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...four-day meeting in New Orleans were most of the U. S. hierarchy, thousands of priests and laity. The weather was persistently bad. Once the rain poured down during an open-air mass which could not be interrupted, and which ended with a blessing broadcast from Castel Gandolfo by Pope Pius...
...Fascists thought that by muzzling Catholic Action they had washed up ''any conflict or dissension between State and Church"-Mussolini's spokesman Virginio Gayda immediately so declared-they were sadly mistaken. On Sunday the Pope walked alone out of his summer villa at Castel Gandolfo (something he had never done before), delivered a vigorous impromptu address to missionary students summering nearby. Said he: "Beware of exaggerated nationalism as of a real curse. ... It is a real curse of divisions, of strife almost amounting...
Until last fortnight only the semi-official Papal newspaper, Osservatore Romano, had dealt with Italy's burgeoning racism. Twice thereafter, however, Pope Pius XI himself spoke publicly against it. Last week the aging Holy Father, in a speech to Catholic seminarians visiting him at Castel Gandolfo, summed it up in the most vigorous words he has uttered for years. Pounding home his recently-repeated point that "Catholic means universal," the Pope said: "We regard racism and exaggerated nationalism as barriers raised between man and man, between people and people, between nation and nation. ... All men are, above all, members...
...time Adolf Hitler arrived in Rome last week (see p. 22), His Holiness Pope Pius XI had retreated from the comforts of the Vatican and gone to his unheated palace at Castel Gandolfo, which he does not usually visit until definitely warm weather has arrived. The Pope was represented as displeased because the Führer had not requested an audience. To pilgrims at Castel Gandolfo the Holy Father said that it was sad that "on the feast day of the Holy Cross of Christ the banners of another cross [the swastika], which certainly is not that of Christ, should...
After celebrating Mass on the Feast of the Assumption, Pope Pius XI motored through the gardens of his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, then got out of his auto and walked about for several minutes. It was his longest walk this year...