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Died. Very Reverend Monsignor John J. Curran, 77, famed mediator of Pennsylvania anthracite strikes, eloquent prohibitionist; after long illness; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mine mule-driver in his boyhood, Priest Curran enlisted the aid of his friend President Theodore Roosevelt to bring about a victorious conclusion to John Mitchell's historic United Mine Workers strike of 1902. Admirer and aid of John L. Lewis and his fight to unionize the coal industry, Monsignor Curran was stricken after his rectory was fired last Good Friday...
Died. Right Rev. Monsignor John Joseph Burke, 61, famed U. S. Roman Catholic churchman, secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference since 1919, onetime (1904-22) editor of the Paulist Catholic World; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...sons and daughters of this North American continent, in spite of present difficulties, enjoy a condition of noble and decent human existence which is the prerequisite of a true and lasting peace in society." The Cardinal was then officially welcomed to Manhattan by energetic, 80-year-old Vicar General Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle of the New York Archdiocese, whisked uptown to St. Patrick's Cathedral to be greeted by His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, with whom two days later he received that indefatigable cultivator of the great, Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, then went out to look...
...freedom is not a fact. As a Catholic Diplomat Eugenio Pacelli rose swiftly. Born into an old Roman family which had furnished the Church many a functionary, this solemn, devout young man became a priest at 23, was summoned to the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs at 25. Monsignor Pietro Gasparri, who later became Cardinal and Secretary of State, took an interest in young Pacelli's career, made him a protégé. Pacelli became a minutante or copyist, then undersecretary of the Congregation, then pro-secretary, finally, under Pope Benedict XV, Gasparri's successor...
During the War Monsignor Pacelli was appointed Nuncio at Munich. That nunciature was the channel through which many, an important diplomatic negotiation was carried on between the warring nations. Nuncio Pacelli was entrusted with Benedict XV's famed peace proposals which German liberal politicians seriously considered. Later, in the first of Germany's numerous small putsches, Pacelli was nearly assassinated in the streets of Munich. With the founding of the Weimar Republic he established a nunciature at Berlin, arranged concordats between the Vatican and Bavaria and Prussia before returning to Rome in 1929 to accept a Cardinal...