POPE’S NEW PLEA FOR PEACE
Prayer That Italy May Be Spared War
LONDON, May 5.
The Pope made a new plea for world peace today, and prayed that Italy would be spared the horrors of war. His Holiness was speaking at a Pontifical Mass in a church in Rome.
“The hour has come,” be said, “for all Italian people to pray for peace while the whirlwinds unleashed by human passion threaten beyond the Alps and the Italian frontier.” At the end of his sermon the Pope received a I reniendous ovation, and the congregation which packed the church cheered for nearly five minutes, and shouted “Long live the Pope.”
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 7
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109POPE’S NEW PLEA FOR PEACE Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 7
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