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...Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church...
...always the Supreme Pontiff who intervenes and negotiates in the fullness of the sovereignty of the Catholic Church, which he does not represent but personifies by direct Divine mandate. It is not, therefore, the Catholic organization in Italy which would be subject to the sovereignty of the State but the Pontiff himself, the supreme authority of the Church. ... If there were the least animosity and bitterness in our soul we would say that these not infrequent expressions of no renunciation, of no concession from the State to the Church offend...
...abodes of the Vatican Palace are ancient, convolved, mysterious. So darkly rooted is the Papal tradition of secrecy that only last week was the United Press able to report an accident which occurred in hushed Vatican precincts some seven months ago, and is thought to have influenced the Pontiff's recent decision to sell the last of his horses...
...excitement awakened the sleeper, who cried out as he arose: "No, no, I am not the Pontiff! Deny it! Deny...
...urging their flocks to do likewise, in protest against the Government's suppression of the Pope's temporal power in 1870. Recently, however, Il Duce has restored a mite of earthly authority to Il Papa (TIME, Feb. 18), and last week purring cinema machines proved how mountainous is the Pontiff's gratitude to the Dictator. Especially vivid and stirring were the footages showing Cardinal La Fontaine, Patriarch of Venice; Cardinal Gamba, Archbishop of Turin; and Cardinal Mam, Archbishop of Pisa, all of whom proceeded directly from the cele- bration of High Mass to vote at the head of their clergy...