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...anecdote with a moral was told in Vatican City last week to illustrate the familiar saying that "Pope Pius has never told...
Gently Pope Pius inquired, "Have you read of it in the newspapers...
...Pope Pius XI, in a voice choked with emotion, concluded an address to the Diplomatic Corps last week thus: "I, like Peter, give you all I have-my blessing." His Holiness had just received official congratulations from the diplomats upon the resumption of temporal power by the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 18). These expressions of official courtesy were thus long delayed because of the reluctance of many governments to offer them at all. None were forthcoming from Japan, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway or The Netherlands. And the French Ambassador Caron de Beaumarchais, who offered the congratulations of his government several...
When strongly pressed to reveal the name of the first nation outside the continent of Europe on which Pope Pius XI will set foot, the Cardinal-Archbishop reflected for a moment, then answered cautiously, "perhaps Ireland...
...corresponding revenues were seized by the Italian State. Today, however, the State has promised, in the newly signed Italo-Papal treaty & concordat (TIME, Feb. 18), to indemnify the Holy See for its losses of 1870 by a cash payment of $92,000,000. Therefore the act of Pope Pius, last week, in despatching a half-million francs worth of "Peter's Pence" to Mexico, seemed to augur that a new underlying theory of "Peter's Pence" is being evolved by the prelates of the Papal State...