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...Mathers, Cottons and Sewalls as they turn over in their graves. It will not be an act of inhospitality, mind you (even in death they are too well-bred for that), simply one of incredulity that in the land of the Bean and the Cod, he who is called Summus Pontifex, Vicarius Petri, Servus Servorum Dei, Dominus Deus, Nostra Papa, and addressed as Sanctissime Pater should be here. Their amazement is only matched...
...Holiness Pius XI, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Summus Pontifex, 261st Bishop of Rome, Servant of the Servants of God, Head of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church for 17 years and four days. He was dying. Ill as well as aged (81), he had refused to take to his bed till three days before, stricken by cardiac asthma and kidney disturbances. A sturdy patient, he had told his physician that "the Pope must not stay in bed. The Pope must be Pope." Mindful of Leo XIII, who lay 20 days a-dying, he had said: "I will die sulla...
...Summus Episcopus. During the German Protestant Church struggle between Nazi and non-Nazi factions (TIME, June 12, et seq.) Premier Göring pitched in by announcing that he had assumed the ancient religious title of the Kings of Prussia, Summns Episcopus of the Prussian Protestant Church. By virtue of this office Captain Göring kept up maximum Nazi pressure on Protestants in Prussia, during and after the carefully fixed church plebiscite which was "won" by the Nazi "German Christians" (TIME, July 31). Fortnight ago the church elders elected as 'Primate of Prussia" at Premier Göring...
Soon from the Vatican came the Summus Pontifex's command that every church in Rome should hold a service of expiation. This was done forthwith...
...journalistic plum exclusively to Thomas B. Morgan, onetime Associated Press correspondent and now Chief of the Rome Bureau of the rival United Press. Although lean, astute, close-mouthed Tom Morgan has been getting down to the Vatican for over a decade, he professed himself "amazed," last week, when the Summus Pontifex received him not in the Papal Throne Room but privily in his library. Observant Tom Morgan noted that Pio Undecimo was wearing "his little zucchetto or skull cap," and that "he spoke in a calm deliberate way". . . . first in Italian and then in English...