Word: popes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew, it encountered opposition. Plump Maria Theresa of Austria, a doting and jealous wife, had her husband's Masonic lodge raided because she was sure that her philandering Francis was up to no good. More effective opposition came from the Catholic Church. Pope Clement XII, in 1738, issued a papal edict denouncing Masonry as a trespass on the church's spiritual and moral domain. Rome's opposition to Masonry has been unceasing. The church, which excommunicated all Communists last week, has been excommunicating Masons for 200 years...
Joseph Stalin once asked a scornful question: "How many divisions has the Pope?" An answer was prepared last week. Pius XII decreed excommunication for Roman Catholics who "knowingly and freely . . . defend and spread Communism." Those Catholics who "enlist in or show favor to the Communist Party" and those who "publish, read or disseminate" Communist publications would be denied the sacraments...
...with the conscious modesty of a great man. He says: "A child of three can do what I do-with 30 years' practice." Dunninger, 53, has been on the boards for 35 years. He has mystified six U.S. Presidents the Duke of Windsor, Steinmetz, Thomas Edison, and the Pope (who, Dunninger reports, gave him a few bad moments by thinking in Latin...
...Pope Pius XII's step was springy and he mounted his throne with more than usual vigor. To thin, 87-year-old Msgr. Alfonso Carinci, Deacon of Protonotaries, he handed a brilliantly illuminated parchment manuscript-the papal bull* which proclaimed 1950 a Holy Year of pilgrimage to Rome. Then, with his face almost constantly lighted by smiles, he spoke to the mauve-robed Apostolic Protonotaries assembled before him, in the most optimistic terms he had used since before...
...might be the "movers and shakers, in the narrow sense of power. But they are not the men who rule the world . . ." Lerner, perhaps confusing influence with power, made his own list of the 25 who "really rule the world . . . the political, intellectual, and moral rulers . . .": Stalin, Churchill, Nehru, Pope Pius, Weizmann, Mao Tse-tung, Tito; and Physicist Albert Einstein, Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Scrtre and William Faulkner; Theologians Jacques Maritain, Karl...