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...Manhattan his fund-raising began with a series of staggering rebuffs. When he called on Cardinal Hayes, the man he got to see was young Monsignor Dineen, the Cardinal's secretary, who said impatiently, "This city is full of begging priests from all over the world ..." and walked away even after Abbe Dimnet proved his identity. Out in the street again, the abbe shook his head, laughed nervously, reminded himself that he was a man of letters of some standing, and walked to the Colony Club, where he was to appeal to a luncheon group of 20 ladies...
...scholar and diplomat, who is secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, head of the Church's bureau of Catholic Action. Once detested by Italy's Fascists because he fought the Pope's battle with them over the matter of educating Italian youth, Monsignor Piz-zardo, like the Pope, is today disposed to collaborate with Fascism. As much as any prelate in the Vatican, he has the Holy Father's ear in business and financial affairs. Last May he was the Pope's legate to the coronation of King George...
...following year, the Holy Father sent a representative to the U. S. (Monsignor Francisco Satolli, later the first Apostolic Delegate to the U. S.) who was empowered, among other things, to look into the McGlynn case. Single-Taxer McGlynn gave Monsignor Satolli a statement of his views which so convincingly showed them to be fundamentally orthodox that, at once, the Pope's representative declared him free from censure. Though it has since been frequently intimated to the contrary, Single-Taxer McGlynn regained his priestly standing without being obliged to retract a single word of his utterances on economics...
Last week Father Jones failed to appear before his philosophy classes. The whole campus knew he was closeted with Duquesne's president, Monsignor Jeremiah J. Callahan. Soon President Callahan announced: "The resignation of the Rev. Thomas R. Jones from the faculty . . . has been accepted. He feels ... he has inadvertently placed Duquesne University in an unfavorable light and that his resignation may clarify the situation." Campus consensus was that ardent football fan Father Jones had been punted out. His students staged a strike but it quickly collapsed and Father Jones packed himself off to brood on the discovery that...
Last week the lengthy job of repairing the Cathedral was completed. Solemnly on Sunday, Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard, present Archbishop of Reims, consecrated the edifice for worship, in the presence of Monsignor Valerio Valeri, Papal Nuncio to France, and many another representative of Church and State...