Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, the 260th successor to St. Peter, Bishop of Rome, might well have been somewhat astonished. He would have found, impudently set forth, only trite commonplaces about himself. The only little known fact concerned his predecessor, Pius X, namely that the "undergarments" of the late Pontiff "were badly worn out and patched in many places...
...altogether necessary to salvation for every human being to be subject to the Roman pontiff." So wrote Pope Boniface VIII in the year 1302. Two centuries later Leo X, the pope who failed to comprehend the significance of Luther's revolt against the church, explained that "every human being" meant "all Christian believers", in an attempt, it seems, to mitigate the arrogance of the papal claim to universal political supremacy while retaining it in things spiritual. Even as thus amended the statement is sufficiently uncompromising, but it is the sort of thing one can well imagine popes in the fourteenth...
...Protestant as in the Catholic Church. The modern world might have stood in open mouthed surprise at these condemnations had not its breath been taken away by the last sentence of the Syllabus in which all were anathematized who had the temerity to maintain that "the Roman pontiff ought to reconcile himself to progress, liberalism, and modern civilization...
...direct assault upon both. It would be bad enough if it were but the ill-considered commercial venture of an individual; but a papal chamberlain is esteemed a member of the Pope's household itself. . . . [That office] is one of intimate association with the person of the Pontiff. One cannot conceive of a papal chamberlain embarking upon such a career without the knowledge and approval of his superior. Clearly he must be sent, unless he is imposing upon the credulity of the public...
...Milan, Italy, last week on an especial mission to buy a third motor car for His Holiness Pope Pius XI. The smaller of the two motor cars which the people of Milan gave Achille Ratti when in 1922 he was called from being their archbishop to become the Supreme Pontiff has worn out. The Pope has used it effectively in his drives about the Vatican grounds...