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...those who watch over Premier Mussolini's household whispered and nodded wisely to each other. "It's the man in black," they said. They further identified him as Father Tacchi-Venturi, a little-known priest without rank or official authority but a trusted confidant of both Pope Pius XI and Il Duce. Six years ago, some of them remembered, he had been attacked in his study, stabbed in the back. Two years later another priest who looked like him was assassinated. Devious and romantic. Father Tacchi-Venturi has busied himself with the highest diplomacy for the past...
...Railways, an associate of the National Flood Relief Commission. Railman Baker has already had much experience in flood relief work. The Standard Oil, the British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd., the Bank of China, the Millers' Association offered to cooperate, helped with preliminary plans. From the Vatican Pope Pius XI sent some...
Least populous of States, Nevada was the last to have no Catholic diocese of its own. His Holiness Pope Pius XI gave it one last April, appointed Dr. Gorman to be Bishop. Born in Pasadena, Calif, in 1892, Dr. Gorman had taken the degree Doctor of Historical Sciences at the University of Louvain, Belgium, had been assigned to several Southern California parishes, had edited since 1926 the diocesan paper Tidings. Consecrated in St. Vibiana Cathedral in Los Angeles (he will be installed in Reno this month), he was the first local priest to be elevated to the episcopacy...
...Vatican to see Pope Pius XI last week went 50 pilgrims-ladies all in black, including Mrs. Philip A. Brennan, president of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae; Mrs. James J. Sheeran, its co-founder and president of the Seton Committee; and gentlemen in tailcoats and black ties, including Biographer Father Code. A dozen similar audiences were to follow. To lend ecclesiastical prestige came Mother-General Marie LeBrun of the Sisters of Charity of Paris, Cardinals Donatus Sbarretti and Bonaventure Cerretti, Bishop John Joseph McMahon of Trenton, N. J. and Rev. Giuseppe Scognamillo of Rome, postulator (advocate) of Mother Seton...
...Less Grave." In the Vatican, Pope Pius pondered the Fascist retort. He was disturbed by the extent of the controversy which has raged ever since Lavoro Fascista charged editorially that the Vatican's 15,000 Catholic Action clubs were meddling in politics and the Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, made it a political war (TIME, June 8 et seq.). The Pope was more disturbed by the manner in which his encyclical had been interpreted as a challenge. After he had pored over Mussolini's retort, he let it be announced that he felt relieved. The Vatican spokesman said...