Word: romano
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...appealed to the Catholic hierarchy to remonstrate with the Rightists, all of whose leaders are Catholic, about bombing civilians. At Vatican City last week it was officially announced that Pope Pius has already done so "on his own initiative." Reported the semi-official papal newsorgan L'Osservatore Romano: "General Franco appeared to have been touched by the paternal interest of the Holy Father in the innocent victims of the war and sent to the Holy Father filial and reassuring explanations and declarations...
...Oxford Group has been that it works equally well in the framework of any Christian church-not excluding the Roman Catholic. Sympathetic accounts of the Group's work have appeared in the Catholic Times in England, the Catholic World in the U. S. L'Osser- vatore Romano, semi-official newsorgan of the Holy See, once ran a letter guardedly praising Buchmanite aims. One of the prettiest Buchmanites extant, Baroness Connie de Hahn of Budapest, used to say at European meetings: "I was brought up a Roman Catholic, and being changed has made me a much better Roman Catholic...
...approached. General Manuel Contreras shouted: "Justice will be meted out to this prisoner! Justice will be meted out to this prisoner!" but the crowd swept on. A volley crashed out over their heads, then another straight at the leaders. The crowd broke. Dead in the gutter lay Romano Maldonado, 8; Salvadore Vasquez, 14; Vidal Torres, 56. Fourteen others lay wounded...
Italian papers referred for the first time last week to the passo romano or Roman step, said it is done "by keeping the leg rigid and striking the foot violently against the ground...
...week in Rome it was done by 2,000 Black Shirts before Il Duce. The active Dictator became so elated that he jumped down from the reviewing stand, placed himself and his entire staff at the head of the 2,000 Black Shirts, led them swiftly in the passo romano clear across the parade ground...