Word: concordats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centuries and millenniums. The Vatican's long-range purpose is its timeless spiritual mission. Its immediate concern is the welfare of 331,500,000 followers. The layman has seen it bend to temporary expediency. But, as in its disagreement with Nazi Germany over the meaning of the 1933 Concordat, the Vatican has never been known to surrender rights it considers basic: to educate the youth, guide the family, govern the bishops...
Since Franco now has the kind of concordat he long wanted-which the Vatican long refused to grant him-and last month picked the new Primate of Spain, his relationship with the Vatican has been much more cordial. A further indication of this came last week when Rome heard reports that the new Primate, Archbishop Enrique Pla y Daniel of Toledo, would be made a cardinal before the year's end. If so, his will be the first red hat Pope Pius XII has bestowed...
Died. Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, 76, Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church; in Vatican City. He succeeded Pius XI as Papal Nuncio to Poland (1921-27), negotiated the Concordat between the Vatican and the Polish Republic...
...Government, and religious orders including the Jesuits have had their expropriated property restored. But the relationship is not wholly happy, for Franco and the Vatican are deadlocked over his demand for the same veto power on the investiture of bishops that the monarchy exercised under the 1851 Concordat. As a result, nearly half the sees are vacant, and Spain has had no primate since Isidore Goma y Tomas, Archbishop of Toledo, died last year...
Shortly after he got his Concordat, Hitler got the Protestant Reichsbishop he wanted. In the spring of 1933 Germany's Protestants (Lutheran. Reformed) voluntarily merged into the German Evangelical Church. To head it, the Nazis nominated Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller. a friend of Hitler and leader of the Nazified Deutsche Christen (the "German Christians...