Word: romano
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...Ramon was sorry, if not humiliated, that his brother-in-law's caution prevented him from doing more for his important friends. One thing he could do: snub the Vatican, and he pointedly refrained from asking for an audience. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano as pointedly took note of the omission in a paragraph that was clearly a rebuke. But the Vatican can neither blockade Spain nor help her to recover Gibraltar...
...Church in Germany is indebted to German troops"-with the result that a pastoral letter was written to be read from all pulpits glorifying Hitler and his German troops, if & when the war is won. A further reference is made to the suspension of the official Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, and that the Vatican sought and found a "modus vivendi" with all powers except Russia...
Thus did the Vatican, which has sought & found a modus vivendi with every victorious power except atheistic Soviet Russia, move to align itself with the new order in Europe. In an equally significant gesture to the southern Axis partner it announced that the semi-official Vatican newsorgan Osservatore Romano would cease publication. Banned outside Vatican City by the Italian Government because it printed British war communiques, it has lost circulation as rapidly as it gained it last autumn, when Romans discovered its unique (in Italy) impartiality (TIME, May 27). Osservatore Romano will be replaced by a Jesuit-owned paper, Corriere...
Still elaborately neutral was Pope Pius himself, though Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, has lately found a good word for the totalitarian way of life, in marked contrast to its pro-Ally attitude in the months before Italy entered the war. Meanwhile the Holy See's endorsement of the Petain regime in France brought it minor benefits, such as the Carthusians' return to their Alpine eyrie, the Grande Chartreuse...
...Fascist State, nor to making Laval quite the Little Man that he was pictured by Cartoonist Herblock of the Pittsburgh Press. Friend of France with kind words for harassed Marshal Pétain was Catholic Monsignor Mark Boehm. Writing in Rome for the Vatican City newspaper, Osservatore Romano, Mgr. Boehm saw "the good Marshal" using an authoritarian regime to create "a civic conscience that opens and prepares the way for ... strengthening the moral conscience. . . ." Praise from the Vatican newspaper was the next best thing to a blessing by the Pope, but it sounded strange other than as a good-will...