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...last week was nobly troubled, and so were the best of His Majesty's subjects. No English gentleman who has been taught with the rough end of a strap to write Latin verse at Eton ever thinks of Eternal Rome with other than profound cultural respect, and Pope Pius XI was probably right in thinking last week that the last place on which British bombs will ever fall is the City of the Caesars. All the same, Kaiser Wilhelm II became a "beastly Hun" for some years to his cousin George V, and Benito Mussolini was rapidly becoming even...
Religious Editor McDowell wrote her throbbing account of her audience with Pope Pius XI for the Catholic News, for Catholic consumption...
Much in the thoughts of Pope Pius XI last week were the 200,000 U. S. Roman Catholics gathered in Cleveland for the 7th National Eucharistic Congress (TIME, Sept. 30). In Public Auditorium and Municipal Stadium the pilgrims and Clevelanders attended mass after mass, went in throngs to confess their sins in 14 languages. They listened to speech after speech on such familiar Catholic themes as the wickedness of Communism and Birth Control...
...their ranks into a reproduction of a great monstrance (altar vessel to hold the sacred Host). Followed benediction of the Blessed Sacrament by Cardinal Hayes, which was preceded by a radio broadcast by the Pope, speaking in rapid, inaudible Latin and frequently fading out entirely. Later, Catholics learned that Pius XI had said...
...body of the Monstrance, people who in turn would be surrounded by the Stadium's capacity? 200.000. At some time during this closing ceremony in honor of which the Cleveland Indians called off the day's baseball game, loudspeakers were to bring to the Stadium the voice of Pope Pius XI, broadcasting his blessings from Castel Gandolfo...