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...charge of arranging audiences and the like, was made a Monsignor. When Edward L. Hearn, onetime Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, wished to build 27 K. of C. playgrounds in Rome in honor of Pope Benedict XV, it was Monsignor Spellman who smoothed the way. When Pope Pius XI made his first international radio broadcast last year (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931), it was Monsignor Spellman who translated the Holy Father's words into English, taking pains to speak them in the manner of U. S. announcers. When the Pope's encyclical on "Catholic Action...
...Pope Pius XI. while not directly replying to Laborite Lansbury. caused him to be received in audience by that English Prince of the Church. Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster...
Paris and London newspapers reported that Pope Pius XI had received Father Cox privately. The Vatican took pains last week, in its official Osservatore Romano, to correct this impression. Father Cox, it said, was merely present with other pilgrims at a public audience. "He neither had a chance to talk with the Pope nor receive the Pope's approval. He has not spoken with any one at the Vatican regarding his candidacy, neither is any one at the Vatican interested therein...
...West awaits one thing more - a red hat. For two years there have been ru mors of a consistory at which His Holiness Pope Pius XI would add to the College of Cardinals, depleted now from 70 to 54.- Almost certain to be nominated are two North American prelates, Quebec's Arch bishop Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve. successor to the late Felix Raymond Marie Cardinal Rouleau; and busy 71-year-old Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna of San Francisco, who got for his coadjutor Salt Lake's Mitty, now replaced by The Bronx's Kearney...
Other Catholic dioceses are not compelled to follow Rome's lead. But they will doubtless take heed, look within their churches with an equally critical eye, for Rome's regulation comes from one who is the vicar of Rome's Bishop, who is Pope Pius XI, vicar of Jesus Christ...