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...Rome Pope Pius XI was even more strongly of the same opinion. Roundly declared His Holiness: "The physical and material impossibility of war in the present actual grave circumstances appears manifest...
...crowd up to frenzy with attacks on the Papacy "for actively cooperating to encircle Germany in 1914 and provoke the World War!" This villainy Orator Schneider, who occasionally got his Popes and their characteristics mixed in the torrent of his harangue, seemed to attribute chiefly to peace-loving Pius X. Shouts of "Traitor!" and "Expel him!" filled the beer hall when Cardinal Faulhaber of Munich was accused by Lawyer Schneider of permitting anti-Nazi sermons by German prelates to be translated into French, "after which they can be used against us by the French...
Though Pope Pius XI owns a helicopter, Vatican City is too small (109 acres) and crowded to permit the landing of other aircraft. Last week a truck brought into his little realm its first airplane. The Holy Father promptly walked out to peer at it through his thick spectacles, observe on its side the name of his predecessor: SANCTUS PETRUS. The plane, as Pius XI was gratefully aware, was the gift of a recently-formed German organization, the Missions Verkehrs Arbeit Gemeinschaft ("Mission Traffic Aid Society"). Founded by a onetime army aviator named Rev. Paul Schulte who now belongs...
Last week many a Madame of the Sacred Heart felt piously proud. In Vatican City the Congregation of Sacred Rites met before Pope Pius XI, voted to beatify Mother Philippine Duchesne, founder of the U. S. branch of the Order. Now to be titled "Blessed," this pioneer Madame thus passed the second milestone on the road to sainthood, which she will eventually attain if two miracles are henceforth performed in response to prayers addressed through...
...pontifical Latin, prepared for him, as always, by his Congregation for Latin Letters, Pope Pius XI last week solemnly flayed Nudism. Speaking before Lenten preachers on the eve of Ash Wednesday, he declared...