Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heel overran its $160 million estimate by almost 50%. The setback was enough to topple fast-running Managing Director Piero Giustiniani, the driving force behind Montecatini's expansion, and leave full command in the hands of the more conservative chairman, Count Carlo Faina, 69. Faina, a papal count who claims direct descent from Napoleon, guided Montecatini in the early postwar years, but had turned technical direction over to Giustiniani. After failing to raise more capital in Italy, Faina began negotiations with Shell to buy half of the Brindisi plant and another plant at Ferrara...
Such is the one-party "guided democracy" that has evolved in Mexico since the Revolution of 1910, and it seems to suit the country well. The choice of a new President is as ritualistic as a papal succession. Under the rules, a candidate cannot toot his own trumpet; he must never give the slightest inkling that presidential ambitions have entered his modest head. Instead, his friends quietly start the bandwagon rolling and set about persuading the party powers that their man is ready for the No. 1 spot. The leaders of the P.R.I.'s trade-union wing, the peasant...
...dead center at last. By an overwhelming majority, the 2,300 Roman Catholic prelates gathered in St. Peter's Basilica voted in favor of the proposition that bishops collectively share with the Pope, by divine right, "full and supreme power" over the church. The vote did not challenge papal supremacy, but it did indicate that the council will eventually provide Catholic bishops with more rights and authority than they now have-and it marked the first sign of real progress since the session began. Said Pittsburgh's Bishop John Wright: "This marks the turning point of the council...
...Roman Jews in 1943 and 1944, the Pope made no formal protest, but allowed convents and monasteries to take in refugees, and offered 50 kilograms of gold to ransom the lives of 200 Jewish leaders. In Hungary and Slovakia, both predominantly Catholic countries governed by Catholic Nazi puppets, his papal nuncios had some success in halting the deportation of Jews to Polish death camps...
Silence & Courage. Hochhuth's answer is that calculated prudence is appropriate for a diplomat, but not for a man with the awesome responsibility of being Christ's earthly representative. In Der Stellvertreter, Hochhuth contrasts papal silence with the action of Denmark's King Christian, who helped forestall Nazi persecution by vowing to wear the Star of David if his country's Jews had to, and with Munster's Bishop Clemens August von Galen, whose fiery sermons ended the Nazi euthanasia campaign in his city...