Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. In 1179 a rich Lyons merchant named Peter Waldo took a vow of poverty and defied the Pope by preaching and interpreting the Bible on his own. Excommunicated as a heretic, Waldo fled to the hills with his followers. For nearly 700 years the Waldenses held out against papal persecution in the valleys of the Cottian Alps. A hundred years ago they were granted religious freedom. But their centennial found today's Waldenses still worried about their status under Italy's present government...
...Brien is expected to present the social Roman Catholic thesis, established by papal encyclical, that Communism and Christianity are irretrievably opposed, and that one or the other must eventually perish...
...liked it. Next day she picked up a phone and asked the operator for the Pope. Put through to Rome, she was told by a Vatican City spokesman that the Pope could not speak English (he can) and would not be able to talk to her. To a papal aide she explained: "I'm an American girl who heard your choir and I just thought someone ought to tell you how good it is." The bill...
...meet Eva at the airport and give a low wolf-whistle as she emerged from her private plane in slick, flower-printed silk pulled skin-tight over her hips and bosom. There was an audience with the Pope, luncheon with the Foreign Minister, a Grand Hotel reception glittering with papal titles, and a dazzling performance of A'ïda under the stars in the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Eva, in black flowered silk with a white fox cape, her hair, ear lobes and shapely neck glittering with diamonds, arrived on the arm of Premier de Gasperi just in time...
...second highest papal decoration. Onetime Argentine President Justo received the top decoration, the Supreme Order of Christ...