Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church of which I am a member." Correspondents knew that General Lee, an Episcopalian, kept a Bible on his desk and another in his briefcase, was an ardent churchgoer, had been known to preach a sermon on several occasions. They remembered that he called on Pope Pius XII several times, presumably to discuss means of smoothing Protestant-Catholic relations...
...prolific mothers, a Mrs. Fitzgerald, paid impartial homage to statesmanship by calling her eighth Eamon, her ninth Winston; Mrs. Noonan named her 13th and 14th Pius and Pascal. A connoisseur of hospitals, Mrs. Noonan scorned the nurses who had attended her on the occasion of Padraic. "Nosey. They was that nosey that they turned out me locker for to clean it. Quare sort of cleaning they gev it. Examinin' me belongin's. Jest because I had put away a couple of biscuits and crunchies and some fish and chips me cousin got me and pickled pigs' trotters...
...Napoleon's becoming emperor was very much his own idea, but it was approved by the French Senate and by a plebiscite. Pope Pius VII journeyed to Paris for the coronation, but when it came time to put on the crown, Napoleon took it from the Pontiff's hands and put it on himself...
Baptist Minister John Franklyn Norris, of Detroit and Fort Worth, who once attracted wide attention, even in secular circles, by shooting to death an unarmed political enemy (he pleaded self-defense, won an acquittal), turned up at the Vatican. Norris read Pius XII a statement deploring Baptist protests against the friendly exchange of letters between the White House and the Vatican, later reported to the press a jolly conversation. He told the Pope, said he, that U.S. Baptists were really afraid the Pope might make a Roman Catholic out of Baptist Harry S. Truman. The Pope, said Norris, threw...
...prestige in despairing Europe than any other writer of the postwar generation. Fashionable groups in conquered France took up existentialism; now defeated Germany is reportedly infested with it. Existentialists trace themselves back to Danish Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, but they also owe a debt to Nazi Philosopher Martin Heidegger. Pope Pius XII has branded their ideas a "philosophy of disaster...