Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month as preparations for the Manila Congress went forward, Pius XI lay racked with pain, dying some thought, in his third-floor chamber in the Vatican. To his bedside one day went a visitor who could not be put off, an old friend and trusted servant from across the...
Eastward the Cardinal's passage was almost regal. He inspected II Duce's colonial Massaua, dedicated a new.-cathedral at Port Said, unflinchingly visited lepers in Colombo, enjoyed receptions in Bombay and Singapore. But always during the 22 days the Conte Rosso sped eastward the ship's...
Bells & Whistles-No other church on earth has the taste for pomp of the Roman Catholic Church, or possesses such a world-wide organization geared to deck a city with yellow-&-white flags, provide a week-long demonstration by happy, enthusiastic masses. The Committees of the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress...
In 1915 Bishop Dougherty felt that his job was done, that the tropics were telling on even his robust frame, and so he intimated to the Vatican. He was named bishop of Buffalo, where he sold Liberty Bonds, built schools and churches, liquidated a $1,100,000 debt on a...
After he became Archbishop of Philadelphia, Dr. Dougherty denied publicly that he had solicited the post. Whether or not he subsequently voiced to the Vatican his claims-eminently just as they were-to be Philadelphia's first Cardinal, he was given his red hat in 1921, three months before...