Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...observing the solemn Jewish day of mourning, Tisha b'Av. Their action was expressive of the growing understanding among religious groups throughout the civilized world. Bishop Edwin V. O'Hara of Kansas City urged "all who profess the Christian faith [to] understand the declaration of Pope Pius XI that 'all Christians are spiritually Semites...
...Scottish lakeside, announced: "I have been investigating its presence quietly for many years, having a natural hesitance in letting my friends know that I believed in the existence of a fresh-water parallel of the sea serpent." After all, the Rt. Rev. Sir David was once chamberlain to Pope Pius...
...world last week (from the Vatican State to Italy to Switzerland) leaked a report which Cardinal von Faulhaber recently sent Pope Pius XII. The Nazis' systematic war against Christianity, said the Cardinal, has contributed to Germany's present "spiritual unrest," to "manifestations against the regime" which the authorities call "machinations of Foreign Judeo-Communistic elements...
...Pope Pius XII's 25th anniversary as a bishop was celebrated this week by the world's 338,386,000 Roman Catholics. He was consecrated at 41 in the Sistine Chapel by Pope Benedict...
...Catholics were more than a century behind U.S. Protestants in sending out foreign missions. Until 1908, in fact, the U.S. was still a mission land itself. Only in 1911 did Pope Pius X authorize the establishment of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, popularly known as Maryknoll, after the name of its headquarters near Ossining, N.Y., on a hill overlooking the Hudson. Not until 1918, after seven years' thorough preparation, did the society send out American Catholicism's first mission band of four priests to China...