Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At the age of 46, husky, crop-haired Augustus Hlond, son of a Silesian laborer, became the youngest cardinal in the world. He was also the first Prince of the Church to celebrate a Mass that was broadcast (in 1928), and the first to fly in a plane (in 1929...
From Rome, and later from Lourdes, Hlond acted as spiritual leader of Poland's 20 million Roman Catholics. In 1944 the Nazis finally arrested him. Liberated by U.S. troops, he returned to Poland. There Cardinal Hlond became known as the leading voice raised against Communism.
Last week, in Warsaw, following an appendectomy and pneumonia, 67-year-old Augustus Cardinal Hlond died.*
The bonds of orthodox Hinduism are stronger in Madras than anywhere else in India. Abstention from liquor, tobacco and meat are cardinal points in the orthodox Hindu code. Prohibition is spreading from Madras to other parts of Hindu India where orthodoxy is not so strong. Nationwide prohibition has long been...
*"Ste-pee-nats" in Yugoslavia; "Step-i-nak" in White Plains. Said Cardinal Spellman during the building campaign: "I don't care how you pronounce it, so long as we have the school." *The annual pay of New York public schoolteachers ranges from $2,500 to $5,400. *Despite...