Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sudden report from Rome, originated in semiofficial circles, stated that it was very unlikely that any alteration would take place in the official relations between the Vatican and the Mussolini Government...
...Califate, which came into existence in 632 A. D. on the death of Mahammad, is the highest office of the Moslem religion. To some extent, although it cannot be compared to it, the Califate occupied the same position as the Vatican: The Calif (meaning successor, with to the Prophet understood) was the pontiff of Mahammadanism...
George was the son of a German and an Irish woman. A young prodigy, he was graduated from Manhattan College with all the honors obtainable. He was sent to Rome to learn more. There his scholarship and mental grace endeared him to Vatican officials, and when the aging Bishop of Brooklyn secured him as Secretary he congratulated himself on having one of the most brilliant priests ever originated west of the River Shannon. The Bishop aged. Young Father Mundelein assumed increasing responsibility and received, about every twelve months, a raise in rank, until finally the Pope made him Titular Bishop...
Cardinal O'Connell, of Boston, arrived in Rome after a visit to the Holy Land. The Osservatore Romana, Vatican journal, commented upon the warm reception accorded to the Cardinal in Jerusalem. "This attests two things: First, the prestige which accompanies a Cardinal of the Roman Church wherever he goes, and second, the great value Palestine attaches to the interest America takes in her recent new destiny. With Cardinal O'Connell on his pilgrimage went the good wishes of millions of Americans." Said Cardinal O'Connell: "There is darkness in the Near East, where the peoples...
...private audiences with prelates are resumed until 8:30 or 9, when supper is served. After supper, the Pope devotes himself to composition of Vatican communications. Often a Cardinal is compelled to use "gentle violence" in urging the Pope to retire. Once he turned to a Cardinal and said: "You know that when one is made Pope, life is finished. All then is in the hands of God. I will do nothing to preserve my life one day more, but I will work until God says : 'It is enough...