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Pope. Benediction was imparted to all Chinese, last week, by Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, the Most Blessed and Supreme Pontiff Pius...
...face the late, fundamentalist, teetotaling William Jennings Bryan, strode into the Vatican, last week, and climbed beamingly upstairs for a two-hour audience with The Most Blessed Father, Achilla Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XL The man from Mexico, Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, handed solemnly to the Supreme Pontiff a voluminous report signed by the dignitaries of the Mexican Episcopate, who are now in exile at San Antonio, Texas. The report states, as Archbishop Ruiz later revealed, that there has never been a more favorable time than the present to harmonize the strained relationship between the Roman Catholic Church...
...Ambrose Church, in Detroit, received a severe surprise. Father Foley, their assistant pastor, surveyed them with a stern glance and said that in the future no woman who had paint upon her lips would be given holy communion from his hands. In sombre terms, such as his Pontiff recently used to condemn similar lapses in female behavior (TIME, May 14), Father Foley characterized the use of lipstick: "This practice is irreverent and unbecoming and I will not countenance...
These were the mournful words which Pope Pius XI wrote in an open letter to Cardinal Pompili, vicar of the Rome diocese, apropos of a "gymnastic" competition which was held in that city last week. The Pontiff proceeded to explain that he was not, in principle, opposed to athletics but that when competitions became too exhibitionistic, he felt compelled to frown. Governmental circles in Rome regarded the Pope's letter as another manifestation of the Vatican's opposition to what the Pope calls "Fascist monopolization of the education of youth." At the end of his document the Pontiff...
...words of the Pope do not affect the Roman Question . . . [but Catholics must remember] that it is the prerogative of the Pontiff alone to deal with this...