Word: popes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Vatican City, at the first consistory (meeting of cardinals) of his reign, Pope Pius XII appointed a new Army & Navy bishop. He chose his most trusted U. S. servant, Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, present Archbishop of New York. To do most of the active work of the chaplaincy, the Holy Father created an auxiliary bishop: Rev. John Francis O'Hara, president of Notre Dame University...
...after the consistory, the Vatican let it be known that the Holy Father was canceling all public audiences and most private ones until Christmas, on the advice of his physicians. The Pope was reported suffering from shock induced by his worries over world unrest...
...last week 58,000 Chrysler men were out of work. "Locked out," said Frankensteen. "Walked out," said Weckler. "Go back to work," bellowed Martin, echoed by the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin (somehow managing to misquote an encyclical of the late Pope Pius XI), echoed also by the U. S. press. In plants supplying Chrysler with parts, jigs, tools, dies, thousands more were idle-probably...
...Catholic Crisis (Messner, $3), Author Seldes uttered some hoarse Bronx cheers at the Roman Catholic Church. His thesis is that the Church has dallied too long with Fascism, and his book suggests that his way of fixing things would be to have someone like Oswald Garrison Villard for Pope. He devotes more than 300 pages to accusing Catholic churchmen and laymen of all manner of misdeeds-pressure against the press and the cinema, devious activities in politics, assaults on civil liberties-which, though in part damaging, are not all germane to the subject. Privately last week, George Seldes admitted...
...Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops of the U. S., who this week hold their annual policy-making meeting in Washington, D. C., Pope Pius XII sent a surprise message, the second encyclical of his reign. It celebrated the 150th anniversary of the founding of the U. S. hierarchy.* His prime views...