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Pope Pius XI faced last week the approaching feast days of St. John, St. Peter and St. Paul. Was it possible to keep Italians from celebrating these great days with public processions? Would there be more religious mutinies against the Pontiff's order of no more parades during his conflict with Il Duce (TIME, June 22). Already three towns had defied the order, parading on St. Anthony's feast day fortnight ago. What...
...encyclical on Capital & Labor, issued last week in Vatican City. Fortnight ago a vague 2,000-word official summary was released (TIME, May 25). The actual words of His Holiness last week were fresh and vibrant, precise and bold. Most remarkable were those passages in which the Supreme Pontiff pronounced squarely upon three basic elements in the life of almost every human being: the corporation, the factory, the machine...
...Christian Socialism" Having thus clearly stated his own, advanced social views, the Supreme Pontiff was ready to answer the question whether a Catholic can be a Socialist. He did so thus: "This is a question which holds many minds in suspense; and many are the Catholics who, realizing clearly that Christian principles can never be either sacrificed or minimized, seem to be raising their eyes toward the Holy See, and earnestly beseeching us to decide whether or not . . . Socialism has retracted so far its false doctrines that it can now be accepted without the loss of any Christian principle...
...officiate. Well the Holy Father knew that at this wedding there would be present those two accursed agitators for the Royalist cause in France, Editor Leon Daudet of L'Action Française and his doughty fellow editor, Charles Maurras. If they were present as guests, declared the Supreme Pontiff in his final ultimatum to Monseigneur le Due de Guise, then no Cardinal could possibly officiate...
...TIME, Feb. 23, you say: "Devout Catholics fell to their knees at the radioed sound of the Pontiff's revered voice." I beg leave to differ. In the first place, I have known all sorts of Catholics: good, bad, ardent, and indifferent; American Catholics and Catholics of varied nationalities. Naturally, they all respect the Pope, but there is not a one of them, even the most pious, that would even dream of falling on their knees at the sound of the Pontiff's voice. I believe that this is true of the whole country. From what I have...