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...well for Father Coughlin to justify himself by papal quotation, thought many a devout Catholic last week, but the fact remained that popes clothe their crusades for social justice in solemn, stately Latin, not in hoarse words through a microphone. Most outraged of the Catholic clergy was plump, garrulous Monsignor John L. Belford of Brooklyn who stormed at Father Coughlin: "The man is an infernal nuisance. He has gone mad with popularity. . . . Members of his Church despise him. . . . His Bishop is even worse than he is. The Bishop has it in his power to stop...
...Apostolic Process" in which a church tribunal could be held to investigate miracles and "heroic virtues." The Holy See ordered that it take place in Chicago with George Cardinal Mundelein as judge. "Devil's advocates" were appointed to cross-examine witnesses and eliminate spurious miracles. One of them, Monsignor Giovanni Delia Cioppa, came all the way from Rome. Churchmen could recall no such tribunal having taken place before in the U.S. In strictest secrecy, by candlelight behind locked doors in an austere chamber in Columbus Hospital, one witness at a time appeared before the court. Black-robed nuns swished...
Sharp-eyed Catholics will note that in almost every sequence Pius XI is accompanied by his favorite secretary, Monsignor Camillo Caccia Dominioni, who is supposed to have been secretly nominated a Cardinal last spring. The four U. S. Cardinals appear, with the camera most friendly to New York's amiable Hayes. The famed Swiss Guards parade in the uniforms which Michelangelo designed for them-cuirasses, helmets, ruffs, yellow, red and black striped knickerbockers. In the larger scenes-the raising of the Cross in the Coliseum, the Chicago and Dublin Eucharistic Congresses, the opening of the Holy Year last April...
...Genoa for a visit, Monsignor William Eugene Cashin of Manhattan, one-time Chaplain of Sing Sing Prison, found himself "encumbered with a guide and interpreter. I may say that he wished himself on me. He spoke fair English, called me Father Cashin and generally acted as though he knew me. His face was familiar and in checking up I found he used to be one of my boys in Sing Sing, where he used to attend mass and go to confession. Alberto was his name. It seems that he was declared an undesirable alien when he got out of Sing...
Holy Door. A brilliant floodlight filled one corner of great St. Peter's one night last week. A small train of prelates approached, led by the Very Rev. Monsignor Camillo Caccia Dominioni, plump Master of the Papal Household, a favorite of Pius XI and, it is believed, one of the two cardinals secretly nominated at last month's consistory (TIME, March 20)- secretly because, certain to be one of the busiest Vatican functionaries during the Holy Year, he would have no time for a cardinal's duties. Monsignor Caccia Dominioni consulted a picture postcard, directed workmen...