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...Castel Gandolfo, papal summer palace sat a weary, unhappy old man one day last week, gazing slowly at astronomical photographs handed to him by Rev. Giovanni Stein, director of the Vatican Observatory. Said Pope Pius XI: "If things on earth go badly, at least those in the heavens must necessarily continue well...
...slaying, sacking and burning in Spain reached such extravagant proportions last week that the Supreme Pontiff, His Holiness Pope Pius XI was moved to declare at Castel Gandolfo: "We are profoundly grieved and deeply moved by the wave of criminal madness which has broken over Spain...
Bishop Gallagher, last week after a twelve-minute audience with Pope Pius XI at Castel Gandolfo: "The Pope did not mention Father Coughlin. . . . The Holy Father hopes . . . that America . . . may decide her controversial questions by ballots and not by bullets...
...Supreme Pontiff's intimates lately told newshawks that despite their advice Pius XI tires himself by talking at length with pilgrims, sometimes repeating the same idea over & over in different words. On his birthday, instead of speaking in French or Italian as he usually does, he addressed visitors in Latin, making mistakes which could be attributed only to fatigue. According to Rome Correspondent Sonia Tomara of the New York Herald Tribune, release of the papal encyclical on the cinema, longest ever issued to the U. S. hierarchy, was hastened last week before a breakdown of the Pope...
Last week they were undeceived. In the longest encyclical he has ever addressed primarily to the archbishops and bishops of the U. S., Pope Pius XI roundly flayed the U. S. motion picture industry, congratulated the Legion of Decency on improving it slightly and advocated reviewing boards in every country in the world to list the cinemas fit for Roman Catholic consumption...