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Since King Boris is Bulgarian Orthodox and Princess Giovanna is Roman Catholic, their matching has been obstructed by the Vatican for years. On behalf of Pope Pius XI it was denied last week that he had been asked to grant a special dispensation. While King Boris appeared to have won his main point, the marriage contract will provide that all children born to Princess Giovanna will be reared as Roman Catholics except the heir to the Throne who must, according to the Bulgarian constitution, be Bulgarian Orthodox...
...will soon get a fifth cardinal, according to last week's Vatican City despatches, to rank with William Henry O'Connell (Boston), Denis Joseph Dougherty (Philadelphia), George William Mundelein (Chicago), Patrick Joseph Hayes (New York City). The candidate in Pope Pius XI's mind is "from an archdiocese toward the West." That points to Edward Joseph Hanna, 70, Archbishop of San Francisco...
...born). He had studied at Rome, Cambridge and Munich and there had absorbed much of the modernized philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (Thornism), philosophy which Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) approved. But Thomism leads, if unrestrained, to dangerous questioning of Roman Catholic dogma, to what Leo's successor Pius X (1903-14) called pernicious "modernism...
...preach, teach and missionize. Master General Gillet's visit to the U. S. was chiefly to inspect the work of his chief subordinates in this country. Those chiefs are Very Rev. Raymond Meagher of Manhattan, provincial of all Dominicans east of the Rocky Mountains, and Very Rev. Pius M. Driscoll of San Francisco, provincial west of the Rockies. They have about 600 fathers, clerical students and lay brothers working under them. The Dominican Missions at Fall River, Mass, and Lewiston, Me. are under the jurisdiction of Very Rev. Alphonse Langlais of Montreal, provincial of Canada. Those at New Orleans...
Authoress Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1928) with her tril- ogy, Kristin Lavransdatter. She was the third Norwegian to win it. (Others: Bjornstjerne Bjornson, 1903; Knut Hamsun, 1920.) A convert to Roman Catholicism, she was decorated "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" by Pope Pius XI. She has also written Jenny...