Word: popes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eugenio Cardinal Pacclli entered the Cardinals' conclave not as a cardinal but as a pope who was about to be crowned. His election to the papacy climaxes a career which was so regular and so certain in its unfolding that it almost seemed that Pacelli was fated to be Christ's Vicar on Earth. For from the moment when he was ordained, Pacelli never left the shadow of the Vatican: it was as if he was being familiarized with his destiny. And as Pope Pius XII he donned the triple crown which some said had been his for several years...
William F. Hanemann, of New York and St. Marks, was yesterday declared winner of the competition for Freshman Hockey Manager. The assistants chosen were John W. Strauss of New York and Milton, and Frederick Pope, Jr., of Wilton, Connecticut and St. Paul...
...voting begins, 62 thrones with violet baldachins (canopies) will line the walls. Twice a day, with solemn prayers and oaths that they are following their highest duties, the Cardinals will mark their ballots, place them one at a time in a chalice. When one of them is elected Pope (by a two-thirds majority), he expresses his acceptance (if he feels worthy; some do not), chooses a name, dons a white soutane. The Cardinals pay him homage. All the baldachins except that of the new Pontiff are folded back to the walls. To show the crowds outside that "a Pope...
...first time in history, the new Pope will be announced to the world by radio, over Vatican Station HVJ, probably before the crowds in St. Peter's Square hear...
...Last week in Rome there was a prodigious whispering and bustling of emissaries around Cardinals' palaces. And in the Rome-Berlin axis there was some clumsy public hinting to the forthcoming conclave. In Germany Das Schwarze Korps warned the four German Cardinals against voting for an anti-Nazi Pope. Even less tactful was German Ambassador to the Vatican Carl-Ludwig Diego von Bergen, who, while conveying to the College of Cardinals the condolences of the diplomatic corps, told them: "We are assisting at the elaboration of a new world, which wants to raise itself upon the ruins...