Word: nuncios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, en route to Italy, arrived Very Rev. Gaetano Cicognani, Roman Catholic archbishop and papal nuncio to Peru. He went to Washington to visit his brother the Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, whom he had not seen in seven years...
Poland, to which Pope Pius XI was once a lively, winter-sports-loving Papal Nuncio, is predominantly Roman Catholic (71%). It is also one of the few remaining nations where it is practically impossible to be married or divorced outside the church. Since the Catholic Church does not grant divorces, a Pole who wishes one must be a member of some other church. Last week it. appeared that, just as U. S. citizens get divorces by becoming temporary residents of Nevada, so Poles were getting them by becoming temporary members of the Orthodox Church...
When Nazi policemen threatened to kick the door down Dr. Wasserback submitted to arrest. In London Millimetternich-Dollfuss made protest to the Chief German Delegate and arranged for another formal protest from the Papal Nuncio in Berlin. Then, sure of the world's sympathy, he went back to bed. Dr. Wasser-back was released in a few hours, ordered from the country. Embarrassed Nazis ordered the German Press to suppress all mention of his arrest...
Died. Bonaventura Cardinal Cerretti. 60, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal, one-time Apostolic Delegate to Australasia and Papal Nuncio to France, close friend and biographer of Pope Pius XI. often mentioned as his successor; of pneumonia; in Vatican City...
...half Italians, half non-Italians. Four of last week's appointments threw the balance in Rome's favor: those of Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate to the U. S. and Mexico; Most Rev. Maurilio Fossati, Archbishop of Turin; Most Rev. Angelo Maria Dolci, papal nuncio to Rumania; Most Rev. Elia Delia Costa, Archbishop of Florence. Non-Italian cardinals created were Most Rev. Jean-Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec and Most Rev. Theodor Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. It was said last week that Pius XI presented two more names to the consistory, which would hold them...