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...before the recent Italo-Papal Treaty, Concordat and Financial Agreement was signed (TIME, Feb. 18). Such was the iron efficacy of Dictator Benito Mussolini's censorship that the Italian press had not yet printed a single word of what was to occur. None the less the Pontiff's niece, like everyone else, had heard rumors, and she asked...
...positively affirmed that after a further attempt had been made to penetrate the Pontiff's reserve, he sternly exclaimed...
...news," Count Dalla Torre explained in a signed editorial that the Holy See's reconciliation with the Italian State was "entirely religious." It is believed in Rome that Count Dalla Torre never signs an editorial until it has been read and at least tacitly approved by the Supreme Pontiff. The Count is aware that the "entirely religious" Italo-Papal settlement is replete with references to specific plots of real estate, and is supplemented by a Financial Convention whereby the Holy See receives from the Italian State...
...later the Pope, who claims world-wide spiritual dominion, will visit every part of the globe, America not excepted, of course. The imagination is staggered when one comes to think of what will happen when a Pope sets foot in New York. I do not say that the present Pontiff will attempt it, although, personally, I am sure, he is willing enough. But the day will come...
...came as the lord spiritual, and for the first time since 1870 as the lord temporal. "Il Papa! Il Papa Consolatore!" chanted the kneeling multitude, "The Pope! The Pope Consoler!" Amid out bursts of the purest ecstasy the supreme pontiff then performed the miracle of the high mass, transforming things inanimate into the veritable body and blood...