Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...receipt of the beautifully illuminated copy of the Resolution passed by the National Council of Catholic Women in the United States of America advocating the Cause of Beatification of the great and holy Pontiff Pius X. I am informed that you have addressed it to the Holy Father, as was suitable, but I am deeply grateful for your thought of me in this connection...
...Holiness received in audience Mgr. Antonio Guizar y Valencia, Bishop of Chihuahua, Mexico. The Pontiff expressed his great anxiety over the present situation in Mexico...
...case in point.) The Dean declares that the Roman church exhibits the old Roman genius for international government, and to prove that it is a static, not a progressive, type of government, he quotes from the Papal syllabus of 1864: "If anyone says the Roman pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself and come to terms with progress, with liberalism, and with modern civilization, let him be anathema." The Dean sees three remarkably good points in this church government-it makes for loyalty, it keeps in touch with human nature through sacraments and music, it works...
Clive Bell, distinguished English critic and pontiff of modernism, declares cubism is in decline. It has served its purpose of freeing art from conventional restraints, and is in danger of becoming itself a mere convention...