Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti (Pope Pius XI) announced last week that, in view of the Mexican crisis, he would postpone his vacation. As everyone knows, the Sanctissimus Pater, goes vacationing each year, despite his self-imposed "imprisonment," by moving out from the stuffy Vatican to his cool Casino in the Vatican Gardens. During the week Bishop Diaz of Tabasco, Mexico, displayed to newsgatherers a communication from the Papal Secretary of State, Pietró Cardinal Gasparri, conveying the displeasure of His Holiness with the Mexican Constitution and President Calles' enforcement statutes: "The Holy See condemns these laws (TIME, July...
...sullenness among Vatican laborers, which recent visitors have noted with wonder, may disappear. His Holiness last week granted their demands for more wages, will give them five times what they earned before the War. But, from October on, they must work six hours daily, instead of their usual three...
...everyone knows, the great schism of Fascismo concerns the efforts of former Secretary-General of the Fascist Party Roberto Farinacci to avenge his displacement from that post through the influence of Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni, "the Vatican's softspeaker." (TIME, July 12 et ante...
...build my church. . . . Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven."* (MATTHEW XVI: 18, 19.) Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, successor to the authority of Peter, brooded last week at 'the Vatican upon what forces he should loose against Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico, arch foe and suppressor of non-Mexican-born clericals of every creed (TIME, August 2, et ante). His Holiness may have reflected that the Roman Catholic Church has withstood down the ages onslaughts from the civil power...
...Vatican Strike. Forty Vatican gardeners went on a, 24-hour strike last week to "demonstrate" that their daily wage of 14 lire ($.50) for nine hours work is too little for existence. The Vatican, free of Fascist suzerainty, is now the only Italian spot where strikes are not illegal...