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Gossipist Walter Winchell reported last week: "Mussolini's soldiers hope to retreat to Rome where they can be protected by the Vatican's Swiss Guards." Swiss Guards carry halberds. By an order of the peace-minded Supreme Pontiff last week the effective modern rifles of His Holiness' fur-helmeted Palatine Guards were replaced by 1840 muzzle-loaders which have been stored away in the Vatican for over half a century. If the Papal troops were ever military, they are now wholly demilitarized. Each muzzle-loader, now so rusty it would be hazardous to fire it, requires...
...motu proprio of the Supreme Pontiff permitted, for the first time in the recorded history of the Church, an alteration in the time of celebrating the High Mass usually performed at midnight Christmas Eve. In localities where a blackout is enforced His Holiness permitted this Mass to be celebrated as early as the afternoon of Dec. 24. Those who partake of the Host may do so, by exceptional Apostolic indulgence, after having fasted for four hours...
...pontiff apparently renounced any hope of a peace settlement in the immediate future, imploring Christians throughout the world to pray for God to intercede and aid the suffering...
...Witnesses' pontiff is rawboned, militant "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 70, who in 1896 accompanied William Jennings Bryan on his first Presidential campaign, who in 1930 startled the U. S. by deeding a California house, garage and two automobiles, in perpetuity, to await the reappearance on earth of King David, Gedeon, Barak. Samson and other Biblical worthies...
...motioned him up, restrained him from kissing the Ring of the Fisherman. At the head of the stairs, the Queen and Royal Princesses knelt, kissed the ring. Moving in meticulously arranged procession through the palace, the party ended up in the throne room, where for half an hour the Pontiff and royal family conversed alone. Then the Court entered and Pius XII made an address. Said...