Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Multiply the piety of an Irish policeman by ten, imagine him to be escorting the Supreme Pontiff cubed, and you have the state of mind of Police Sergeant Juei Honda when things went horribly, incredibly wrong last week in Kiryu, Japan's silk centre...
Papal State. Since the Austrian Chancellor had been a model of piety to all his country, seeking God's guidance in prayer before every important decision, the Supreme Pontiff was quick to say a special mass for Engelbert Dollfuss, denounced his "unspeakable murder" and telegraphed Austrian President Miklas...
...donned the white soutane in 1922. The Pope exhibited elaborate impartiality in the case by once annulling a session of Cardinals, causing them to deliberate more carefully. But once it was settled and the time approached for public canonization ceremonies, Pius XI permitted himself a little more indulgence. Only pontiff of modern times to saint a friend, he became last week the first one ever to canonize on Easter Sunday. As if this were not sufficient glory for Don Bosco (henceforth to be called St. Giovanni Bosco), the Pope used the occasion to give his church the music...
Contrariwise, His Eminence Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, was perfecting last week a "Save the Starving Russians" drive understood to have been directly inspired by the Supreme Pontiff. German Protestants have pledged co-operation through their Union of Evangelical Churches. As Executive Secretary the Cardinal has picked Dr. Ewald Ammende. administrator of Catholic famine relief in Russia during the years 1920-22, years now admitted by Soviet leaders to have been among the hungriest in Russian historv...
...Villeneuve admonished women to bathe in suitable costume, "a skirt reaching nearly to the knees ... a species of coat or cape which shields the shape of the body." When he set sail from New York last month he said: "I do not feel at all worthy, but the sovereign pontiff calls...