Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these plain-spoken words, the late Pope Pius XI defined the Roman Catholic Church's implacable stand against the modern world's biggest heresy. Last week, the Vatican's newspaper advocated compromise with Soviet Russia, widely regarded as Communism's headquarters...
Toughest questions in the test: What public position have you taken about 1) the present Government of Poland; 2) the trial of Archbishop Stepinac; 3) the present Government of Greece; 4) the Vatican v. Moscow? Would you be willing to be quoted publicly as supporting this statement (from Pope Pius XI's Encyclical on Atheistic Communism): "Communism is intrinsically wrong, and no one who would save Christian civilization may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever...
...Work." At 6 o'clock sharp Pius enters his study and a new phase of great activity. He starts with an examination of the ecclesiastical or political issues which have been laid before him by the Cardinals in the morning's Udienze di Tabella. Eight o'clock is dinner time. The meal is lighter than lunch, takes less than an hour. After dinner the Pope goes to his chapel again for 20 minutes of prayer...
...night last week, he devoted this period to typing out, on his famed white portable, a speech of welcome in Spanish-his pet language-to Uruguay's new Minister to the Holy See, Alfredo Carbonell Debali. But for the most part, Pius worked last week on a long, careful speech to be delivered at the beatification of Maria Goretti, constantly checking and consulting books and scriptures from the Vatican library to supply the many references and quotations...
...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...