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...Pope Pius XI smiled last week and back to Annam in French Indo-China, to little Marie Nguyen Hu Hao, 18, Chinese Catholic betrothed to Bao Dai. Buddhist Emperor of Annam, went tidings of comfort and joy. Marie's question to the Holy Father: "Would the Church sponsor her Buddhist-Catholic marriage if she gave her girl children to the Church, her boy children to the Buddhist dynasty of Annam" (TIME, March 19)? The Pope's answer, announced unofficially from Rome by way of Paris...
...Peter's was alight, packed with pilgrims from all nations including many a white-bonneted nun. Cardinals Verdier of Paris and Lienart of Lille, and Mrs. Bruno Benziger, wife of a Manhattan publisher, who was there as official representative of the New York Ladies of Charity. Pope Pius XI was borne in, amid cheers, on his high scdia gcstatoria. Gravely he presided over the lengthy canonization ceremony. Then in reply to thrice-repeated petitions the Holy Father pronounced: "Decernimus et definimus. . , . We decree and define that Blessed Louise de Marillac, widow of Antoine le Gras, is a saint...
...partnership in a wholesale paper house, finally became president of the Bank of Wisconsin. After his bank was absorbed by the Wisconsin Bankshares Corp., he retired to public life. For his good works in the Catholic Church he was knighted and awarded the Cross of St. Gregory by Pope Pius XI. He was confidential adviser to Governor Schmedeman when the Governor was Madison's mayor, followed him into the capitol last year without salary, is now chairman of the State Executive Council, a mixed advisory body of legislators and citizens. A 200-lb. bachelor with curly white hair...
Poland, to which Pope Pius XI was once a lively, winter-sports-loving Papal Nuncio, is predominantly Roman Catholic (71%). It is also one of the few remaining nations where it is practically impossible to be married or divorced outside the church. Since the Catholic Church does not grant divorces, a Pole who wishes one must be a member of some other church. Last week it. appeared that, just as U. S. citizens get divorces by becoming temporary residents of Nevada, so Poles were getting them by becoming temporary members of the Orthodox Church...
Between Pope Pius XI and Dictator Stalin I yawns an abyss on a major issue of fact: Did millions of Soviet citizens starve in 1933 or did they get enough...