Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Vittorio Emanuele, hearing of the advent of a baby Duce, wired his "cousin"* his warm congratulations, as did Pope Pius through his Secretary of State, Cardinal Gasparri.
*Brother of Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val, onetime Pontifical Secretary of State (1903-14). Sons of the late Don Rafael Merry del Val, famed Spanish diplomat, both Alfonso & Raphael were educated partly in England.
Turning against Rome a face that looks like a vise with two deep sockets for eyes, Louis Cardinal Billot, 81-year-old Frenchman, a foremost theologian, renounced his red hat and repaired last week to France to enter a monastery as plain Father Billot. The alleged cause of his resig...
Died. Cardinal Enrico Reig y Casanova, 68, Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain; after a long illness; in Toledo, Spain.
...although in England Chief Rabbi Hertz may be called His Eminence, his position does not resemble a cardinal's. A cardinal is an officer of his church's hierarchy; Jews have no similar terraces of theocratic dignities. Rabbi Hertz's chieftainship laks the authority of the cardinalate. Perhaps the best comparison is to the position of John Gardner Murray as the Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church...