Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Nothing new yesterday, nothing new tomorrow, nothing new since 1870!" said Cardinal Gasparri last week and thereby brushed into the politico-ecclesiastical wastebaskets, a dozen misconceptions.
His Eminence Peter Cardinal Gasparri has been, since the beginning of the present pontificate, Papal Secretary of State, the official closest to the Holy Father. Recently it has seemed to some eager-eyed Fascists that the Cardinal's zeal for Fascismo has been insufficiently hot. At him went the...
Thus approved, the Cardinal Secretary went to Paris last week, and a reporter of L'Eclair found him surprisingly willing to talk. Not once could the reporter bring the name of Mussolini to the Cardinal's lips, but step by step through the interview the third person masculine...
What of the immediate future? Would there be radical changes in the relations of State and Church? Would the Pope come out from prison? Would he consent to be once more an Italian as well as a world power? "It is all conversations," replied the Cardinal. "He [Mussolini] does us...
But was this dream not comparable to the Vatican's ideal of the Kingdom of Christ? Down came the Cardinal's eyebrows into a deep frown, and ire flashed from the darkness. "How dare you make that comparison?" he thundered: "The idea of Christ as King is as...