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Next day, he went to the Vatican, called on Pope Pius. For more than an hour, in private audience the two reminisced about the days when they met in Warsaw, the Pontiff as Nuncio, Paderewski as Premier of Poland, both facing a situation black as the pit, from Pole to Pole...
Toward sundown, the stir hushed. All was ready and the imminence pressed to reveal itself. The doors of the Pontiff's apartment trembled, parted, delivered up a gorgeous procession led by a canopied sedan chair on the shoulders of twelve scarlet-clad sediarii. Down vast corridors, down wide steps into the Sistine Chapel moved the procession. There the canopied chair opened and Pope Pius XI stepped out, knelt, worshipped. Entering the chair again, he had himself carried on to the entrance to the great nave of St. Peter's, his followers lowers carrying candles and chanting liturgical verses...
Replied the Pope (Pius XI, master of pointed phrase): "When Politics come near the Altar, then Religion, the Church, the Pontiff have not only the right but the duty to give directions and indications to be followed by Catholics...
...Indeed, this Pontiff went further and declared: "It is an error to assert that every man is free to embrace the Religion he shall believe true, guided by the light of reason...
...Rome, Pope Pius offered a medal to that one of the Catholic Women's Diocesan Clubs that would evolve the most attractive modest fashion in women's clothing. The Clubs had inaugurated a campaign against immodest dress. The Pontiff's competition is divided into two parts: 1) a theoretic demonstration that immodest dress is silly, barbaric, uncultivated; 2) actual dress designs...