Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blood in the Streets. The immediate cause of Hajir's difficulties was the implacable opposition of top-ranking Mullah Kashani, who calls himself "pontiff and religious head of Moslems in the Middle East." As the highest Persian religious leader he was a power to be reckoned with. Kashani has hated the British ever since they sentenced him to death for resisting their move into Iraq after World War I. Now Anglophobe Kashani denounced Hajir as a "British spy." "Blood will run in the streets before we accept this man," said Kashani...
Pope Pius XII (Thurs. 12:30 a.m., ABC). The Pontiff's annual message, and a description of Christmas Eve ceremonies at the Vatican...
...Napoleon's becoming emperor was very much his own idea, but it was approved by the French Senate and by a plebiscite. Pope Pius VII journeyed to Paris for the coronation, but when it came time to put on the crown, Napoleon took it from the Pontiff's hands and put it on himself...
Climax of the rally was a Sunday mass meeting in St. Peter's Square to hear the Pope's address. The blunt speech left little doubt about the urgency of the Church's fight with world Communism. "The time for reflection and planning is past," the Pontiff said. "The opposing fronts in the religious and moral fields are becoming ever more clearly defined. The time of test is here. Are you ready?" Beneath him the crowd roared a thunderous...
What is existentialism? As far as most Americans are concerned, it is the latest incomprehensible fashion from France. U.S. audiences now have a thorough chance to sample the brew that has been boiling furiously in Europe's intellectual teapots. The pontiff and leading practitioner of existentialism is France's stubby (5 ft.), scholarly Jean-Paul Sartre. His Age of Reason is a dolorous, idea-clotted novel full of moldy characters and philosophic yawpings about life. It is sure to win its author some critical praise. It is not likely to earn his fashion many wearers...