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Same day in Vatican City the Osservatore Romano, official newsorgan of the Holy See, declared that the recent "blood purge" and "unheard of cruelties" of Adolf Hitler were the direct result of Nazi pagan teaching. "It is incredible and shocking that final religious solace was denied to the men doomed," declared Osservatore. "A drop of liquor and a cigaret were not refused, yet Christ was denied to these unfortunate Germans. How sad their agony must have been. It is unheard of and terrifying to refuse to souls their supreme comfort: God's forgiveness. For the essence of Christianity...
...summers ago in the quiet of his mountain lodge Organist Yon felt inspired to tell in music the story of the Irish Saint for whom his Cathedral was named. Back in New York he commissioned a libretto from Armando Romano, an editor of Il Progresso. Last week, thanks to Humbert Fugazy and Bart Manfredi, two devout Roman Catholic prizefight promoters who furnished the necessary backing, New York heard the world premiere of The Triumph of St. Patrick...
Comrade Litvinoff landed at Naples with a shout: "Here we are! The trip from America was grand!" On the train to Rome he flipped through the Papal daily Osservatore Romano which headlined CANNIBALISM IN RUSSIA and asserted the Russian people's "disillusionment and utter disinclination to work under the Communist regime." In Rome the roly-poly Red was received in private audience by His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele III and held a series of conferences with Premier Mussolini at which they secretly discussed disarmament and the Japanese trade menace before Comrade Litvinoff entrained for Moscowr...
...insisting that Russia reaffirm the religious rights of foreigners in the Soviet Union, had paved the way for a rapprochement be tween Moscow and the Vatican. "About that," he twinkled, "I do not want to make propaganda." With asperity in Vatican City the Papal newsorgan L'Osservatore Romano last week declared that Comrade Litvinoff's pledges to President Roosevelt on the freedom of religious practice in U. S. S. R. are not only worthless but "clearly mean ingless...
...Mussolini, and Il Papa, Pius XI, are in close harmony (see above). On the subject of Fascism, either black or brown shirted. they are not. Last week, with the German Catholic Centrist party fighting for its life at Adolf Hitler's polls, the Papal daily L'Osservatore Romano deplored the thrusting aside of German Democracy by German Fascism...