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Vatican Reaction. With Italy in the hands of none-too-pious Benito Mussolini, Spain was until her Revolution (TIME, April 20 et seq.) the chief stronghold of the Catholic Church. In Vatican City last week Pope Pius XI chiefly sat and lay, being cautioned by his physicians against physical exercise in any form. The Vatican announced "the Holy Father was not surprised." A reaction, noted by correspondents in most Vatican clerics with whom they talked, was news: unofficially and without permitting quotation, Vatican authorities expressed the opinion that the act of disestablishment will lead to the restoration of His Most...
Stubbornly, insistently President Alcala Zamora of newly Republican Spain has pressed Pope Pius XI to withdraw Spain's die-hard Royalist Primate. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo (TIME, June 29). In Vatican City last week this long, silent diplomatic struggle ended with a decorous item in Osservatore Romano, Papal daily...
...great chorus of exhortation for unemployment relief throughout the world was last week added the voice of His Holiness Pope Pius XI. Without preliminary notice L'Osservatore Romano published an apostolic letter, Nova Impendet (New Things Are Upon...
When His Holiness Pope Pius XI issued last May his Labor Encyclical, Quadragesimo Anno (TIME, June 1), he was reasoning and pronouncing for 331,500,000 Roman Catholics throughout the world. To do approximately the same thing for 22,000,000 U. S. Protestants, there exists the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. It has no way of making its pronouncements authoritative ; but it may and does annually issue a Labor Sunday message to be read in churches throughout the land. Stronger than many a previous one was last week...
Having last week settled his difficulties with the Italian Government (see p. 24), His Holiness Pope Pius XI turned his thoughts to an old problem: Protestant proselytizing in Italy, where there are 42 Methodist Episcopal Churches, 5,000 communicants and 2,000 Sunday School pupils. Partially supported by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Church in the U. S., these churches are guided by Italian ministers but looked after by the U. S. The Italian Government permits registered Italian Methodist ministers, as well as Roman Catholic priests, to perform marriages, funeral services and other sacraments. In Rome the Methodist...