Word: canossa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again the church and state are found in keen opposition. First in the Middle Ages one remembers King Henry, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, on his knees before the head of the Catholic church at Canossa beseeching him for peace. Then in Italy one pictures his holiness retiring into the Vatican forever before the victorious forces of the temporal lord. Now again in Italy again the head of the greatest Christian church is opposed by the state, this time in the person of the most powerful ruler that Italy ever...
...perfectly useless for a present-day Pope to act like a Pope of the earlier days and expect a second Canossa" (i. e. expect that George V will do penance before Pope Pius XI as Roman Emperor Henry IV did penance before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa, Italy...