Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woodrow Wilson called him the First Citizen of Texas." New York's Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise said he was "the greatest rabbi we've got." Jacob Schiff gave him $500,000 to set up a Jewish Immigrants' Information Bureau in Galveston, Tex., to attract more Jews to...
Holy Week. The church at Viñaroz, transformed by the Peoples Army of the Spanish Leftist into a market, was hastily cleaned out, reconsecrated in time for Easter services last week. In Seville the traditional ceremonies of Holy Week, celebrated before the civil war with greater popular participation and...
Previously, Pius XI had received the Primate of Poland, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, had told him he was proclaiming St. Andre Bobola the Protector of Poland. That land, nominally 75% Catholic, is dear to the Pontiff. Nearly 20 years ago he was its Papal Nuncio Achille Ratti. He and U. S...
When Cardinal Innitzer emerged, he virtually retracted the plebiscite statement, declaring in Osservatore Romano that it "did not intend to be an approval of what was, or is, irreconcilable with the law of God and the freedom and rights of the Catholic Church. Besides, that declaration must not be interpreted...
The damage, however, was done. Not a newspaper in Catholic Austria* mentioned the Cardinal's about-face. And arriving back in Vienna, he had a swastika flag run up on old St. Stephen's Cathedral-just as he had had its bells rung when Hitler entered the city...