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...Peter's, hung with red-&-gold draperies and flaming with myriad chandeliers, are to crowd Roman and foreign notables, thousands of plain folk and pilgrims from all lands. On its lofty walls they behold enormous oil paintings of Bernadette Soubirous and her good works in life. Pope Pius XI enters, in triple crown and embroidered white cope, borne aloft on his sedia gestatoria. He proceeds to the altar, followed by cardinals, archbishops, patriarchs, bishops, monsignori and priests, who kiss his ring and the cross on his slipper. The air is heavy with incense...
...Rome. Of all places Commissar Litvinoff chose the city of Pope Pius XI and of Benito Mussolini as his next destination. Just before sailing from Manhattan on the crack Italian liner Conte de Savoía he lost his hat twice in a wild mêlée of Communist sympathizers and autograph hunters, retrieved it a second time with the merry cry, ''Ah-at last I have caught your American tempo...
...Catholic Action" agency, he began teaching philosophy at Catholic University in 1922. Six years later Pope Pius XI appointed him rector. Founded some 40 years ago, Catholic University is the only one in the U. S. controlled by the Pope and the U. S. hierarchy. It is designated to meet non-Catholic universities on their own ground, but not all Catholics have supported it or given as much money to annual collections as the clergy could wish. Rector Ryan reorganized it, gave it a new constitution. Despite criticism from within the church he admitted women to the Graduate School, increased...
During an audience in Vatican City, Pope Pius XI told 450 jobless Englishmen: ''If the Divine Providence caused you to be deprived of work. He did it for your own good. Being without work, you therefore will be all the more appreciative of work when it returns...
...Manhattan at the culminating banquet of the 19th National Conference of Catholic Charities. Not immediately concerned with money-raising (handled by individual dioceses) the Conferences deal with practical problems of sociology and welfare work. Called by New York's Patrick Cardinal Hayes under the patronage of Pope Pius XI, this year's Conference coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, an unobtrusive organization of laymen who care for the poor, working mainly with small donations dropped in the poor-boxes in all Catholic churches...