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Next day, His Eminence Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia and the Right Reverend Bishop Henry Althoff of Belleville, Ill., were received by the Pontiff, as were also the Most Reverend Archbishop Peter Fumasoni-Biondi, Apostolic Delegate at Washington, and Beniamino Gigli, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan...
...recommended by Their Eminences William H. O'Connell of Boston, Denis J. Dougherty of Philadelphia, Patrick J. Hayes of New York and the Most Reverend the Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore, who left the U. S. to make the quinquennial report of his diocese to the Pontiff, as custom demands...
...From his pulpit, he declared he would rather submit his conscience to the tyranny of the Pope than to the tyranny of a General Assembly. His devoted congregation prepared to gasp, but quickly found itself smiling when the pastor added: "I never thought I would turn to the Roman Pontiff for liberty...
...Roman Pontiff, on the other hand, rarely exercises his infallibility; and when he does so it is after mature consideration and with most expert advice...
...wretched little town of Nisi Yugo-Slavia, will shortly be celebrated the 1,600th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea (TIME, Sept. 8) Although this town is in the domain of the Greek Catholic Church, the Roman pontiff and, indeed, all "Orthodox" Christian Churches show profound interest in this occasion. For it was the Council of Nicaea in 325 which scotched "the most dreadful heresy which has ever threatened the Christian Church." This was the Arian heresy that Jesus Christ was not divine but merely the most perfect of God's creatures. In committing to Cardinal Tacci Porcelli...