Word: nuncios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope turned his attention to another democratic nation, England. He appointed Monsignor William Godfrey, rector of the English College in Rome, to be Apostolic Delegate in Great Britain-the first representative of the Pope in Protestant Great Britain since the 16th Century. Not a diplomatic official like a Papal Nuncio, an Apostolic Delegate acts as liaison between the Vatican and the Catholic hierarchy of a nation. Monsignor Godfrey will have access to the British Foreign Office, may well be able to report to the Pope, at firsthand, on Britain's dealings with Germany, now the chief Catholic sore spot...
...drove in his 15-ton tank from the Leftist People's Army into the Rightist lines and surrendered. Obligingly the proletarian soldier demonstrated his death-dealing machine to an aristocratic audience which included German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer, Italian Ambassador Count Guido Viola di Campalto, Papal Nuncio Mgr. Gaetano Cicognani. Opening the exhibit was short, blond, blue-eyed General Count Francisco de Jordana, Rightist Spain's Foreign Minister and Vice Premier of the Franco Government, more & more looked upon as Rightist Spain's No. 2 man. The Count orated: "In this extravagant display of selected specimens...
Previously, Pius XI had received the Primate of Poland, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, had told him he was proclaiming St. Andre Bobola the Protector of Poland. That land, nominally 75% Catholic, is dear to the Pontiff. Nearly 20 years ago he was its Papal Nuncio Achille Ratti. He and U. S. Minister Hugh Gibson were among the few foreign diplomats who remained in Warsaw when in 1920 the Bolsheviks advanced upon the city. Warsaw did not fall, but as the Russians retreated they pillaged the countryside, snatched from a shrine in Polotsk the venerated body of Andre Bobola...
Most Rev. Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti, Apostolic Nuncio to Yugoslavia who earned his red hat by a pyrrhic victory. He negotiated a concordat with Yugoslavia so favorable to his Church that it led to religious rioting and the Yugoslavian Parliament dared not ratify it (TIME...
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...