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...Christmas address to his College of Cardinals, His Holiness Pope Pius XI hurled from Vatican City a potent reaffirmation of his 1931 Encyclical against sterilization: "That pernicious practice must be condemned. . . . Men are begotten not for earth and time but for heaven and eternity. . . . Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects. . . [to] tamper with the integrity of the body, either for reasons of eugenics or for any other reason...
...stopped fighting in the swampy jungles of the Gran Chaco last week. Suddenly the chatter of tropical birds again seemed loud. Just before the eleven-day "Christmas Truce" was arranged by League of Nations statesmen (see p. 11 )-last year's Chaco "Christmas Truce" was arranged by Pope Pius XI-battling Paraguay pressed her recent supreme offensive to capture Bolivia's Fort Munoz. Whether Munoz. was captured just before or just after the truce's zero hour was a question in hot dispute last week. It may well start Bolivia and Paraguay fighting again, as they have...
...Pope Pius XI, whose tight little temporal realm has long been considered immune from depression, last week instituted retrenchments which may eventually save him $3,000.000 per year. First step: a pay cut for 1,000 church employes in Vatican City and Rome. Salaries above 1,000 lire ($82) per month will be slashed 10%; those above 2,000 lire 15%. Thus affected will be 22 resident cardinals who get 100,000 lire per year...
...Tower" which radio receipts made possible, the Bishop has declined to interfere even when he disagrees with Father Coughlin's notions. Last week, disagreeing again, he nevertheless said: "No heresy has been preached. Father Coughlin in his addresses is advocating the principles set down by Leo XIII and Pius...
...uttered in his throbbing brogue in many a Sunday broadcast, is that of Statesman Leo XIII: "Every minister of holy religion must throw into the conflict all the energy of his mind and all the strength of his endurance." Last week Father Coughlin also reminded the Press of Pius XI's strictures against "those few who . . . hold and control money ... govern credit . . . grasp, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production so that no one dares breathe against their will...