Religion: The Pope at Rome

"The 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...

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