Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slaying, sacking and burning in Spain reached such extravagant proportions last week that the Supreme Pontiff, His Holiness Pope Pius XI was moved to declare at Castel Gandolfo: "We are profoundly grieved and deeply moved by the wave of criminal madness which has broken over Spain...
...press was at pains to soft-pedal the fact that the Holy Father's health had anything to do with it. Last week, however, the Vatican household felt vastly relieved when at 6:30 o'clock one evening three automobiles rolled away bearing the 79-year-old Pontiff and a small retinue to Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer snuggery in the cool Alban Hills. Leaving the muggy Vatican a month earlier than usual, Pius XI planned to remain away three months, longest vacation yet scheduled...
...Supreme Pontiff's intimates lately told newshawks that despite their advice Pius XI tires himself by talking at length with pilgrims, sometimes repeating the same idea over & over in different words. On his birthday, instead of speaking in French or Italian as he usually does, he addressed visitors in Latin, making mistakes which could be attributed only to fatigue. According to Rome Correspondent Sonia Tomara of the New York Herald Tribune, release of the papal encyclical on the cinema, longest ever issued to the U. S. hierarchy, was hastened last week before a breakdown of the Pope...
Benito Mussolini, whose vexation with Pope Pius XI for not coming out for the War is great, again tested His Holiness last week by sending to the Holy See a new Italian Ambassador who asked Il Papa to bless not only Il Re, but also Il Duce. The Supreme Pontiff is never quoted, but his words to Ambassador Count Pignatti-Morano Di Custoza were in substance: "We bless His Majesty and his entire Court, granting that benediction in accordance with Your Excellency's desire...
...still waiting for the Head of the Church of Rome to condemn . . . Italy," snorted President Baron Dickinson of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches last week in London. Stoutly rebutting for the Supreme Pontiff, Most Rev. Arthur Kinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, explained that the Holy Father is "a helpless old man. ... As Head of the Church he has no grounds to interfere in purely political matters unless invited...