Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Osservatore Romano (Roman Observer) is the semiofficial evening paper of the Holy See. Printed behind the walls of little Vatican City (area: 108.7 acres; pop.: 1,025), it is accountable only to the Pope and the Papal Secretariate of State. Unlike all other Italian papers, its contents are not dictated by Fascist propagandists, but Mussolini allows it to circulate in Italy...
...brothers of the Society of St. John the Evangelist are Catholics in faith and tradition, but for historical reasons they deny papal authority and dislike being lumped together with the Roman Church. They hold five services a day, and take their meals in silence while the Father Superior reads from the Scriptures to take their minds off their plates. Malicious tongues have it that they are sometimes overzealous in conforming to the Catholic ritual; and it is related that the late Cardinal Hayes warned a blundering altar boy that his faux-pas might soon be adopted by "the brothers...
...Sunday communique, let the world know that it was Herr Ribbentrop and not the Pope who sought the meeting. German sources in Rome predicted that the Foreign Minister would not discuss Poland; Vatican sources retorted that it is not the visitor who decides what will be discussed at a Papal audience but the Pope himself. Age-old protocol sternly prohibits a visitor from bringing up new subjects before His Holiness...
Nevertheless, the Ribbentrop-Pius talk was unprecedentedly long - 65 minutes. Known results of the meeting: Herr Ribbentrop was : 1) not required to kneel and kiss the Papal ring; 2) did not give the Nazi salute to the Pope as he once did to Britain's George VI; 3) greeted His Holiness with "three profound bows." Most extraordinary surmise as to the text of Pope and Minister's secret conversation came from Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times. He thought the German had proposed an anti-Bolshevik crusade...
...almost exactly as the Christian Century had (however seriously) suggested. In full evening dress and black spats, the Ambassador was ushered into the Hall of the Little Throne (instead of the big hall of the Throne), where Pius XII awaited him. Instead of thrice genuflecting and kissing the papal ring, Mr. Taylor bowed twice as he advanced, bowed again while shaking the Pope's hand. Then the Episcopal steelman handed Pius XII two letters. One was from Mr. Roosevelt to "Your Holiness," in which he introduced Mr. Taylor as "a very old friend of mine ... in whom I repose...