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...eagle represents the U. S.; the lion, Great Britain; the cock, France; so the lamb is one of the animals symbolically peculiar to the Papal State. Last week, in one of the prettiest ceremonies of the Catholic Church, two very special lambs received the very special blessing of His Holiness Pope Pius...
Holiest of the lambs of Rome are those that frisk and bleat on the meadows of the Church of St. Agnes the Martyr, far out on the Via Nomentana. It is their special duty to sprout the wool that is woven into pallia for Papal bestowal on Cardinals, Patriarchs and Archbishops.* On the feast of St. Agnes last week, two of the most docile of the lambs of St. Agnes were carefully washed with finest soap, garlanded with flowers, trussed together with ribbons, laid in a grass-lined basket, carried to the Vatican...
...diamond-shaped loop of lamb's wool "three fingers broad" embroidered with six purple crosses, is worn over the chasuble as a symbol of the secular authority delegated by the Holy See. Originally peculiar to the Pope, it is now given to cardinals and archbishops as the highest papal honor. As Archbishop Ratti, Pope Pius XI received the pallium for his work in Poland. Two to receive pallia a month ago were Cardinals Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon, and Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...
...militancy of the church was manifest when watchful Papal gendarmes caught Giuseppe de Palois with the goods and the whalebone, announced him to the world as the first thief arrested in the new Papal State (TIME...
...press clean, constructive and, of course, subservient. Every Fascist also knows that the only thing which keeps the Pope off the front page in Italy and puts him among the quack nostrum and miscellaneous columns is a recent, quasi-secret order from Il Duce. Moreover, of all recent papal utterances, the encyclical on Education was most explicitly the sort of thing Il Duce will not countenance. In effect the Supreme Pontiff laid down the rule that the three agencies which ought to be charged with the education of the young are, in descending order of importance: 1) the Church...