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Last week without undue ceremony Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, trusted Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI, left Vatican City, drove to Rome's railroad terminal, boarded a train for Genoa. There, next day, he embarked on the S. S. Conte Grande for South America. Last month it had been announced that on the first leg of his trip Cardinal Pacelli would formally inaugurate Vatican City's $1,500,000 railroad system, abuilding since 1929. This plan was abandoned. But the departure of the erudite Cardinal-Statesman was epochal enough...
...first Secretary of State to leave Italy since Cardinal Consalvi went to Paris in 1801 to wangle a concordat out of Napoleon. Good reason had Pius XI in sending his good Pacelli across the Atlantic. Fortnight hence (Oct. 10) in Buenos Aires opens the 32nd International Eucharistic Congress, at which thousands of Catholics and scores of bishops and archbishops will join in a variety of pious acts centering around the great theme of the Eucharist. Of all the cities in which such congresses have been held, only London and Chicago are larger than Nuestra Ciudad de la Santisima Trinidad, Puerto...
...official censors of France and Italy approved the Legion. Through his Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli, Pope Pius XI made public a letter urging Catholics to make it "a duty of conscience" to improve the cinema, to film their own pictures if necessary...
...himself in Rome. He loves nothing quite so much as supping in state at a Cardinal's Palace with twinkling candles on the table and viands of the best. Every day Vegetarian Hitler called up to ask how the negotiations were going with Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli. They were going splendidly. Papal Chamberlain von Papen cheerfully reported, and, sure enough, by the end of the week he initialed a concordat with the Holy...
...Abandoned. From his office at the Vatican, slim, sensitive-fingered Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli kept assuring German Catholics through statements to the Roman Press that their enforced political sacrifices were not in vain...