Word: romano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pope John XXIII, who bestowed upon him the diamond-studded collar of the Supreme Order of Christ, the highest Vatican order, which only a dozen people have received since John XXII gave out the first one in 1319. "To find such a figure," glowed the Vatican's Osservatore Romano about De Gaulle, "one would have to go back to Charlemagne...
...fondness for inviting old friends to dinner. "I tried to keep to the tradition," he told one intimate, "but it didn't last eight days. After all, nothing in Scripture says that I have to eat alone." The ultra-conservative editors of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano have even been known to censor what they consider an unseemly papal frankness. When, on a precedent-breaking visit to Rome's Queen of Heaven prison, John told the jailbirds that "one of my relatives who was out hunting without a license was caught by the carabinieri and sent...
...technical" reasons, said the Vatican's Osservatore Romano last week, the Holy See has withdrawn diplomatic privileges from the envoys of the Polish and Lithuanian pre-war governments. Henceforth, the dean of the Vatican diplomatic corps, Casimir Papee, Ambassador from the Polish government in exile, and Stanislaus Girdvainis. minister from Lithuania before Russia annexed that country in 1940, will probably serve as chargés d'affaires. But no matter how technical the reasons, insiders in Rome buzzed with speculation that the move signaled a new phase of diplomatic relations between Vatican and Kremlin...
...clothing save a pair of black lace panties-Haisch Nanah, 24, turned U.S. Socialite Peter Howard's birthday party for an Italian countess into haischish. Luckily, the poliziotti showed up before the 200 guests could succumb to Roman fever. Said the Vatican's L'Osservatort-Romano next day: "The lice of society...
...Instructed Count Giuseppe della Torre, director of the Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano, to eliminate honorific phrases about the Pope, e.g., "The Highest Pontiff," "The Illuminated Holy Father," "As we gathered from the august lips." Said John: "It would be much better if you simply said 'The Pope has done this' and 'The Pontiff has said that...