Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The north transept of St. Peter's was screened off. Brussels carpets covered extra pews. Primates and Cardinals, Archbishops and mitred Abbots in scarlet and purple robes sat and deliberated. There were strolls in the Borghese gardens and midnight consultations in the overcrowded inns. The youngest delegate was the Archbishop...
He had the unnatural inflection that, 1,500 years later, Cesare Cardinal Borgia inclined to?incest with his sisters. His fancies led him to roast people alive, feed others to wild beasts. He loved to mutilate children, women, men. At executions he made victims' parents attend and after the slaughter...
Additional revelations of the week concerning the Church-State compromise did not alter its cardinal points: 1) The Government of Italy will designate a considerable plot of land around the Vatican and extending southward down the River Tiber as "The Papal State"; 2) An indemnity of one billion lire ($52...
Died. Eugenic Cardinal Tosi, 65, Archbishop of Milan; after a long illness; in Milan. His death leaves the College of Cardinals with 33 foreign cardinals and 29 Italian; the first Italian minority since the 14th century schism of Avignon.
From the clergy came a wry farrago. Dr. Milo Hudson Gates at the Chapel of the Intercession called Jolter Barnes a smart-Alec. Dr. Lyman P. Powell at St. Margaret's remarked that Jolter Barnes confused front page publicity with ordered knowledge. Rabbi Nathan Krass at Temple Emanuel contended: "Science...