Christ the King: Pope Pius XI's hope for 'lasting peace among the nations'
The feast of Christ the King is a relatively recent addition to the Church’s liturgical calendar but a powerful reminder to the modern world that Jesus reigns.
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The feast of Christ the King is a relatively recent addition to the Church’s liturgical calendar but a powerful reminder to the modern world that Jesus reigns.
The Vatican may have saved thousands of Jews during the wartime papacy of Pius XII but the late pope's silence on genocide will be debated this week during an international conference.The Vatican has defended Pius XII, saying he saved many Jews by having them hidden in religious institutions and that his silence was born out of a wish to avoid aggravating their situation.
A week has passed since shots were fired at a homecoming football game. Recently, four guns were recovered at other schools, all in separate cases recently.
Wisconsin requires schools to have plans for active shooters and other incidents after school, but does not require them to have drills related to those activities.
The Arrigoni bakery has made bread for the popes for almost a century, from rosetta rolls to wholewheat loaves -- but mass tourism has proved deadly and no prayers can save it now."The workers ate both the 'ciriola', that big, classic Roman loaf that hardly anyone makes anymore, and rosetta rolls," he told AFP. "So for his whole papacy, which lasted almost 27 years, we gave him five 'ciriola' and five rosetta rolls."