Word: popes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would probably put France in a bargaining mood.) He was willing to discuss the plight of the Jews with other powers, but to send none to Ethiopia. He amiably reaffirmed the Anglo-Italian friendship pledge of 1938. Net: zero. To underscore the zero Mr. Chamberlain also called on the Pope...
...President Roosevelt, who regards the Roman Catholic Church as a potential ally in fighting democracy's battle, maintains contact with Pope Pius XI through the New Deal's good friend, George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago-who might very well become Papal Nuncio to the U. S. should diplomatic relations be re-established with the Vatican. Last fortnight there was further evidence of the new collaboration between the Church and the U. S. in the departure for South America of two able representatives of the U. S. Catholic hierarchy - Bishop James Hugh Ryan of Omaha and Rev. Dr. Maurice...
...Catholic University; that he appointed Roman Catholic Frank Murphy, Governor-reject of Michigan, to be his Attorney General (see col. 3); that the Pan-American Conference at Lima, so largely the creature of Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, was praised last week by L'Osservatore Romano, the Pope's daily, after the totalitarian press had belittled it. The significance of these things, planned or unplanned, was that events appeared to be rapidly creating a community of interest between democracies and the Vatican...
...more Roman Catholic than Franklin Roosevelt are Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax who, when they go to Italy this month, are reported planning to visit the Pope and to entertain the Cardinals at the British legation in Vatican City. They know, as does the U. S. State Department, that if the democracies are obliged to set up a bloc to protect their interests from fascist encroachments, the Roman Catholic Church may be a useful ally, not only as a powerful church but as a temporal state with one of the ablest diplomatic corps...
...religion, the two outstanding figures of 1938 were in sharp contrast save for their opposition to Adolf Hitler. One of them, Pope Pius XI, 81, spoke with "bitter sadness" of Italy's anti-Semitic laws, the harrying of Italian Catholic Action groups, the reception Mussolini gave Hitler last May, declared sadly: "We have offered our now old life for the peace and prosperity of peoples. We offer it anew." By spending most of the year in a concentration camp, Protestant Pastor Martin Niemoller gave courageous witness to his faith...