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Italy. Hail, cannonading upon Castel Gandolfo, Italy, killed 200 pedigreed chickens belonging to Pope Pius...
...Pope Pius XI should suddenly begin to spend his summers in a high, cool, suburban palace instead of in the low, stuffy Vatican how would most Catholics react...
...consider himself any longer "The Prisoner of the Vatican," but he is widening his orbit of movement with extreme circumspection. One day last week he set out soon after dawn to make a second visit to high, cool Castel Gandolfo, a Papal property in which most Romans expect Pius XI eventually to summer. As His Holiness whizzed along with his Master of Ceremonies suddenly POW !-a tire blew...
Working fast, the Papal chauffeur had a new tire on in five minutes, sped to Castel Gandolfo where Pius XI inspected every appointment of the Summer Palace down to the vegetable garden, hen houses and kitchen. Early rising villagers received the Apostolic benediction. Then, still so early that socialite Romans had not yet tasted their breakfasts, the Papal motorcade whizzed back toward Vatican City. CRASH!-an Italian army plane came down out of control and cracked up in the Castel Gandolfo road, just after His Holiness had passed. By 10:15 a.m. punctual Pope Pius XI was back...
Sharp-eyed Catholics will note that in almost every sequence Pius XI is accompanied by his favorite secretary, Monsignor Camillo Caccia Dominioni, who is supposed to have been secretly nominated a Cardinal last spring. The four U. S. Cardinals appear, with the camera most friendly to New York's amiable Hayes. The famed Swiss Guards parade in the uniforms which Michelangelo designed for them-cuirasses, helmets, ruffs, yellow, red and black striped knickerbockers. In the larger scenes-the raising of the Cross in the Coliseum, the Chicago and Dublin Eucharistic Congresses, the opening of the Holy Year last April...