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Last week in Milan was buried Marina Beghe, 93, whose house for many years sheltered an energetic young priest named Achille Ratti, her nephew. Last week Achille Ratti, now 74, mourned his aunt. He had not left Rome since he became Pius XI in 1922, and the day of his aunt's burial was the day he had chosen to issue his second encyclical in this year of Depression. Title: Caritate Christi Compulsi (Urged by Charity of Christ...
...proudest of its "talks" (by everyone from George V to Pius XI) and especially of its National Lectures inaugurated three years ago by the late Poet Laureate Robert Bridges. Each National Lecturer is given a full hour in which to talk and if he talks only 45 or 50 minutes B. B. C. is not in the least perturbed, merely turns on what British listeners call "The Ghost in Galoshes." This is a clock which ticks seconds, known officially as "The Interval Signal." The box in which it nestles with a microphone is known unofficially as "Studio...
Meanwhile, Pope Pius XI, strolling in the Vatican Garden, had heard the news, telegraphed his hope that President Doumer would recover "with God's help and the aid of science...
Celebration of Maundy Thursday was not limited to King George. In the Vatican Pope Pius washed the feet of twelve foreign priests. Most Italian priests per: formed a pedilavium in their own dioceses. In Fontainebleau Alfonso XIII announced that for the first time since his coronation he would wash no feet. Said he: "Because I am on French soil, I will observe Easter in accordance with French customs, attending Church as a simple worshiper...
...years Pius XI has given the world many and many a message. Lately he has even become loquacious. Notable among his 20 encyclicals are those dealing with Christian unity, Christian education of youth, marriage, and reconstruction of the social order. Pius XI founded and developed academies and institutes of science, archaeology, biblical studies Dnentology. He consecrated the first six Chinese bishops, the first Japanese bishop spent large sums on the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith (missions) 1 hough the Church has suffered bitter perhaps irreparable, losses in Spain and Mexico, though Russia is his enemy, it is well intrenched...