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...last straw. On May 25, while Pope John XXIII was dying, Rome's Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities issued an instruction that would require Catholic universities to get clearance from Rome before awarding honorary degrees. The author of the decree is believed to be Archbishop Dino Staffa, who is the chief assistant to Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, the congregation's conservative prefect...
Among the winners of the Newdigate prizes have been a number of famous men. In 1812, Henry Hart Miliman won the prize for a poem entitled the "Belvidere Apollo"; in 1832, Roundell Palmer, now Lord Selborne, won the prize for his "Staffa"; in 1837, Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of Westminster, for "The Gipsies"; in 1839, John Ruskin for his "Salsette and Elephanta"; in 1843, Matthew Arnold wrote the prize poem, "Cromwell"; in 1852, Edwin Arnold, "The Feast of Belshazzar." At a later date, in 1860, J. A. Symonds, author of the "Renaissance in Italy," won the prize...