Word: xii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their partisans - to Roman society, "Blacks" as opposed to the "Whites" of the Court - would no more have thought of visiting the Quirinal than of going to a Methodist prayer meeting. Until last week. Then, as part of a beautifully staged "reconsecration" of the Lateran Treaties, Pope Pius XII paid a history-making call on the present tenants of the Quirinal...
...Pope Pius XII, Mr. Roosevelt wrote: "I take heart in remembering that in a similar time, Isaiah first prophesied the birth of Christ. Then, several centuries before His coming, the condition of the world was not unlike that which we see today. Then, as now, a conflagration had been set; and nations walked dangerously in the light of the fires they had themselves kindled...
...fliers bombed Russian troop concentrations and supply lines for the Karelian Isthmus. They also raided the captured border village of Terijoki, where Red Finns had set up a "People's Government" and equipped a "People's Army" with uniforms from the reign of Sweden's Charles XII (1697-1718) filched from a museum...
...Secondly, the election of Cardinal Pacelli as Pius XII convinced me that there is only one moral authority left in the world and that is the Papacy...
...radio orators, and one of the most astute of Catholic minds. Before baptizing Broun, he instructed him in the faith for ten weeks. Before Broun died last fortnight, Monsignor Sheen administered to him the Church's last rites, and gave him a special blessing from Pope Pius XII. Heywood Broun, voluble to his friends on all other subjects, never talked much about Catholicism. To mourners at the funeral, Monsignor Sheen's address - which he called "The Biography of a Soul" - was a lofty revelation. But to some of Broun's friends, Monsignor Sheen's eulogy, with...