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Died. Bonaventura Cardinal Cerretti. 60, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal, one-time Apostolic Delegate to Australasia and Papal Nuncio to France, close friend and biographer of Pope Pius XI. often mentioned as his successor; of pneumonia; in Vatican City...
During a daily audience last week a Noble Guard (honorary Vatican attendant) stood by Pius XI's side. He asked if the Holy Father, 75, did not find it fatiguing to stand long hours receiving thousands of pilgrims. Replied the Pope...
Holy Week of Pope Pius XI's Holy Year ended in Rome last week with a great banging of bronze bells and the smoke of thousands of censers. In Rome to hear the bells and smell the smoke were the Vice Chancellor of Germany and Premier of Prussia but their minds were on other things. Lean-jawed Col. von Papen and blustering, full-blooded Capt. Goring darted from one ancient palace to the next, from the Vatican to the Air Ministry, to Il Duce's office. Shortly stumpy little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria came roaring over...
Into the Vatican's Pilgrims' Hall a group of pilgrims from northern Italy filed devoutly and stood against the wall. When Pope Pius came in by another door, all knelt. As the Pope stood he spied a kneeling man who towered above the others. He asked the prelate at his side, ''Isn't that Primo Camera?" It was. Said the Pope, who disapproves of prizefighting. "It seems God could not enrich him physically more abundantly." When he raised his arm to bless the group, he gestured specially at Italy's heavyweight champion...
Many thanks to you for your remarkably fine cover picture for April 3 issue of TIME. It is one of the most amazingly true, fine and real likenesses of Pope Pius XI which has ever been made. I am having this framed for my desk because this picture of the Holy Father expresses that essentially military aspect of the Catholic Church characteristic of the Church Militant. It seems to best express the basic idea underlying Catholic Action...