Word: papal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...priests would circle the grounds back to the altar-then the pontifical Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament by Cardinal Bonzano-his papal benediction to the throng, Adeste fideles...
...Major John Adams Warner, 39, Superintendent of State Police, at Albany. Notables attending the wedding included: George Brennan (Democratic boss of Illinois), George W. Olvany (leader of Tammany), Owen D. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Efrem Zimbalist, Assistant Secretary of the Navy T. Douglas Robinson. Through the "Papal Secretary of State, Pope Pius XI cabled his apostolic benediction for the couple. In all, 1,500 people crowded into the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and the mass said by Patrick Cardinal Hayes lasted an hour and a half, in the presence of two and a half truck loads...
...clergy ?gold bannered folk, Dominican friars in their white cassocks, Trapist and Capuchin monks in brown, Benedictines and Jesuits in black?then the resplendent, gold-draped bishops and archbishops. Homage and glory mount as the procession nears its end. Fifteen cardinals are coming, vanguard to the Host behind. Papal guards in scarlet, blue and yellow uniforms follow. Then comes, under a canopy of gold and surrounded by censor-bearing acolytes, the Blessed Sacrament. It is inclosed in its golden ostensorium, its jeweled monstrance. No less a personage may carry it than His Eminence, Giovanni Cardinal Bonzano, the legate...
Died. Cardinal Sili, 80, cousin of the famed Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Gasparri; at Rome. His death leaves five vacancies in the sacred college, which now is composed of 34 Italian and 31 foreign cardinals. It is the custom of the Pope never to reach the college's "plenum" of 70 members...
...Pope come out from prison? Would he consent to be once more an Italian as well as a world power? "It is all conversations," replied the Cardinal. "He [Mussolini] does us an amiable favor from time to time but nothing is changed. I see no prospect of a change. Papal Rome is adamant." In a last attempt to strike a spark of Italian patriotism, the reporter asked about the proposed revivification of the Roman Empire. The Cardinal chuckled: "Oh, you like novelties in Paris . . . a new Roman Empire growing from its ashes-dead for so long...