Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign of whispering and Heffling that the atmosphere has intangibly but perceptibly changed. If Jim Farley should run for President next year, the inevitable whispering about the Pope-in-the-White-House would more likely help than hurt him. This is the outward, political aspect of an inner, social change which Catholicism underwent in the U. S. during the reign of Achille Ratti. The country is still Protestant, but amid the deepening class cleavages of today, the Roman Catholic Church is recognized as a Gibraltar of conservatism, and respect for the constancy of its moral values has revived...
...until he was an old man did Louis Brandeis see an era where many men in power shared his penetrations and fears. A "liberal" Justice before the New Deal crystallized division of social & political thought on the Supreme Court, in his old age Brandeis moved from dissent to assent. But he was no "New Deal Justice." The core of his social philosophy was a distrust of all arrangements, public or private, that too heavily taxed human fallibility. His grave objection to NRA was vigorously made known to all his colleagues. He resented humanly the attack on age which Franklin Roosevelt...
...death of the Pope last week caused a lull in international war drummings, celebrations, diplomatic and social functions. Italy stopped its violent newspaper campaign against the European democracies for a whole three days, renewed it early this week with new vigor. Gracious comment on Pius' death in German newspapers was that he was a "political" Pope and the next one should...
...Embassy at Rome, although not accredited to the Vatican, went into mourning. Most foreign embassies and legations in Washington canceled scheduled social functions. One legation there not affected by the death was the Egyptian, which held a big reception in honor of the 19th birthday of King Farouk, a stanch Moslem...
Caesar v. God. Pius XI was "the Pope of Missions." He was also a "Pope of Saints," canonizing during his reign some of the most popular saints of modern times: St. Therese, St. Bernadette of Lourdes, St. Giovanni Bosco (a social service worker who had once been his friend), England's St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, North America's eight Martyrs. Yet the greatness of Pius XI derived less from his spiritual labors for the Kingdom of God than from his long, uncompromising battle against the pretensions of modern Caesars...