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...motor cars purred out of Vatican City one morning last week, crossed the Tiber and rolled through the streets of Rome without attracting any particular attention. When they drew up at the Church of St. John Lateran at the opposite side of the city, attendants 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...
...said, works as hard over its diplomacy as any first class power-chose the day after Santander's fall to extend de facto recognition. Having cooled his heels in Rome for three months. Pablo de Churruca, Marques de Aycimena, accredited Chargé d'Affaires to the Lateran Palace from General Franco's Government, was summoned by the Papal Secretary of State, Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, who graciously, if belatedly, accepted his credentials...
...sports Charles Buddy, son of a wholesale fruit merchant, learned in St. Joseph streets. His baseball improved when he was sent, like many another bright youth with a vocation and the backing of his bishop, to the North American College in Rome in 1909. Ordained in the St. John Lateran Basilica in 1914, he returned to St. Joseph, rose quickly in the shadow of its Cathedral. Monsignor Buddy sits on the municipal Board of Health, aids in Community Chest campaigns, founded northern Missouri's first Negro Catholic church, an Information Forum for people of all creeds, a riverfront shelter...
Died. Marchese Francesco Pacelli, 61, General Counselor of the Papal State, brother of its Secretary of State Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli (see p. 45), intermediary between Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius XI in negotiating the Lateran Treaties which created the State in 1929; of pneumonia ; in Vatican City...
...posts: titular bishop of Lisinia (Asia Minor), auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y. which includes all Long Island, is smaller (1,086,722 Catholics) only than the archdioceses of New York and Chicago. Jersey City-born, sandy-haired Bishop Kearney was ordained in 1927 in the Lateran Basilica in Rome, where he took his doctorate in theology at North American College. Save for a short time as parish priest, he engaged entirely in diocesan work, became chancellor of Brooklyn...