals, unanimously threw out such an annulment, indicating that a papal decree did not change the laws of Quebec...
...force when the present Quebec civil code was promulgated in 1866. But after Pius X revoked it in 1908, Quebec judges began interpreting the civil code provision that impediments to marriage "remain subject to the rules followed hitherto in the various churches" to mean they remain subject to papal ruling. They consistently invalidated mixed marriage not performed with "due precautions" by a Catholic priest...
...went early to bed. Next morning he was up betimes and off to the Vatican for a conference of nearly two hours with Papal Secretary of State Luigi Cardinal Maglione. That afternoon he spent an hour and ten minutes with the Pope...