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Cardinal Hayes was swift to approve, swift to perceive what a stroke of churchmanship the plan was. For on Passion Sunday morning in Rome, Pope Pius XI was, with highest ceremonial, to inaugurate the extraordinary Holy Year which he announced last Christmas and explained last month as a means for "spiritual raising up of hearts and minds . . . universal concert of good works and prayers. . . . We propose to pray every day and we invite everyone to do so with us." Coupling President Roosevelt's New Deal with the Pope's Holy Year would be churchmanship indeed. And no church...
Holy Years or Jubilees are regularly proclaimed by the Pope every quarter-century. In 1925 more than 500,000 pilgrims, counting only organized groups, were drawn to Rome. Energetic Pius XI has had two good reasons for two extraordinary Jubilees. In happy 1929 it was the 50th anniversary of his ordination. This troubled year it is (by most calculations) the igooth anniversary of the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ. As a Holy Year it should turn even the most casual Christian to thoughts of his Savior. Whatever material improvement the year may bring, may, after prayer, honestly be attributed...
...Vatican City last week there were holy stirrings, preparatory to the Holy Year which His Holiness Pope Pius XI is to inaugurate next fortnight. Six Roman Catholic prelates learned last month that they were to be raised to the cardinalate. Two of them set out at once from Canada and the U. S. But none was officially apprised of the fact until last week, when Pius XI held the first secret consistory of the Sacred College since June...
...Fossati, Archbishop of Turin; Most Rev. Angelo Maria Dolci, papal nuncio to Rumania; Most Rev. Elia Delia Costa, Archbishop of Florence. Non-Italian cardinals created were Most Rev. Jean-Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec and Most Rev. Theodor Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. It was said last week that Pius XI presented two more names to the consistory, which would hold them secret until a second gathering later during the Holy Year...
Silver trumpetings, chantings of choirs, parades in regalia preceded the consistory. Pius XI delivered an allocution on the state of the world and listed his joys and sorrows since the last consistory. Solemnly he declared that, as remedy for the world's troubles, he alone had indicated "sound and solid principles, charity and justice and fundamental indestructible truths and teachings on the value of souls. . . ." He invited all nations to "consider what serious moral, intellectual and even material disaster is inevitably being prepared wherever the Church is openly or covertly combatted." One sorrow the Pope mentioned was the Orthodox...