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...official censors of France and Italy approved the Legion. Through his Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli, Pope Pius XI made public a letter urging Catholics to make it "a duty of conscience" to improve the cinema, to film their own pictures if necessary...
...Houghton Mifflin, $3.50. Then ten days had to elapse between a Pope's death and the opening of the conclave. After Cardinal O'Connell's remonstrances Pope Pius XI decreed that hereafter 18 days of grace shall be allowed so that all Cardinals may arrive in time...
...Ferdinand whose assassination detonated the War; the heads of the great houses of Mens-dorff-Pouilly and Pallavicini ("Imperial Highness!"); and the new arrival's cousin, the Archduke Anton and his wife Princess Ileana of Rumania. For it was the best beloved of the archdukes, old Eugen Ferdinand Pius Bernard Felix Maria, grand master of the Teutonic Order, chevalier of the Orders of the Golden Fleece, the Black Eagle, the Seraphim, etc. And before his arrival in Vienna he had renounced nothing of his imperial heritage...
Last week, fortnight after his 48th birthday, the rumor spread insistently across Europe that at last Alfonso, still His Most Catholic Majesty to monarchists, was ready to ask Pope Pius XI for an annulment of his marriage to Victoria Eugenie. A twin rumor was that Alfonso proposed to renounce his rights to the Spanish throne in favor of his third son Prince Juan, now a cadet in the British Navy. Last week newshawks found a few of the Bourbon's "friends" who gravely agreed that "there is a foundation for the rumors." Vatican officials pointed out that the Pope...
Since he became Pope twelve years ago, Pius XI has never spent a night away from his chambers in the Vatican, third floor front. He has left Vatican City only half a dozen times since he gained his freedom by the Lateran Treaties in 1929. Last week it was announced that the Pope would presently leave for a two-month holiday in the Barberine Palace at Castel Gandolfo in the cool Alban Hills, 17 miles from Rome. There he will hold regular audiences, stroll through his vineyards and gardens, admire his cows in their spotless stalls, his chickens in their...