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...Pope'' of the Roman Catholic Church is that most puissant Cardinal in charge of its vast foreign missions-the prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith. Present "Red Pope" is Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, bald, round-faced Roman who from 1922 to 1933 was Apostolic Delegate in Washington, D. C. In pious sorrow last week the Cardinal-Prefect reminded the world that today no less than 6,000,000 people still live in slavery. He called Catholic attention to "the importance of the Church anti-slavery program as enunciated by Pope Leo XIII...
...Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi's press bureau amplified his statements by pointing out that the world's 6,000,000 slaves are in Ethiopia, Liberia, China and Moslem nations; that 2,000 slaves a year are taken from Africa across the Red Sea to be sold in Arabia...
Death has reduced the membership of the College to 52-half Italians, half non-Italians. Four of last week's appointments threw the balance in Rome's favor: those of Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate to the U. S. and Mexico; Most Rev. Maurilio Fossati, Archbishop of Turin; Most Rev. Angelo Maria Dolci, papal nuncio to Rumania; Most Rev. Elia Delia Costa, Archbishop of Florence. Non-Italian cardinals created were Most Rev. Jean-Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec and Most Rev. Theodor Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. It was said last week that Pius XI presented...
Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. is an office that has stood since 1893. The post carries no diplomatic rank, the Delegate simply keeping in touch with U. S. Catholics, interpreting Church law, speaking for the Pope sometimes. Member of an aristocratic Roman family, Archbishop Fumasoni-Biondi was sent to Washington in 1922 after having held similar positions in the East Indies and Japan for six years. In May 1927 he felt obliged to state that the Vatican had no interest in Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for President. In 1929, the Apostolic Delegate called on President Hoover. Archbishop...
Pope Pius XI pressed a key, lit an electric cross on Mt. La Verna in Tuscany to celebrate the 1929 signing of the Lateran Treaty, announced that he would create six new cardinals next month, among them the Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi. apostolic delegate...