Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Sinatra, in Rome with a U.S.O. troupe, had an audience with Pope Pius XII and reported, wide-eyed, that the Pontiff had asked if he was a tenor or baritone. Said The Voice: "I was amazed the Pope had heard of me. I was speechless. I am enthralled by all the grandeur. I am thrilled...
...Pontiff postponed a scheduled audience with Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, the Prefect of Propaganda Fide, and received the two Americans at once. They were with him 56 minutes. From the Pope's study on the second floor, Flynn moved to the third-floor office of Monsignor Domenico Tardini, the Vatican's Secretary for Extraordinary Affairs and president of the special Vatican Committee for Russia...
...going the rounds of a lanky, soft-voiced Texan in a large group of soldiers received by the Pope in a recent audience. First in line, he didn't quite know what to do when the Holy Father offered his ring to be kissed. So he shook the Pontiff's outstretched hand and said politely, as nice boys do in Texas, 'Hi yah, Mister Pope...
...unable to prevent World War I. The body lay in state, garbed in scarlet, white and gold vestments given by Pius XII. Two papal Guards, with drawn swords, stood outside the floodlit chapel as many a British and U.S. serviceman stared through the grilled doors at the Pontiff's face and hands, blackened by mummification...
Unperturbed, high on the dais in front of his massive gold throne, stood the Vicar of Jesus Christ. In heavily accented but clearly understood English, the tall Pontiff blessed the newshawks, gave them fatherly counsel...