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When His Holiness Pope Pius XI dismembered the Canadian Archdiocese of Regina last year and gave 24,000 Roman Catholics their own diocese of Gravelbourg, he chose as first bishop a 46-year-old priest named Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve. Last week the Pope elevated Bishop Villeneuve from Gravelbourg to Quebec-a prodigious leap in the hierarchy, for the Archbishop of Quebec (most venerable see in North America) is traditionally made a Cardinal. Untraditionally youthful, Archbishop Villeneuve is regarded as certain to get, at the next papal consistory, the red hat of Quebec's late Felix Raymond Marie Cardinal...
Died. Henry Heide, 85, president of Henry Heide Inc.. candy manufacturers; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. A generous Roman Catholic charitarian, a Knight of the Order of Pius IX, first class, he received the Apostolic blessing from Pope Pius XI just before he died...
...Geneva Pacifist Gandhi stopped briefly with his French biographer. Pacifist Remain Rolland (Nobel Prize for Literature 1915), hoped to be received by Pope Pius XI before sailing from Brindisi for India...
Ever since Italian schools opened this year Catholic teachers have been writing to Pope Pius XI. What was the Holy Father's opinion, they asked, of the Italian requirement that every school-teacher take an oath of allegiance to "the King, his royal successor, and the Fascist regime," when His Holiness in his encyclical of last July had condemned the Fascist oath of allegiance and urged Catholics to take it "with mental reservations...
Honored. Martin Henry Carmody, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus; appointed "private gentleman-in-waiting of cape & sword" to His Holiness Pope Pius XI; in Rome...