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...TIME, July 20), Benito Mussolini last week summoned the directors of the Fascist Party for a talk very warlike indeed. He was not now dealing with States powerful in arms or economics. The Papal State could only hurt him morally. He thought it had hurt him morally when Pope Pius XI smuggled his anti-Fascist encyclical up to Paris for promulgation (TIME, July 13), and therefore Il Duce and his party directors issued a sizzling hot rejoinder last week. Excerpts...
...Encyclical Letter of His Holiness, Pius XI, by Divine Providence Pope"?thus last week began a document which was spirited out of the Papal State, past Italy's eagle-eyed frontier guards, and so to Paris. For this dramatic exploit the Holy See employed a young priest, modest, inconspicuous...
Pope v. Pagan. In the Papal State experienced electricians cared last week for the wireless apparatus by means of which Pope Pius can instantly dot-dash an encyclical letter to Paris, should couriers lose their cunning...
...Mussolini of numerous Catholic clubs and the Society for Catholic Action (TIME, June 8 et seq.). His Holiness was getting no satisfaction, receiving no apology from the Italian Government. The world press had dropped the story from front-page headlines to inside squibs. By his 15,000-word encyclical Pius XI stirred slumbering interest as by a mighty trump (though the Italian Government took no visible notice). Presumably with direct reference to Benito Mussolini, the Supreme Pontiff thundered...
With Jesus and For Jesus? With the calm assurance of one to whom the future is all but an open book, Pius XI concluded thus: "Everything is definitely promised in answer to prayer; if the answer will not be the re-establishment of serene and tranquil relations, it will have its answer at any rate in Christian patience, in holy courage, in the infallible joy of suffering something with Jesus and for Jesus, with the youth and for the youth so dear to Him, until the hour hidden in the mystery of the divine heart which will infallibly...