Word: gasparri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
When the late Pope Benedict XV died, Correspondent Morgan had entered the death chamber by permission and kissed the slippered foot of the late Pontiff even before the fact of Death, ascertained by physicians, was officially certified by Cardinal Gasparri and made known with the words "Vere papa mortuus est." With his inquisitive yet reverent eyes. Observer Morgan noted that the Cardinal did not observe the quaint Papal ceremony for determining Death once used but since fallen into disuse: "The ceremony consisted in tapping the Pope on the forehead with a small silver hammer and calling him by his first...
...professor at the Seminary of Our Lady of the Lake, later established and headed Cathedral Latin School for boys. He held a pastorate in Youngstown, Ohio until, in 1923, he was recalled to Rome to be Spiritual Director of his own North American College. The late Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State, met the U. S. priest in preparing a new catechism, was so impressed with his qualities that in 1926 Father Mooney was drafted into the Church's diplomatic service, made a titular archbishop. Archbishop Mooney was appointed Apostolic Delegate first to India, later to Japan-first...
...streets of Munich. With the founding of the Weimar Republic he established a nunciature at Berlin, arranged concordats between the Vatican and Bavaria and Prussia before returning to Rome in 1929 to accept a Cardinal's red hat. Two months later Cardinal Pacelli succeeded aging Cardinal Gasparri as the Pope's Secretary of State...