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...Pius XI's continual commands for public and private morality and his railing at the modern cinema fertilized the soil for this roguery. The Manhattan flimflammers went into Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, six States which contain one-half the U. S. Roman Catholic population,* and found priests eager to hear the prospectus of their "National Diversified Corp." The corporation proposed to make "movie and talkie pictures of thoroughly high-class, moral type, such as would appeal to church people." They promised that their major picture, Mary the Virgin, would be reverent in plot, the scenes...
...Creation, save Russians and savages listened raptly to the tremulous Latin of Pope Pius 261st authentic Roman Pontiff, when last week he inaugurated Vatican City's radio broadcasting Station HVJ. The Soviet Government had for bidden Soviet stations' rebroadcasting the speech. The savages lacked receiving sets. But all other peoples hearkened. Devout Catholics fell to their knees at the radioed sound of the Pontiff's revered voice. Non-Catholics listened intently, musing on the significance of this most modern manifestation of Roman Catholic extension...
...date was Feb. 12-Lincoln's Birthday for some 123,000,000 U. S., inhabit ants, ninth anniversary of Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti's coronation as Pope Pius XI for 331,500,000 Roman Catholics the world over.* The U. S. through the National Broadcasting and the Columbia Broadcasting Companies assisted the Pope mightily by hooking up some 150 stations in the U. S. and Canada and relaying the papal words to nations which Vatican City's station HVJ was unable to reach clearly. The hookup was the most widespread and the most intricate in radio...
...alive can propound a pious witticism more deftly than the present Pope Pius...
Such a thing as jailing a prominent actress for preferring another man to her husband and proving it, is all but unknown in Italy-or anywhere else. But throughout Italy last week the encyclical of Pope Pius XI covering all forms of amorous activity (TIME, Jan. 19) produced startling results. A national crusade to promote "Fascist Morality" began. Doctors were arrested by the dozen on charges of extinguishing the unborn, pharmacies were raided for contraceptives, the notorious cliques of unnatural persons in Venice, Naples, Capri, were put under investigation, and at Florence prominent, popular Actress Wanda Orlandini was sentenced...