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...Daniels is a consummate jackass." So cried Monsignor Hugh L. Lamb, Chancellor of the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, in a speech about U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels. "Daniels easily succumbed to the flattery of Plutarco Calles, the power in Mexico, who is known as the God-hater. He was wined and dined and private trains were placed at his disposal. . . . He has publicly expressed approval of the Socialistic and Communistic educational program...
Said Mexico's Big Boss, onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles: "I regard the expulsion of archbishops and bishops as necessary. . . . They are organizing in preparation for a movement'' (i. e. revolution). Back cracked Monsignor Pascual Diaz, Archbishop of Mexico, that the clergy were doing no such thing, but that Catholics must make every effort within the law "to preserve the immutable principles of justice and morality...
...Jersey City, 100-odd parishioners of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church petitioned their Bishop, Most Rev. Thomas J. Walsh, to remove their priest, Monsignor Ignatius Szudrowicz. They cited Canon No. 2,147 of their Church, which provides that a priest may be removed if his parishioners "hate" him. The petitioners assured Bishop Walsh that a majority of Monsignor Szudrowicz's flock of 4,000 Polish-Americans do indeed "hate" him. Unconvinced, the Bishop dismissed the complaint. The "haters" tried to picket the church, were prevented by police...
...member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America at Maryknoll, N. Y., Father Keller was borrowed this year by his Church's biggest missionary organization, the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith. He discussed with his superior, Rt. Rev. Monsignor William Quinn, his ideas for making a quarterly pictorial of Catholic Missions, which S. P. F. had been publishing for ten years. Father Keller had in mind increasing its circulation from 80,000 to 500,000. Distribution would cost little because each issue could be sent out by freight, disposed of in the churches...
...distraction of this sort was offered last week. The Apostolic Nuncio, Monsignor Cesare Orsenigo, as Dean of the Corps, conveyed its formal greetings in French, though he can speak German. The Realmleader, who speaks only German, stoutly replied, "Our relations with other nations shall be determined by the spirit of equality...