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...priest, hurried last week into the great building which houses the Nationalrat (Parliament) in Vienna. As he passed through gloomy corridors only the sharp-eyed saw at this seeming-priest's throat the purple rabat of a monsignor. None the less all present bowed with respect to Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. He had just been created?for the second time;? Chancellor (Premier) of Austria. He is thus at present the sole Christian prelate to head a civil government...
...claims of 191 are established-22 denied. The most imposing beatifications in centuries took place last week at St. Peter's. The reading of the papal decree, proclaiming these martyrs blessed, fell appropriately to Mgr. Gromier, French Prelate, and preceded the pontifical mass. Then his Holiness, Pius XI, in snowy white, seated in the sedia gestatoria (sanctified chair) and escorted by twenty cardinals in scarlet, was borne through enormous crowds-full diplomatic corps and all other distinguished Rome-to the basilica, to venerate the newly canonized. Incense rose, heads bowed, throngs cheered...
Quickly after his arrival Cardinal Hayes went to the Vatican with Mgr. Stephen J. Donahue, secretary of the N. Y. archdiocese, and Father J. Francis A. McIntyre, assistant chancellor and also actuary of the matrimonial court of that archdiocese. These the Cardinal was obliged to leave outside as he proceeded to the Pope's library, a promenade interrupted by the greeting of the Swiss Guards and the gendarmes at the Vatican entrance, in the Court of St. Damascus, and in Clementine Hall. In the library the Cardinal started to fall on his knees at the Pope's feet...
...beamed Dutch politicians became heatedly vocal last week over an amendment to the budget passed by the Second Chamber,* which provides for the abolition of the Legation representing the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the Vatican. The amendment was introduced by a Calvinist; and at once the Catholic leader, Mgr. Nolens, became vehement and loudly threatened to wreck the present coalition government if the measure passed. Immediately upon its adoption, the four Catholic members of Premier Colijn's Cabinet resigned. The Dutch press united in scoring both sides for debasing so important an ecclesiastical issue to the level...
Archbishop of Cincinnati. Mgr. Joseph...