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Last October Italy's Queen Elena passed the 40th anniversary of her marriage to King Vittorio Emanuele III and in honor of that event last month the papal Osservatore Romano, referring to her for the first time as Empress of Ethiopia, announced that Elena would receive this year's Golden Rose. Last Sunday a sheaf of gold blooms in a silver vase was brought into the Pope's apartment, placed upon a candlelit table. Vested in rose garments, Pius XI prayed over the Rose, incensed it, poured balsam and musk into a tiny cup in its centre...
Since Dictator Mussolini has solved the Roman Question, has established friendly relations between the Papacy and the Italian Royal Family, it became sick Pope Pius to make some gracious comment. Declared L'Osservatore Romano, semiofficial Vatican organ: "God has given his sign...
Similarly in another instance the X-ray shadowgraphs probed beneath the surface of a sentimental and flat painting of a "Madonna and Child" attributed to the 15th century Italian, Antonazzo Romano, and discovered underneath it a much more forceful painting. When an accurate copy has been made of the outer painting, or when a colour photograph has been taken, the Fogg technical staff plans to clean off the outer layers of paint and reveal the original and more important work...
When a newshawk asked whether Father Coughlin would get a "second rebuke" like the recent editorial in the semi-official Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano (TIME, Sept. 14), Bishop Gallagher angrily pounded his old fist on his desk, snorted: "The Osservatore Romano has no authority over me. As for all these reports from Vatican City, the officials there told me 'we never give out interviews.' There never was a rebuke from the Vatican to Father Coughlin...
...Osservatore Romano editorial which Bishop Gallagher had waved aside as "unimportant" had also been ordered by the Vatican, declared Director Castelli, who added: "I understand that the Apostolic Delegate to Washington [Archbishop Cicognani] has been instructed to watch Father Coughlin's future activities...