Religion: Pius to the Hills

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Pius XI began last week in strictly routine fashion in Vatican City and ended it by making papal history in the Alban Hills. Never a man to coddle himself even in hottest August weather, he studied reports on the Austrian situation, received two U. S. prelates, ten U. S. athletic institute directors and the Argentine ambassador to the Holy See. Next day he welcomed 60 Canadian schoolteachers with a graceful little speech hailing them as "sculptors of souls."

The last visitor gone, the...

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