Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of the war, Pope Pius XII last week let it be known he would not celebrate the usual elaborate Easter Mass in St. Peter's, ending with a blessing urbi et orbi, "to the city and the world." To 3,000 pilgrims the Holy Father expressed his hope "that the nations in conflict today may as soon as possible sheathe their swords and attain a sure peace based on justice...
Medieval and Renaissance Choral Music (Choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music, conducted by Mother Georgia Stevens, R.S.C.J.; Victor: 12 sides; $6.50). As glowing as a rose window, these early church melodies are sung to perfection by Mother Stevens' famed female choristers. (The Pius X School trains liturgical teachers chiefly, since women are ordinarily not supposed to sing in Catholic churches.) As result of a mix-up in pressing, however, Tenor Melchior (see above) displaces the choir on one record...
Eugenic Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, is an Italian, but he is neutral. He is also honest and suffers acutely because the Axis press and radio systematically distort his acts, words and purposes, try incessantly to persuade the world that somehow or other His Holiness is on the totalitarian side against Democracy. Recently, for instance, the Nazi-dominated No. 1 Catholic news-organ of the Czech Protectorate declared: "There is no Catholic in Europe who would shed a tear to see the collapse of democratic political disorder and who further would not sincerely welcome the fall of economic liberalism, which...
...building. They are all pin-neat. The last is paneled and pretentious. It contains one small picture, of Franklin D. Roosevelt (signed). There Murray looks most like what he is not: a small town bank president. Among the few books on his desk is The Encyclicals of Pius XI, which sets forth the papal views on trade unionism. Murray himself is a "practical" Catholic...
...During the severe influenza epidemic of 1918, they offered special prayers to St. Michael, escaped without a single case of the flu. The school later installed a $7,500 stained-glass window in honor of St. Michael and the "Canterbury saints." For his "outstanding work in Catholic education" Pope Pius XI two years ago made Dr. Hume a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great...