Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Well-known is the difficulty Italian prelates experience with English and Irish names. The late great James Cardinal Gibbons used to tell how Pope Leo XIII called him "Jibbons."
One of the tightest little political machines in North America is the Liberal Government of Canada's Province of Quebec, which has had an uninterrupted, 39-year run of power. Head man since 1920 has been wily, wiry Premier Hon. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, now 69, born to an aristocratic...
...diplomacy or administrative policy dictated the Pope's latest appointments, which bring the cardinalate to the unprecedented number of 68, two less than full strength. Cardinal-elect Mercati, 69, and Cardinal-elect Tisserant, 52, both come from that august treasure-house of learning, the Vatican Library, of which Pius XI (as Monsignor Achille Ratti) was once prefect and which he still cherishes. Giovanni Mercati is now its prefect, Eugene Tisserant its pro-prefect...
When Eugéne Tisserant was only a boy, Giovanni Mercati was making friends with Achille Ratti, then with the Ambrosian Library in Milan. Last week Vatican politicians were reminding newshawks to watch Cardinal Mercati at the conclave which must some day elect a new pope. One reason: new cardinals...
¶ In Philadelphia Monsignor Hugh L. Lamb, chancellor of the archdiocese since 1926, was consecrated auxiliary bishop, assuming the post Bishop O'Hara relinquished when he was sent to Georgia. Another prelate from the tight, self-sufficient archdiocese of Philadelphia's Denis Cardinal Dougherty moved up in the...