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...Italian censor. United Press, which carried the "young priest's" exploit exclusively, saved money by dot-dashing the encyclical from Paris, where it was released at the same time as in Vatican City. It was later said that the young priest traveled from Vatican City to Paris with Monsignor Francis J. Spellman of Whitman, Mass. Thus had the Monsignor's party been searched or subjected to indignity U. S. Catholic opinion would have mobilized with double force...
...Ender bids for Dictatorship!" His attempt to form a Cabinet promptly failed. So did other attempts by other Austrian statesmen last week. Even bald, beak-nosed, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, boss of the powerful Christian Socialist party, failed after trying until 2:30 a. m. to form a Cabinet...
...Rome a visiting U. S. Catholic may pray in the church of his U. S. cardinal (every cardinal, wherever situated, is a priest of some church in Rome); he may contact the Vatican for an audience through Monsignor Burke, Rector of the North American College; but if playgrounds be his hobby he must go to Knight Hearn. Onetime Supreme Knight, European Commissioner of the K. of C. during the War, he is today the friend of every Roman child who wants to play on grounds or swim in the Tiber. Off the K. of C.'s handsome Tiber platform...
...newspaper Lavoro Fascista ("Fascist Labor") charged that the Italian League for Catholic Action (Azione Cattolica) is no longer nonpolitical, has become in fact the mechanism for putting into action a Catholic political plot. This plot, II Lavoro charged, was discussed at a recent conclave of Azione Cattolica, addressed by Monsignor Pizzardo, Under Secretary of State of the Papal State. He advocated, according to Il Lavoro, action by Azione Cattolica to seize the Italian State and set up a "Catholic dictatorship." What happens in hot-blooded countries when they are highly organized soon happened. A marching column of young Fascists pounced...
...Osservatore, harking back to Il Lavoro's original anti-Fascist "Catholic plot," printed a denial by Monsignor Pizzardo that he had ever incited the Italian League for Catholic Action to any action other than religious action. The Bishop of Andria, present at the Catholic Action meeting in question, confirmed Monsignor Pizzardo's denial "before God and in the presence of witnesses...