Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excitement awakened the sleeper, who cried out as he arose: "No, no, I am not the Pontiff! Deny it! Deny...
...urging their flocks to do likewise, in protest against the Government's suppression of the Pope's temporal power in 1870. Recently, however, Il Duce has restored a mite of earthly authority to Il Papa (TIME, Feb. 18), and last week purring cinema machines proved how mountainous is the Pontiff's gratitude to the Dictator. Especially vivid and stirring were the footages showing Cardinal La Fontaine, Patriarch of Venice; Cardinal Gamba, Archbishop of Turin; and Cardinal Mam, Archbishop of Pisa, all of whom proceeded directly from the cele- bration of High Mass to vote at the head of their clergy...
...before the recent Italo-Papal Treaty, Concordat and Financial Agreement was signed (TIME, Feb. 18). Such was the iron efficacy of Dictator Benito Mussolini's censorship that the Italian press had not yet printed a single word of what was to occur. None the less the Pontiff's niece, like everyone else, had heard rumors, and she asked...
...positively affirmed that after a further attempt had been made to penetrate the Pontiff's reserve, he sternly exclaimed...
...news," Count Dalla Torre explained in a signed editorial that the Holy See's reconciliation with the Italian State was "entirely religious." It is believed in Rome that Count Dalla Torre never signs an editorial until it has been read and at least tacitly approved by the Supreme Pontiff. The Count is aware that the "entirely religious" Italo-Papal settlement is replete with references to specific plots of real estate, and is supplemented by a Financial Convention whereby the Holy See receives from the Italian State...