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...move to the Grand Hotel. Reason: He wished to call upon "The Prisoner of the Vatican," and no caller is received who comes directly from official premises of the Italian State, the hypothetical "jailer" of His Holiness. Amir Amanullah, although a Mohammedan, accepted amid pomp from the Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, the "Order of the Golden Spur...
...Pope at Home . . . (Reading time 21 minutes 40 seconds)''-had he been given an opportunity to survey the proof-sheets of an article published under this heading in last week's issue of Liberty, nickel weekly, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, the 260th successor to St. Peter, Bishop of Rome, might well have been somewhat astonished. He would have found, impudently set forth, only trite commonplaces about himself. The only little known fact concerned his predecessor, Pius X, namely that the "undergarments" of the late Pontiff "were badly worn out and patched in many places...
...this nickel's worth would have revolted His Holiness, what must have been his bedazzlement upon receiving, last week, mail addressed to him from Russia. In this he found an official communication from the Government at Moscow, which stated that he, Pope Pius XI, had been condemned to death. The letter arrived by registered mail and bore the signatures of Premier Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, Party Secretary Stalin and other Communist bigwigs. It offered grounds for the condemnation in a reference to the Pope's financial contributions toward the support of the anti-Bolshevist movement...
...these words but their Latin equivalent were written last week by Pope Pius XI. They, together with many another illuminating the same question, formed the first papal encyclical of the year and the eleventh encyclical composed by the present pontiff. Superficially, they were merely a restatement of the principles which have guided the Roman Catholic Church throughout its entire existence; principle all based upon the principle of permanence. But the encyclical also had a more specific effect; this was to dispose once more and perhaps finally of the plans for a union of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, much...
...Rome the temperature touched 23° Fahrenheit-lowest at the season for 80 years-and a slight earthquake added to the general misery. The Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, remained imperturbably seated in his study during the four minutes of earthcrust wabbling...