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Soon after his consecration, Bishop Spellman was received privately by Pope Pius XI, whose words he had often translated into English, notably in the first international papal broadcast last year, and in the encyclical on "Catholic Action," which Monsignor Spellman carried to Paris, translating as he went. Last week the Pope affectionately recalled that on the same day, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, he himself had taken possession of the Archbishopric of Milan. Then Pius XI received Bishop Spellman's relatives, gave the men gold medals, the women rosaries. Bishop Spellman got a large...
...Negro communicants were greeted by Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, St. Patrick's rector, who said: "You are fellow citizens with the saints. . . . There is no one that we welcome with more outstretched arms than we do you." They heard Bishop Dunn read a cablegram of blessing from Pope Pius XI, adding "I am thrilled to my very soul. . . ." Then the 4,000 Negroes went to a communion breakfast at the Palm Garden, Eighth Avenue...
...Stanley High discovers many a religious angle to non-religious news items. In last week's broadcast he spoke of the Children's Bureau in Washington, of the low position of children in Rome in the 2nd Century, of Sunday School as a "depression-proof institution." Pope Pius XI's plans to build more churches in Rome led Dr. High to consider the Pope's achievements, the Vatican art collection, U. S. S. R.'s treatment of religious...
Superior General of the Order of St. Sulpice, Father Jean Vedier visited the U. S. in 1923. Born of a modest family, he was a scholarly, obscure teacher until Pope Pius XI jumped him over innumerable bishops and made him Archbishop and Cardinal (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929). First Sulpician ever to get a red hat, Cardinal Verdier was invested by Pius XI in person. He is currently in the U. S. on a tour of Sulpician houses. Though fluent in French, German and Italian, he speaks little English, has for interpreter and traveling companion Very Rev. John F. Fenlon, superior...
...Pope Pius XI decided to install electric heating in the Vatican Palaces...