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...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...
...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...