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...July 18, 1932). Bishop Kearney's first task in Rochester may be to find a new cathedral site. Presumably planning expansion, Eastman Kodak Co. announced last week it was negotiating to purchase St. Patrick's Cathedral and nearby Catholic property. Before the sale can be closed, Pope Pius XI must give permission, arrange to have the Cathedral's holy ground deconsecrated...
...Reich. Last week on the Führer's orders Bavarian Minister of Interior Adolf Wagner closed every Catholic public school in Bavaria, fired 670 teachers, secularized 966 schools. This was in flagrant violation of the Nazi Concordat with the Vatican (TIME, July 17, 1933 and ailing Pope Pius, attended by twelve cardinals, was reported to feel that an open diplomatic rupture between the Hooked-Cross (Swastika) and the Cross cannot be much longer avoided. Meanwhile the great bulk of German Protestants who, like the Catholics, are resisting Nazi encroachments in spiritual matters as best they can, were subjected...
...Daily Worker in Union Square. Radical Catholics Day & Maurin maintain a House of Hospitality and an Easton, Pa. farm commune for Catholic proletarians. What they call "the dynamite of Catholic teaching" and submit as an alternative to Communism is contained in the labor encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI, the most timely point being that both pontiffs agreed that workers have not only the right but the duty to organize in unions of their choice...
...Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius XI had turned from the confused course of Europe to consider the state of his Church in the U. S. Last week he commanded that a new, 17th archdiocese be established in Detroit. To it he assigned the 600,000-odd Catholics of that diocese, the 148,000 of Grand Rapids-both dioceses having been in the Province of Cincinnati-and some 87,000 of Marquette, heretofore part of the province of Milwaukee. Thus the Detroit archdiocese becomes the fifth largest in the U. S. Within it the Pope set up a new diocese, Lansing, 93rd...
After receiving Mr. Smith, Pius XI gave a general audience for some 400 newly weds and pilgrims from the U. S., India, France, Germany, Canada and Spain. He honored Mr. Smith by seating him in front of the Papal throne and intoning to the throng: "We have with us today a beautiful and worthy representative of America in the person of Mr. Smith, who does honor to all he represents in America and above all to his name and profession as a son of the Catholic Church. ... A man about whom there has been much discussion in important...