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...fortnight ago, in the course of his continued-in-our-next speech against Catholics, James Thomas Heflin of Alabama said in the U. S. Senate: "Monsignor Belford is a villainous and scurrilous little Catholic puppy up here in the State of New York, who edits or writes for a little sheet called The Mentor, and who suggests that a thug be hired to waylay and attack me. I could pinch his brains out between my thumb and forefinger...
...Scutari the Archbishop of Albania, Monsignor Mjeda, declared last week, ex cathedra: "The recent Italo-Albanian treaty of Tirana (TIME, Dec. 13) is an outrage, and reduces Albania's independence to nullity...
...John Lateran (Roman Catholic). Protestant President Doumergue of France was inducted (by proxy) as Canon.* The ceremony, attended by the whole Cathedral chapter, was a revival, after 100 years, of a distinction once granted the kings of France. The delicate matter had been arranged between Foreign Minister Briand and Monsignor Maglione, Papal Nuncio at Paris, at whose overture not stated. But at prospect of improved relations between the Holy See and official France, the Vatican, patient, tireless for the Lord on high, rejoiced...
...Right Rev. Thomas M. O'Keefe, pastor of the Church of St. Benedict the Moor, presided at the opening; and many another white priest assisted. God might look like Monsignor O'Keefe, thought many a Negro child newly inducted into Catholicism, but surely the Holy Spirit was like Mother Superior M. Theodore of the Handmaids. Her order of black nuns was founded at Savannah, Ga., only nine years ago to show the beauties of their Church to Negroes. But when the centre of Negro immorality, by Church definition, definitely shifted to Harlem, the Mother House...
...Monsignor Lorenzo Lauri, who succeeded Monsignor Achille Ratti as Apostolic Nuncio to Poland when he (the present Pope) was elevated to the Cardinalate in 1921. The other Italian whom His Holiness slated for elevation last week, is Monsignor Giuseppe Gamba, whom he appointed Archbishop of Turin in 1923. The investiture of the former will be performed by President Moscicki of Poland at Warsaw...