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...should return to Paris, last fortnight, after a visit to the new Papal State, but beloved Louis Ernest Cardinal Dubois. When correspondents hastened to call upon the amiable and popular Archbishop of Paris, they found him in the best possible humor. He had just carried to Pope Pius XI, he said, a check for a half-million francs ($19,500). At first the Holy Father would not take it, but Cardinal Dubois gently proffered the sum a second time, and finally Pope Pius turned the check over to the Papal treasury, with instructions that it be used to relieve Catholic...
Inasmuch as Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, is now a temporal as well as a spiritual Sovereign (TIME, Feb. 18). His Holiness allowed himself to be interviewed as such for the first time last week...
...temporal sovereign to another, Pope Pius XI requested King Vittorio Emanuele III to release the total of four priests who languished in Italian prisons, last week, one of them implicated in a bank swindle...
Jumpiness and severity toward Roman Catholics was again last week the mood of President Emilio Fortes Gil of Mexico, who mortally hates and fears Pope Pius XI, because he thinks that the locomotive and two cars of his Presidential train were dynamited by Roman Catholics (TIME...
Commenting afterward upon the new treaty, His Holiness exclaimed in vibrant tones of pious emotion: "It gives God back to Italy, and Italy to God!" Of Benito Mussolini, who made the treaty possible, Pope Pius mystically observed: "There was revealed to us a man whom Providence caused us to meet...