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Emperor Hirohito, the living god and archpriest of Shinto, will soon embrace Christianity. This startling prediction was made last week by staid Professor Shigeru Nambara, president of Tokyo's Imperial University. Ever since their defeat, the Emperor and all his imperial household have been seriously studying Christian theology...
...first acts of the Bolshevik Government in 1918 was to whittle down the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Church was soon split into feuding factions. Biggest chip off the old flock was the schismatic, Bolshevik-supported Living Church whose heresiarch was Alexander Vedensky, formerly an Archpriest (a Russian clerical rank one step higher than a priest). Later Vedensky split with the Living Church, finally participated in an ecclesiastical fusion called the New Church. But as the Soviet Government's flirtation with the Orthodox Church got under way, Vedensky dropped out of sight, in the Russian fashion...
...citizen-saint, Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (TIME, Sept. 12). Said the Cardinal before sailing: "I am very glad to do this because I knew her very well and I buried her when she died in Chicago." Last Sunday, by precedent-breaking permission of Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica (in charge of beatification ceremonies), Cardinal Mundelein celebrated Mass during rites which gave Mother Cabrini the title "Blessed," entitled her to public veneration at her tomb in Manhattan...
...front cover) In Castel Gandolfo last month His Holiness Pope Pius XI, much refreshed by a summer in the cool Alban Hills, summoned to his side for an hour's conference His Eminence Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Secretary of State to His Holiness, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica. What the 79-year-old Holy Father said to the austere, slim-fingered 60-year-old Prince of the Church who is his most trusted associate, no outsider knew. Next day, amid villagers' cheers and band music, the Pope returned from Castel Gandolfo to Vatican...
...over-conscientiously acted. As a build-up for Anna Sten United Artists launched a lavish advertising campaign consisting of daily newspaper "teasers"-Sten portraits with no text except her name and one word to describe her varying expressions ("Mysterious," "Fascinating," "Glamorous," "Worldly," "Captivating"). Last week Greek Catholic Archpriest Nicholas Kedroff, Dean of St. Nicholas Russian Cathedral in Manhattan, led his congregations in a prayer that Anna Sten's first U. S. production would be successful. His piety and Producer Goldwyn's extravagance were misplaced. Nana is sad but spurious and stodgy. All that saves it from complete mediocrity...