Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communism is intrinsically wrong . . ." etc. This is misinformation to many readers, since you forgot to mention that the Pontiff in this encyclical speaks exclusively of atheistic Communism. That adjective atheistic changes radically the meaning of the statement...
Died. Emelyan Yaroslavsky, 65, highest pontiff of atheism, since 1927 president of Soviet Russia's bezbojniki ("League of the Militant Godless"); in Moscow. The bushy-haired Communist in 1939 figured that 30,000,000 of the Soviet Union's 170,500,000 non-souls were still believers. His hobbies were his children and his garden...
...Holiness the Pope, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of Vatican City, Servant of the Servants...
...Pontiff No. 262 in a prelatical line which includes the Apostle Peter (whom, Catholics believe, Christ commanded to establish the Roman Catholic Church); Leo the Great (who saved Rome from Attila's sacking Huns); Lucius III (who instigated the Inquisition); Innocent III (who exercised effective political control over all Italy and much of Europe, bringing the temporal power of the Papacy to its high-water mark); Leo X (a worldly, cultivated gentleman who excommunicated Martin Luther and proved incapable of dealing with the problems of the Reformation); Alexander VI (a Borgia, who practiced simony and nepotism and failed...
...Catholics sometimes forget that His Holiness the Pope, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Sovereign of Vatican City, and Servant of the Servants of God, is also the Bishop of Rome. Last week the Bishop of Rome had a local problem on his hands: a "serious shortage" of priests in the Eternal City. Reason: twelve of Rome's some 600 priests died last year, only six new ones were ordained. Sadly the Bishop of Rome ordered several of the city...