Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Supreme Pontiff & Vicar of Christ must not, does not and cannot lower himself sufficiently to become one of two persons who are quarreling. The truth of this statement became luminous, last week, as discussion waxed hot in Italy upon the recent and contradictory speeches of Pope Pius XI and Prime Minister Mussolini-speeches which had seemed to place them on opposite sides of a dispute as to whether the education of Italian youths shall be purely secular and Fascist, or partially religious and Roman Catholic (TIME, April 9). Round 1 of the apparent quarrel had ended when Il Duce backed...
...words of the Pope do not affect the Roman Question . . . [but Catholics must remember] that it is the prerogative of the Pontiff alone to deal with this...
...educative methods of these Fascistized schools and organizations, concluded the Supreme Pontiff scathingly "often show contradiction or ignorance of the most elemental and most noteworthy pedagogic principles...
...Holiness a petition asking the Canonization of the Blessed Cardinal Fisher, onetime Chancellor of Cambridge, and the Blessed Thomas More, onetime Lord Chancellor of England. In the 16th Century these men opposed King Henry VIII's divorce from his first (Catholic) wife; both were beheaded. The Pontiff conversed with the two youths for one half hour, recalling his visits to England...