Word: pompili
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...Naval Operations [NATION, May 27], expressed varying views. Rand Knox of San Rafael, California, remembered the recent forced resignations of other high-ranking military officials and suggested Boorda had overreacted. Wrote Knox: "The military makes the trivial important and the important trivial." Retired Army Sergeant Major David L. Pompili of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was saddened by the suicide but pointed out, "If Boorda's citation did not award the V device [for valor in combat experience], he was not authorized to wear it. Careers are ruined by lying to the troops, and the good admiral knew that." But Rodolfo...
...defensive-offensive body, the Pontifical Organization for Preservation of the Faith and for the Provision of New Churches in Rome. As president of this militant religious police His Holiness appointed newly-hatted Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, 58, and instructed him to work in close co-operation with Basilio Cardinal Pompili, vicar-general of Rome. Well equipped is Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani for his new assignment. Born in Rome he knows its neighborhoods and people better than most of his Cardinal colleagues. As secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith the past seven years, he is an expert...
...cold-blooded anti-religion campaign. He has placed Russia under the particular care of St. Therese. His commission on Russian affairs has forged new and special weapons of prayer, indulgence, invocation, propaganda. Last week His Holiness startled all Europe with a bitter denunciation. To his vicar general, Cardinal Basilic Pompili, Bishop of Velletri, he wrote...
These were the mournful words which Pope Pius XI wrote in an open letter to Cardinal Pompili, vicar of the Rome diocese, apropos of a "gymnastic" competition which was held in that city last week. The Pontiff proceeded to explain that he was not, in principle, opposed to athletics but that when competitions became too exhibitionistic, he felt compelled to frown. Governmental circles in Rome regarded the Pope's letter as another manifestation of the Vatican's opposition to what the Pope calls "Fascist monopolization of the education of youth." At the end of his document the Pontiff...
...Parliament. The reactionary wing of the Vatican found itself in,thorough sympathy with the paternalistic nature of Fascism's aims. There was a good bit of cordial cooperation accomplished secretly. Filippo Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner appointed by Mussolini to succeed the Mayor of Rome, paid a call on Cardinal Pompili, Vicar of Rome, the officer whose predecessors had once ruled the city under the Papal States. His call was returned noncommittally (TiME, March 24, 1923). The Fascisti restored religious education in the public schools. In return for these many favors, the Vatican helped Mussolini to break the power of little...