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...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...
This week President Roosevelt's personal envoy to Pope Pius XII, Myron Charles Taylor, had a final interview with the Supreme Pontiff and, having been in Italy just 13 days, left to return to the U.S. What the Pope told Mr. Taylor in reply to the President's message on war-&-peace aims still remained a secret (TIME, Sept. 22), but Mr. Taylor dropped one strong hint that he considered this his last mis sion to the Vatican (reason: war?). Before leaving, he gave his $500,000 villa in Florence to the Pope, Vatican circles laconically reported that...
...radio address on "Papal Pronouncements and American Foreign Policy," Bishop Hurley cried: "Crusade forsooth! Not God, but the enemy of God, wills it; its standard is not the Cross, but the swastika which a great Pontiff called 'this foe of the Cross of Christ'; the rape of Poland is scarcely a recommendation for Christian knights; and the recluse of Berchtesgaden is badly cast for the role of Peter the Hermit. . . . America's attitude toward this new war should not be swayed by Nazi propaganda; it must be based on purely strategic considerations. The Nazi remains Enemy...