Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic pontiff, William Aberhart makes his followers sign pledges that they accept Social Credit "on faith," forbids them to debate or argue its merits...
...effort to meet Premier Laval or any other French statesman, cried, "I want to pay homage to Mussolini. . . . He has done immense good." At the Vatican devout Joseph Aloysius and Enid Lyons, who in Scotland had been jeered by a handful of irrepressibles as "Papists!" knelt before the Supreme Pontiff. His Holiness imparted the Apostolic Benediction and observed, "We still preserve a most pleasant recollection of the great triumph of the Church represented in the Eucharistic Congress at Sydney, Australia" (TIME, Sept...
Quick to retort to the Holy Father was Rev. Ilsley Boone, executive secretary of the International Nudist Conference. "A careful re-reading," said he in Manhattan, "suggests that the Pontiff was not attacking American nudism, since no authenticated case of wantonness or immorality has been cited against the organized movement in this country. . . . He refers to a 'cult' indulging in wantonness, and the American movement, no matter what else it may be, is certainly not a 'cult'. . . . Its leadership here includes members of the Protestant clergy and Catholic laymen...
Pacts & Protocols. As the first member of a French Government to call at the Vatican since Napoleon burst in, Pierre Laval was most warmly received by the Supreme Pontiff who invested him with the Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX, then bestowed his blessing upon the entire French party, including Josette...
...usual the will and pleasure of the Supreme Pontiff were made known by the Papal paper, Osservatore Romano, with matchless sonority and unction: "The Holy Father has deigned to place his venerated signature to a law whereby the Governor of the State for a period of six months beginning Jan. 1, 1935 is given legislative power with reference to the constitution, the suppression and reorganization of the offices of civil administration...