Word: romane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian secret police three weeks ago arrested Professor Guido Gomella, editorial writer for the semi-official Vatican City daily, Osservatore Romano, apparently because he wrote a series of articles impartial toward Britain and France. By last week the Roman circulation of impartial Osservatore Romano had jumped from 40,000 in August...
...bustling yet other-worldly order are the Roman Catholic Little Sisters of the Poor. Familiar sights in many a U. S. city are the sisters, with their black habits, white starched caps tied under the chin. For sweet charity, to care for the aged poor who are their charges, the Little Sisters patiently make a nuisance of themselves by begging their way through shops, offices, the streets. They have been at it for 100 years, since their founder, Jeanne Jugan, joined with three friends to beg bread for some aged pensioners in the Breton village of St. Servan...
...whole frontier fortification is called Siegfried. Adolf Hitler named the part which faces France the Limes, for Limes Germanicus, the old Roman wall and earthworks that ran along the same position. But Limes Germanicus was built against the Germans, to keep the Teuton barbarians out of the Roman Empire...
...Among other U. S. members of the group: John R. Mott, Foreign Relations Expert John Foster Dulles, Professor Georgia E. Harkness of Mount Holyoke College, Professor Charles G. Fenwick of Bryn Mawr (Roman Catholic internationalist, present as a technical adviser...
...greatest, most tragic failure of the Christian Church in modern times was that it was unable to halt the slow march of Christendom toward World War II. The World Council of Churches, a federation of the greatest non-Roman communions, was born too late to help; it is not even yet operating officially. Unofficially, the Council last July summoned a "board of strategy" of 32 men and two women to meet in a Swiss hotel, draw up a program of Christian international strategy. A long statement of their views was published last week in The Christian Century, with an introduction...