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More urbane was the reaction of Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, who was declared by Vatican officials to have "showed intense emotion" upon receiving the news, and to have then offered up prayers of thanks in his private chapel...
John J. Raskob, vice president of the General Motors Corp., had audience with Pope Pius XI and received a special benediction. A Knight of Malta, Mr. Raskob had contributed to the Hospital of the Infant Jesus in Rome, favorite mission of the Pope. Said Mr. Raskob: "His Holiness was particularly pleasant...
...Supreme Pontiff & Vicar of Christ must not, does not and cannot lower himself sufficiently to become one of two persons who are quarreling. The truth of this statement became luminous, last week, as discussion waxed hot in Italy upon the recent and contradictory speeches of Pope Pius XI and Prime Minister Mussolini-speeches which had seemed to place them on opposite sides of a dispute as to whether the education of Italian youths shall be purely secular and Fascist, or partially religious and Roman Catholic (TIME, April 9). Round 1 of the apparent quarrel had ended when Il Duce backed...
Even without such confirmation, however, it was abundantly clear, last week, that pallid, spectacled Pope Pius and swarthy, vigorous Cardinal Gasparri are now as one in their convictions that the Roman Question cannot be settled...
Herbert Howard, son of Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., in company with one Edward Bullough, fellow student at Caius College, Cambridge, paid a visit to Pope Pius XI. They presented to His Holiness a petition asking the Canonization of the Blessed Cardinal Fisher, onetime Chancellor of Cambridge, and the Blessed Thomas More, onetime Lord Chancellor of England. In the 16th Century these men opposed King Henry VIII's divorce from his first (Catholic) wife; both were beheaded. The Pontiff conversed with the two youths for one half hour, recalling his visits to England...