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...North American College in Rome, where he was ordained in 1909. For the next 13 years he served his church as an educator, briefly had a parish in Youngstown, then was called to Rome as Spiritual Director of the North American College. So impressed with him was Cardinal Gasparri, then Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI, that in 1926, at the age of 44, Mooney was made a titular archbishop and appointed apostolic delegate, first to India and later to Japan-the first American to have a permanent high-ranking Vatican diplomatic post...
...Pacelli was ordained a priest. Almost at once Monsignor Gasparri, later papal Secretary of State and Pius XI's grey eminence, invited Pacelli to stop teaching law at the Roman Seminary of Apollinare and to help him make history in the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs (the Vatican's foreign relations office). Pacelli continued there and in the Secretariat of State until he became Pope in 1939. Nevertheless, he saw more of the Church Universal than any other prelate in papal history...
...National Catholic Education Association, Father Francis J. Connell revealed that in the revised U. S. catechism which long has been in preparation (TIME, Oct. 17, 1938), Eve will be clearly exonerated. The central question & answer will probably be stated as simply as in the catechism of the late Cardinal Gasparri (translated and edited at the Catholic University of America): Q. What do we call this sin which comes down to us from Adam? A. We call this sin which comes down to us from Adam Original...
...Munich, a channel through which went many diplomatic negotiations, including Pope Benedict XV's famed peace proposals. By the time he returned to Rome in 1929 to accept his red hat, Cardinal Pacelli had arranged papal concordats with Bavaria, with Prussia. Two months later he succeeded aging Cardinal Gasparri as Secretary of State...
...lifted Pope Pius XI out of his car, into a sedan chair. The Holy Father had arrived to inspect and inaugurate one of the many new projects his busy mind continually hatches - an Ateneo Romano or Pontifical University, established in the vast church where, in 1929, Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri signed the Lateran treaties between Italy and the Church...