Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parallel between his career and that of Cardinal Villeneuve. The latter was a seminarian, free from factional ties, consecrated at 46 and given the red hat less than three years later. Canadians wondered whether Monsignor Roy would complete the parallel by becoming a cardinal at the next Papal consistory...
...terms, and by steering clear of Italian reactionaries. What is needed, beyond this, is the kind of moral effort a biographer put into the mouth of St. Dominic. Whether Dominic actually said it or not, the words are a call to men everywhere who face the Communist threat. When papal legates (the story goes) came in splendor to help him fight the Albigensian heretics of southern France, St. Dominic entreated them thus...
...rises from the table and goes to his private study. He makes a point of ringing the bell on his desk announcing that audiences are beginning, at exactly one minute to 9. Punctually on the hour, the first Cardinal, after genuflecting to kiss the papal ring, is seated at the Pope's desk...
...about 1:30, sometimes as late as 2 a.m., the Pope rises from his desk and goes back to the chapel to complete the reading of his Breviary and to say evening prayers. The long day is almost over. The papal bed is large but very plain, with a black iron head and brass knobs. Several of his predecessors used the bed and Pius XI died on it. There, for the next four hours or so, Eugenic Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, sleeps until the beginning...
...paneled quiet of the Papal Cancelleria last fortnight, eager-eyed young priests leaned forward on elbows shiny from desk-reading; ascetic monks stretched thin necks from their lowered cowls. All sat raptly silent along the wainscoted wall, while speaker followed speaker at the highly-polished wooden reading stand. The occasion: a course of studies on existentialism under the auspices of the Vatican's Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas...