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Spain's Alfonso XIII ordered crown warrants issued for arrest on charges of lese-majeste of leaders of the "Republican Alliance," new and threatening federation of the largest of the 22 little Spanish "splinter parties" which have raged impotently for a Republic...
...modernism." At the beginning of the century he was teaching theology in St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. (where he was born). He had studied at Rome, Cambridge and Munich and there had absorbed much of the modernized philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (Thornism), philosophy which Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) approved. But Thomism leads, if unrestrained, to dangerous questioning of Roman Catholic dogma, to what Leo's successor Pius X (1903-14) called pernicious "modernism...
Charles Phelps Taft II, Episcopalian, and Pope Pius XI chatted at the Vatican, recalled the visit to the Vatican of the lawyer's late great father, William Howard Taft, sent by Roosevelt in 1902 to hold parlance with the late Pope Leo XIII...
Died. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ramon M. Mestres, 66, longtime pastor of Carmel Mission (Calif.) where in 1899 he married Lou Henry and Herbert Clark Hoover; recipient of the Order of Isabella the Catholic from King Alfonso XIII of Spain for his restoration of Carmel Mission; after a long illness; at San Jose...
...Alfonso XIII of Spain, sailing his yacht Toribio II: a national regatta for 8-metre and 10-metre sailboats, in stormy, treacherous seas off Santander. His wife, Queen Victoria-Eugenia, was aboard the Osborne, which finished third; their sons Jaime and Juan were fifth...