Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare foray beyond the Vatican's walls, Pope Pius XII journeyed a short distance in Rome, appeared at the sooth anniversary celebration of the Collegio Capranica, a small but distinguished seminary (world's oldest) where he was a young student 62 years ago. His Holiness kissed the feet of an old familiar crucifix, inspected the tiny room he once occupied, presented the college with a pearl-encrust ed chalice as a quincentennial present...
Advertising men with Trendex troubles, placement problems or sagging sales now have somebody up there who likes them; the Vatican last week named St. Bernardino of Siena as patron saint of advertisers...
...Strict Observance at 24, spent 30 years inspiring crowds all over Italy with his oratory. His dynamic and holy hard sell frequently persuaded gamblers to throw away their dice and tear up their cards. Famed for his preaching, St. Bernardino nevertheless re fused three bishoprics; such modesty, one Vatican monsignor slyly suggested last week, especially recommended him to advertisers. Another fact might recommend him even more warmly. Once, when a playing-card maker complained that Bernardino's antigambling crusade was ruining his business, the saint suggested that he switch to making cards bearing the Greek monogram of Jesus Christ...
Predictably, the most vocal opponents of French participation in the Common Market were the Communists (who dismissed the whole thing as a "Vatican conspiracy") and the right wing led by ex-Premiers Antoine Pinay, Paul Reynaud, Edgar Faure and Joseph Laniel. The bitterest-and most surprising-attack was delivered by ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France, the man who once talked boldly of "opening the windows" of the French economy. Now Mendes, whose political influence has greatly diminished, argued that opening the windows so high would drive out French capital and bring in unemployed...
During the past year, the Vatican announced, the 80-year-old Pope received a million people in audiences, delivered more than 200 major speeches and radio addresses, not to mention minor messages and talks. His visitors comprised all sorts, conditions and faiths. Before 700 gynecologists the Pope discussed painless childbirth; he lectured racing drivers and members of an Italian automobile club on politeness; he received Germany's Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Otto Dibelius and U.S. Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss, the workers of Lombardy, the Roman nobility, 360 U.S. servicemen from NATO, and officials of the U.N. Office of Public...