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When the late Pope Benedict XV died, Correspondent Morgan had entered the death chamber by permission and kissed the slippered foot of the late Pontiff even before the fact of Death, ascertained by physicians, was officially certified by Cardinal Gasparri and made known with the words "Vere papa mortuus est." With his inquisitive yet reverent eyes. Observer Morgan noted that the Cardinal did not observe the quaint Papal ceremony for determining Death once used but since fallen into disuse: "The ceremony consisted in tapping the Pope on the forehead with a small silver hammer and calling him by his first...
...professor at the Seminary of Our Lady of the Lake, later established and headed Cathedral Latin School for boys. He held a pastorate in Youngstown, Ohio until, in 1923, he was recalled to Rome to be Spiritual Director of his own North American College. The late Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State, met the U. S. priest in preparing a new catechism, was so impressed with his qualities that in 1926 Father Mooney was drafted into the Church's diplomatic service, made a titular archbishop. Archbishop Mooney was appointed Apostolic Delegate first to India, later to Japan-first...
...fact. As a Catholic Diplomat Eugenio Pacelli rose swiftly. Born into an old Roman family which had furnished the Church many a functionary, this solemn, devout young man became a priest at 23, was summoned to the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs at 25. Monsignor Pietro Gasparri, who later became Cardinal and Secretary of State, took an interest in young Pacelli's career, made him a protégé. Pacelli became a minutante or copyist, then undersecretary of the Congregation, then pro-secretary, finally, under Pope Benedict XV, Gasparri's successor...
...streets of Munich. With the founding of the Weimar Republic he established a nunciature at Berlin, arranged concordats between the Vatican and Bavaria and Prussia before returning to Rome in 1929 to accept a Cardinal's red hat. Two months later Cardinal Pacelli succeeded aging Cardinal Gasparri as the Pope's Secretary of State...
...Finance in the Papal States, the Cardinal Camerlengo came, during his brief rule, to appropriate some of the powers of the Cardinal Secretary of State. Modern pontiffs have united the two offices, and for many years, until his death last November, the Camerlengo was Secretary of State Pietro Cardinal Gasparri (TIME, Nov. 26). For this week Pope Pius XI summoned a secret consistory of the Cardinals of the Curia (resident in Rome and Vatican City). One of the matters he laid before the consistory was the appointment of a new Camerlengo. No surprise was it that the Pope presented...