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...your issue of June 26 you mention the Feast of Corpus Christi at St. Peter's, and in speaking of His Holiness, Pope Pius XI you state: "Prelates held a damask canopy over the Holy Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella...
...Solamon began to run like a rabbit, threw his passport into one of the plashing fountains, dived through the Bernini colonnade. Little damage was done to St. Peter's, but four Holy Year Pilgrims were slightly injured by the bomb. In his private library, 150 yards away, Pope Pius peered over his gold-rimmed spectacles, remarked that the noonday gun seemed a little late, went on with his work. Saving his breath, the Fascist officer picked the passport out of the fountain. Demetrio Solamon was later arrested in his hotel...
Last month Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland opened a Music Week at Columbia College in Dubuque, Iowa, crying: "We have become mute in the Catholic Church. We have become silent worshippers sitting in our pews almost as lifeless as the wood of those pews. . . ." Bishop Schrembs quoted Pope Pius XI, who issued an encyclical on the subject in 1929, and Walter Damrosch who told him : "You have the most wonderful music in the world . . . and you have robbed your people of the privilege of community singing. . . ." Bishop Schrembs recalled hearing 7,000 railroad workers sing a Credo at Lourdes...
...America, Jesuit weekly, the same theme was played last week by John La Farge, Jesuit member of the famed artistic-literary family. Father La Farge also quoted Pius XI: "The faithful should not be present at the sacred ceremonies like mere outsiders or speechless bystanders; but should be deeply affected by the beauty of the liturgy." Singing should be an act of faith. It is. said Father La Farge. "one of the noblest of all 'devotions...
Last week Pope Pius XI, no longer prisoner but monarch of Vatican City, revived the celebration. In vast St. Peter's Square, late in the afternoon, 50,000 Romans and pilgrims waited. Presently from St. Peter's central doorway appeared the Pope, apparently kneeling but actually sitting at a priedieu on a platform borne by twelve husky men. Pius XI bore aloft a gem-encrusted monstrance containing the Host.* Prelates held a damask canopy over the Holy Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella. Mace-bearers, torchbearers. Noble Guards...