Word: pontiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hall of the Consistory, faced by the Sacred College of his scarlet robed Cardinals, sat white-clad Pius XI, once Achille Ratti, but since Feb. 12, 1922, His Holiness the Pope, Bishop of Rome an Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Temporal Dominions of the Holy Roman Church...
Enrico Ratti, papal cousin in Milan, was run into by a bicyclist, suffered grievous injuries. The Supreme Pontiff at Rome was notified of the accident...
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...
...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...