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...anteroom of the Vatican one morning this week waited two Roman Catholic prelates, Monsignor Eugéne Tisserant and Monsignor Giovanni Mercati, while in the nearby Consistorial Chamber gathered Pope Pius XI, his court and resident members of the College of Cardinals. Of this secret consistory, convoked a month ago, the Pope asked ratification of his choice of the two monsignori as new Princes of the Church. When assent was silently and swiftly given, Vatican functionaries entered the anteroom, informed the cardinals-elect that the Holy Father would bestow red hats upon them at a public consistory later...
...Vatican City last week Pope Pius XI appointed Very Rev. Francis J. Monaghan, president of Seton Hall College in South Orange, N. J., to be Coadjutor Bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y. with the right of succession to that upstate see now administered by Bishop Joseph Henry Conroy, 77. Affable Monsignor Monaghan, 45, was ordained in 1915 from the North American College in Rome, alma mater of many an able U. S. prelate...
...Philadelphia Monsignor Hugh L. Lamb, chancellor of the archdiocese since 1926, was consecrated auxiliary bishop, assuming the post Bishop O'Hara relinquished when he was sent to Georgia. Another prelate from the tight, self-sufficient archdiocese of Philadelphia's Denis Cardinal Dougherty moved up in the hierarchy when Most Rev. George Leo Leech became Bishop of Harrisburg, succeeding the late Bishop Philip Richard McDevitt. After a month at his new job Bishop Leech astounded his 200 priests by calling each correctly by his first name as he knelt to kiss the Episcopal ring...
Died. Rt. Rev. Monsignor Timothy ("Father Tim") Dempsey, 68, organizer & operator of six St. Louis poor asylums, mediator of many a gang and labor dispute, best-loved Catholic priest in a big Catholic town; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
Tall, portly, affable Monsignor Corrigan brings an able administrative hand to the University which Bishop Ryan endeavored to make a Catholic Harvard or Yale. Philadelphia-born, he studied, like many another able young U. S. seminarian, at the North American College in Rome, was ordained priest there 33 years ago. Returning to Philadelphia, he became an ecclesiastical handyman and good personal friend of Denis Cardinal Dougherty. Father Corrigan worked among Italians, published a newspaper called La Verita, taught Dogmatic Theology at St. Charles, was diocesan censor of books, moderator of priests in conference, presiding judge of the diocesan matrimonial court...