Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to find,* but Secretary Palacio had no particular man in mind, nor any other definite plan. He expected no answer to his cablegram, got none. In Vatican City Pope Pius XI, prayerful and thankful that he had been spared to pass his 79th Easter week, his 15th as Pontiff, had more important things to do than trade views with Señor Palacio...
...Pius XI has given the world his views on countless holy and mundane subjects, in innumerable informal messages and in 28 encyclicals or circular letters. During his grave illness of the past four months, however, His Holiness was generally thought to have said his last say. But the doughty Pontiff heartened his flock by rallying toward the beginning of Lent, and last week Pius XI released his 29th encyclical, a 13,000-word denunciation of Communism, suddenly and startlingly followed this on Palm Sunday with No. 30, addressed to the faithful of Germany and forecasting a rupture between the Holy...
...moved about in a wheeled divan, doing more work and receiving more visitors than at any time since he fell ill two months ago. As Archbishop O'Doherty said last week: "Our fervent prayers ascended to the high heavens, beseeching God to prolong life of such a great Pontiff. Thank God our prayers were heard." On Saturday the Pope quietly passed the 15th anniversary of his election to the Chair of St. Peter...
...Papal Secretary of State, seems to be the popular guess as successor to Plus. Just what kind of a Pope he will make remains to be seen--it may be too much to hope for a Hildebrand--but it is easily possible that he will outshine the dying pontiff, whose best known accomplishment at his time seems to be the encyclical "Casti Connubil", which weightly discusses short skirts, lip rouge, and the like...
...World to a city once piously named El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles. There he created a new archbishopric, first to be organized in the U. S. in 43 years. From the Province of San Francisco (established in 1853) the Supreme Pontiff detached Bishop Philip George Scher and 98,000 Catholics of the diocese of Monterey-Fresno. From the Province of Santa Fe (established 1850) he de tached Bishop Daniel James Gercke and 89,000 Catholics of the diocese of Tucson. These, together with San Diego (now a separate diocese to which a bishop...