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...Father, as Ruler and as Vicar the present Pope Pius XI recently appealed to all Christendom (TIME, March 10), and later to the Most High (TIME, March 31) for action against the Soviet Government, whose anti-religious acts His Holiness called "horrible, sacrilegious iniquities...
...points were made: first His Holiness is "highly pleased" that the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Edgar Borah (casual Presbyterian) made private protest anent the persecutions to Soviet Acting Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maximovitch Litvinov. The Vatican further intimated that Pope Pius is "deeply disappointed" because, despite his appeals, no Christian Government whatsoever has made any official, diplomatic protest to Moscow; third, the Vatican intimated that Pope Pius is particularly disappointed with the Government of the Irish Free State and with those of their Most Catholic Majesties, King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy...
...Moscow was published fortnight ago a manifesto signed by 25 Soviet scientists, declaring that they are not being persecuted, charging that "the Papacy throughout history has persecuted scientists, especially astronomers," coiMiuding with a demand that Pope Pius release from "the secret, inquisitorial archives of the Vatican" certain suppressed astronomical works of Renaissance Scientists Galileo and Copernicus...
Died. Donna Maria Sarto, 81, last surviving sister of the late Pope Pius X; in Rome. In spite of their poverty, she and her late sister adopted two war orphans, performed many an act of kindness for the city's poor. For burying her sister, she gave agnostic Prime Minister Mussolini her holy brother's skull cap. Later she received a small annuity from the Vatican...
Thus for a long hour continued the most impressive, most authoritative appeal which the Holy Apostolic Catholic Church can make to God Almighty. At last, with the mighty work performed, Pope Pius dismissed the stupendous throng which had now swelled to 60,000, with the Apostolic Benediction ending: "Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth...