Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your quotation from a pastoral letter of Cardinal Hayes, relative to birth control, in your issue of Dec. 17 is all right in its way but does not state the Catholic view point on the subject. May I direct your attention to the November issue of the Catholic World of...
It was a political tangle which precipitated Merry del Val on his so-glittering early career. Cardinal Rampolla was expected to succeed to the papacy when Leo XIII died in 1903. But objections were raised and the election finally went to Giuseppe Sarto, a simple priest, peasant by birth, peasant...
It was expected, of course, that the appointment would be only temporary. On the contrary, three months later the Pope made Merry del Val a Cardinal and gave him the full secretary title. Thereafter for eleven years Merry del Val at the Vatican counselled, conferred, carried out the policies of...
Strangely ill-mated as the two seemed-the simple, ascetic Pope and the flashing knightly young Cardinal-they soon became united by the strongest bonds: dependence and admiration on the part of Pius, affection on the part of Merry del Val.
In 1914, when Pius died, Merry del Val seemed by all odds the likeliest candidate for St. Peter's throne. But a new force had arisen in the Catholic hierarchy, Giacomo della Chiesa, Archbishop of Bologna. Cardinal della Chiesa had delivered a striking address on the outbreak of the...