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Just before noon on the day before Christmas, all cardinals living in Rome passed into the Vatican's Hall of Consistory. They took their proper seats. Talk; whispers; a signal. Silence. His Holiness Pius XI entered, their fellow in the priesthood, their lord in the theocracy. The cardinals saluted...
Mixed marriage is the subject of an encyclical letter which His Holiness has almost ready. The Roman Catholic Church in general opposes mixed marriages and is "intransigeant about the conditions and precautions prescribed by" Roman Catholic Church law. Pius XI has been considering such an encyclical on mixed marriages for...
Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Secretary of State to His Holiness the Pope, arranged last week to telephone a Christmas greeting from the Pope to the U. S., via the Manhattan bureau of the United Press. Delighted U. P. officials made plans to be at their offices before breakfast, for Cardinal Pacelli...
* *International T. & T. intelligently capitalized this gift by distributing press pictures of His Holiness seated before the I. T. & T. telephone. Numerical standings of the organized religions: Roman Catholics 331,500,000 Orthodox Catholics 144,000,000 Protestants 206,900,000 Total Christians 682,400,000 Jews 15,630,000...
Awarded. Thomas Alva Edison, irreligious inventor, a gold medal; by Pope Pius XI; for his "contribution to the world through invention," and particularly for giving His Holiness a gold & ivory Edison dictating machine.