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...Roman Catholic Church, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of New York, had extraordinary priestly duties to perform. Clothed with vast and holy power, attended in proud dignity by a princely retinue, the Archbishop of New York set forth on an errand imposed upon him last month by His Holiness Pope Pius XI. Symbolically dispatched from the Pope's side and armed with all that Pontiff's authority and precedence. Cardinal Hayes was Legatus a latere to the Seventh National Eucharistic Congress, held this week in Cleveland...
...openly on parade. To Catholics the spiritual benefits of Eucharistic Congresses have become obvious in the 32 international ones which have been held since 1881. Years ago the annual council of U. S. Catholic bishops voted to hold Congresses regularly every four years, chose Cleveland for the first. Pope Pius approved by naming the first legate who has represented him at a national U. S. Congress...
This summer Rachel McDowell got a three-weeks' vacation instead of her usual two. She resolved to go to Italy "to kneel before the Sovereign Pontiff," Pope Pius XI. From one of her most useful Manhattan contacts, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Miss McDowell begged a letter smoothing the way. She did not neglect to pray, both before and afterward, at the high altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral. How Presbyterian McDowell's prayers were answered she told last week in an account of her trip in the Catholic News. Excerpts...
...majordomo. She wondered if perhaps someone would tell the Holy Father that "for 27 years I have written virtually all the leading Catholic news in the New York Times." Finally the Pope appeared. The roomful of people knelt as he made the sign of the cross. Then Pius XI began making his rounds while Rachel McDowell anxiously hoped he would not skip...
...wiry, bespectacled prelate, wearing no cope but kneeling with mitre in hand. Over the head of the kneeler Bishop Cantwell slipped a white wool band decorated with black crosses-a pallium. Thus invested with the sacred symbol which signifies that he shares the supreme pastoral power of His Holiness Pius XI, San Francisco's new Archbishop John Joseph Mitty arose, blessed his flock...