Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Enrico Cardinal Sibilia, 87, longtime Papal Nuncio to Austria (1923-35), oldest member of the College of Cardinals; in Anagni, Italy. His death created the 11th vacancy in the College in the past two years...
They had been written in wartime to Archbishop William Godfrey, papal Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, for transmission to the Pope. The first (in October 1943), referring to restrictions imposed on the Pope, by the German occupation of Rome, expressed "to His Holiness my profound sympathy and that of multitudes of Englishmen who are not of his obedience." The second, written on Good Friday, 1944, was another message of sympathy that included a prayer for peace and that "the whole fellowship of Christ's disciples may be so guided by the Holy Spirit that we may together declare...
...ones that did come went through their traditional devotions, joined by a papal legate, ten bishops, hundreds of priests and thousands of faithful Frenchmen (Stes.-Maries is a shrine not only to gypsies but to Catholics). Rain whipped across the swampy, sandy Camargue plain; in front of the fortresslike church, the officiating legate stood beneath a bright green umbrella. The drenched gypsies carried statues of their saints to the shore while Gardians (Provencal cowboys) charged ahead into the sea. A bishop blessed the sea and the gypsies cried: "Vive Sainte Sarah!" The other pilgrims responded: "Vivent les Saintes Maries...
...real tragedy in Italy today is the absence of any strong liberal party. The Nenni Socialists must cling to the Communists for survival, whereas those led out of the last Socialist Congress by Saragat have been submerged by papal electioneering. The result is that the United States stands side by side with the Vatican in supporting all anti-Communists per se. It is ironic to observe, moreover, that two years after the war's end, the gains of the neo-Fascists are also the gains of the United States...
...Most Anxious." On Good Friday a small procession wound along the Via Dolorosa. At each station of Christ's journey to Calvary, Archbishop Arthur Hughes, Papal Internuncio at Cairo, genuflected and intoned a prayer; the crowd knelt on the cobbled street and answered. Along the route stood mildly curious Arab Tommy-gunners...