Word: gasparri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacelli was ordained a priest. Almost at once Monsignor Gasparri, later papal Secretary of State and Pius XI's grey eminence, invited Pacelli to stop teaching law at the Roman Seminary of Apollinare and to help him make history in the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs (the Vatican's foreign relations office). Pacelli continued there and in the Secretariat of State until he became Pope in 1939. Nevertheless, he saw more of the Church Universal than any other prelate in papal history...
...National Catholic Education Association, Father Francis J. Connell revealed that in the revised U. S. catechism which long has been in preparation (TIME, Oct. 17, 1938), Eve will be clearly exonerated. The central question & answer will probably be stated as simply as in the catechism of the late Cardinal Gasparri (translated and edited at the Catholic University of America): Q. What do we call this sin which comes down to us from Adam? A. We call this sin which comes down to us from Adam Original...