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...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...
Cardinal Pacelli got out of this dilemma by having his great friend, Monsignor (now New York's Archbishop) Francis Spellman, hustle copies of the encyclical to France by plane. But the incident made a deep impression on Pacelli. Soon he had equipped the Vatican with a short-wave radio station ("for research and propaganda"), a new electric powerhouse, a fleet of modern automobiles (gifts of the manufacturers) to replace the old carriages, electric elevators, 800 telephones (the Pope's telephone is solid gold stamped with the Papal Arms and the trade-mark of International Telephone & Telegraph...
Since Chaplain Cleary has been serving with the Army on numerous stations since 1918, the award of this office, which carries the title of Right Reverend Monsignor, was made for outstanding and conspicuous service to the country as well as to the Church. Upon his return from the war zone, Archbishop Francis Spellman, head Catholic Chaplain of the U. S., will invest the Colonel with his new robes of office...
Chief of Array Chaplains William R. Arnold clasped Bishop Adna Wright Leonard's hand: "May the good Lord grant you happy landings." Replied the Methodist Bishop to the Catholic Monsignor: "Especially if one of them is the final landing...
...convention of the American Catholic Sociological Society, Monsignor Ryan lashed out last week at "the authentic Bourbons of our time . . . the National Association of Manufacturers; the attitudes and utterances of a majority of the metropolitan newspapers; the pronouncements and performances of the most powerful of the farm organizations, and the reactionary attitude of the majority of the recently elected Congress. . . . They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing...