Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gregorian Chant, pure, unharmonized 6th-Century melody, best heard in recent years from the Benedictine monks of Solesmes, France; 2) the "modern," which in liturgical circles includes all church music written since the beginning of the 18th Century - including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Verdi. Since 1904, when Pope Pius X pronounced on the subject of sacred music in his famed encyclical Motu Proprio, the use of "modern" music by the Catholic church has been sharply restricted.** But Palestrina's 16th-Century creations (best performed recently by the Sistine Chapel Choir of Rome, the Westminster Cathedral Choir of London...
During the past 35 years, he has trouped with his choir from California to Rome, where he was a great favorite with Pius X. In Milwaukee his playful choir boys stuffed the trombones and tubas, for an accompanied number, full of newspapers. The resulting tone, says Father Finn, "sounded like everybody was playing a fine-toothed comb. I had to ring the curtain down so we could fix things." In Regina, Saskatchewan, Finn found himself without a baton. A gentleman, "a true gentleman," says Finn, "took the rung of his chair and whittled it down so that it would...
...Popes since St. Peter, 83 are saints. Last one: St. Pius V, canonized...
...Pope Pius XII received in private audience...
...Preaching in Rome's newly reopened synagogue, Chief Rabbi Israele Zoller paid a warm tribute to Pope Pius. He told his congregation, which included many a U.S. serviceman, that the Vatican had worked indefatigably to mitigate the suffering of Rome's Jews during the Nazi occupation. The Rabbi said that the Pope himself had sometimes interceded with the Nazis. In some cases he saved Jewish lives, in others he was able to soften Nazi penalties...