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Spectacular as any Wall Street "success story" was the career of the amiable mountain-climbing librarian, Achille Ratti, who in three years (1919-22) became first Archbishop, then Cardinal, then Pope. Last week the Catholic world celebrated still another success story. Eugenio Pacelli, 53, one who was hatted Cardinal but two months ago succeeded to the highest office in Catholic statesmanship, became Papal Secretary of State...
...lamb's wool "three fingers broad" embroidered with six purple crosses, is worn over the chasuble as a symbol of the secular authority delegated by the Holy See. Originally peculiar to the Pope, it is now given to cardinals and archbishops as the highest papal honor. As Archbishop Ratti, Pope Pius XI received the pallium for his work in Poland. Two to receive pallia a month ago were Cardinals Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon, and Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...
Died. Count Fermo Ratti, brother of Pope Pius XI; at Rome; after an illness of two days...
Learned indeed is Cardinal Gasparri. Greatest living authority on canon law, in 13 years he codified its chaos. Once he might have been Pope. When Benedict XV died (1922), it was said that Gasparri received 28 votes on the first ballot, withdrew in favor of Achille Cardinal Ratti who had become through Gasparri's influence first papal librarian, then cardinal. Climax of the Gasparrian career was the Lateran Treaty with the Italian State, restoring in part the temporal sovereignty and possessions of the Pope, ending the 59-year-long papal "imprisonment." His resignation will probably not take effect before...
...confines of the Vatican, no member of the Italian Royal Family set foot on Papal ground. At last came the Lateran Treaties, re-establishing the temporal power of the Pope (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week the onetime Prince of Naples, now King of Italy, called on the onetime Achille Ratti, now Pope Pius XI. To 40 million Italians, to 331 million Roman Catholics, it was a day of reconciliation never to be forgotten...