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Died. Signorina Anna Sarto, 76, youngest sister of the late Pope Pius X;* at Rome, in a tiny apartment facing St. Peter's Square, where she lived with her only surviving sister, Signorina Maria Sarto...
Kingdom of Christ. Last December, Pope Pius XI instituted by encyclical letter to Catholics the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ as King to be celebrated the last Sunday in October. Many leaders of creeds other than Catholic applauded the idea. Then the discussion waned until last week, when the National Lutheran Council (representing 2,500,000 U.S. Lutherans in America and meeting in Chicago) unhooded a hawking, soaring criticism...
...have read with great interest the encyclical letter of Pope Pius XI, given out on Dec. 11, 1925, in which, 'with Apostolic authority,' he instituted the Feast of our Lord Jesus Christ as King. This feast is to be celebrated 'every year and in all the world on the last Sunday of the month of October; that is. the one just preceding the celebration of all the saints...
...Pope Pius XI has heard with gladness of this American contribution to Catholic forms of spiritual culture: "We wish earnestly that the making of the spiritual exercises should daily spread wider and wider abroad...
Some Medieval and early Modern Popes did claim papal suzerainty over civil and temporal affairs. But recent ones have not. Nor does Pius...