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Pope Pius XII sent Apostolic Delegate Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. President Roosevelt sent Vice President Henry Agard Wallace. Heading the gowned procession that marched across Edwards Parade and up the broad stone steps of Gothic Keating Hall was Professor Albert Feuillerat of the University of Paris (founded early 12th Century). Five Catholic bishops in traditional purple robes brought up the rear. Amid the faint rumble of trolley cars that reached the 70-acre campus, Fordham's President Robert Ignatius Gannon faced his distinguished assemblage and exclaimed happily: "John Hughes [Fordham's founder, later New York's first Catholic...
...Roman Catholic hierarchy was raised to archiepiscopal dignity last week in the person of sandy-haired, twinkling-eyed Most Rev. Robert Emmet Lucey. With all the pomp and circumstance of his church's ritual, he was enthroned as Archbishop of San Antonio. The Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pope Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., himself installed him. For the dozens of bishops and archbishops, the scores of red-robed monsignori, the hundreds of priests and nuns, the thousands of lay folk who jammed San Fernando Cathedral and the Military Plaza outside...
Looking on and loving it were: plump, pleasant Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York; bland, swart Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. They were glad to see priests adept at quick comebacks. Said Delegate Cicognani: "The apostles preached in this way. . . . It was in the streets that Our Lord met those who were in bad need...
...long urged the Vatican to send an American as Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., especially since Britain has an English-born Papal representative. Present occupant of the hand some $1,000,000 Apostolic Delegation on Washington's Embassy Row is an Italian, the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. Bishop-elect Hurley's six-year tenure at the Vatican, plus the diplomatic posts he has capably filled in India and Japan, make him a logical choice...
Between the Vatican and President Roosevelt there is warm friendship and, on occasion, warm agreement. But between Mr. Roosevelt and Monsignor Cicognani there is neither. Before the President announced his appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his personal envoy to the Pope,* he consulted not Monsignor Cicognani but New York's able new Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman, and Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil, temporary successor of Chicago's late Cardinal Mundelein...