Word: popes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vatican, issued a statement over the radio that "Father Coughlin is not authorized to speak for the Catholic Church, nor does he represent the doctrine or sentiments of the Church." Retorted Father Coughlin: "No priest . . . no bishop . . . and no Cardinal speaks for the whole Church. Only the Pope speaks for the Church...
Among the honorary pall-bearers will be: President Lowell, Maurice J. Tobin, Mayor of Boston, Leverett Saltonstall, Governor-elect, James Ford, associate professor of Social Ethics, Edward K. Rand, Pope Professor of Latin, and Gustavus B. Maynadier, assistant professor of English emeritus...
...have all your Hulls, Welles, Chamberlains, Hitlers, Mussolinis et al., you want-as for me give me: Pope Pius...
Last week in Vatican City the 81-year-old Pope suffered three heart attacks, was given Extreme Unction, then rallied and was announced ready to resume his "normal" life. He was not to die, however, before the U. S. hierarchy, acting upon his charge, aligned the Catholic Church as a supporter of U. S. democracy...
Before falling ill last week the Pope turned his attention to another democratic nation, England. He appointed Monsignor William Godfrey, rector of the English College in Rome, to be Apostolic Delegate in Great Britain-the first representative of the Pope in Protestant Great Britain since the 16th Century. Not a diplomatic official like a Papal Nuncio, an Apostolic Delegate acts as liaison between the Vatican and the Catholic hierarchy of a nation. Monsignor Godfrey will have access to the British Foreign Office, may well be able to report to the Pope, at firsthand, on Britain's dealings with Germany...