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...Congress. Since 1881, under the guidance of this Committee, 32 great gatherings of Catholics had been held, as religious demonstrations against secularization, in such great cities as London, Chicago, Sydney, Buenos Aires, in such holy places as Lourdes and Jerusalem. The 33rd Eucharistic Congress, agreed the Committee and Pope Pius XI, would go to Manila in the Philippines, "Pearl of the Orient" not only to travel agents but, in the most spiritual sense, to the Church which shepherds 82% of its 18,000,000 souls, proudly claims them as the only Christian nation of the East...
Last month as preparations for the Manila Congress went forward, Pius XI lay racked with pain, dying some thought, in his third-floor chamber in the Vatican. To his bedside one day went a visitor who could not be put off, an old friend and trusted servant from across the Atlantic: Dennis Joseph Cardinal Dougherty, 71, Archbishop of the See of Philadelphia (824,250 Catholics), Metropolitan of the Province of Philadelphia (2,080,788 souls in six Sees), Titular Priest of Rome's Church of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo, member of the Congregations of the Sacraments, of Sacred Rites...
...modesty and purity," a League of Modesty was founded two years ago by Roman Catholics in Chicago. Last week this League, headed by a Franciscan named Rev. Celestine Strub, presented a Modest Woman's Creed based upon the preachings of Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, Vicar General of Pope Pius XI. Recommended to all good Catholic women, it urges...
...student at the Royal Hungarian Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Thirty-three-year-old Viktor Vaszy directs the chorus. He also directs the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and is known in Hungary as a composer of distinction. He likes to boast of the time the chorus sang Mass with Pope Pius XI during Holy Year (1925). The Pope was so pleased that he gave them a large gold cross and special diplomas. Two years later the students of Rome University got so excited over them that they founded a similar organization at Rome...
...ineffable patient of the Vatican's Dr. Aminta Milani has proved a difficult one. Long known to be gruffly impatient of other people's illnesses, so that wise underlings kept out of his sight when ailing, Pius XI resolutely declined to undergo a thorough physical examination. He not only was shocked at the idea of appearing naked before anyone but even balked at having his pulse counted, until lately Dr. Milani managed to excite his interest in the technique of this simple operation. One story ladled out last fortnight by the "Vatican Voices" was that for no less...