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...Vatican City last week Pope Pius XI appointed Very Rev. Francis J. Monaghan, president of Seton Hall College in South Orange, N. J., to be Coadjutor Bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y. with the right of succession to that upstate see now administered by Bishop Joseph Henry Conroy, 77. Affable Monsignor Monaghan, 45, was ordained in 1915 from the North American College in Rome, alma mater of many an able U. S. prelate...
...Paul's Cathedral in London, 1,000 worshippers gawped when a shapely young woman of 25 walked to the altar, threw off a long cloak, knelt stark naked, was hustled out. In Rome where Pope Pius XI remained in ailing privacy Easter was the quietest in years. In Moscow, 60,000 die-hard citizens, oldish and mostly women, packed the city's 28 surviving churches...
...Palm Sunday last week, Pope Pius XI accepted a plaited, elaborately decorated palm branch from a member of the Bresca family of San Remo, which since 1585 has clung to its perquisite of supplying palms to pontiffs. This week, when the rest of Christendom joyously concludes its 40-day Lenten fast, Rome and the Pope were to pass their quietest Easter in years. Because of Sanctions and European unrest, few tourists or pilgrims arrived in Rome for Holy Week. Because of the war in Ethiopia, the faithful who thronged St. Peter's Square on the off-chance the Holy...
...Maundy Thursday Pius XI was to join his Court & Cardinals in a two-hour service in the Sistine and Pauline chapels, culminating when a consecrated Host, in a priceless ancient chalice of rock crystal studded with precious stones and etched with 13 scenes of the Passion of Our Lord, is placed on Solemn Exposition. On Good Friday, day of mourning, the Pope would neither wear his episcopal ring nor bless those who worshipped with him. In solemn procession he would return to the Pauline chapel, then bear the Host back to the Sistine chapel for the Mass of the Presanctified...
...bothered by any of the 20 doctors who comprise the Vatican staff, though he is said to be suffering from endocarditis, an inflammation of the membrane lining the cavities of the heart. He sometimes appears bothered with heaviness of the limbs, must be discreetly supported by attendants. Though Pius XI still orates with vigorous gestures and mobile expression (see cut), he has lately surprised groups of pilgrims by seating himself, talking at unwonted length. Vatican attendants last week looked forward to the end of heavy schedules and a good summer's rest for the Holy Father at Castel Gandolfo...