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...predecessor and patron, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, Vatican Secretary of State under two popes for 15 years, framer of the Lateran Treaty between the Italian state and the Vatican, gave the young Cardinal his blessing, then retired to his stately villa (a present from Pope Pius) where he can sit in the sun, busy himself for the rest of his life with canonical law. By order of Il Duce, every public building in Italy was flag-draped to celebrate two simultaneous Catholic milestones; the first anniversary of the Lateran Treaty, the eighth anniversary of Pius XI's Pontificate...
Died. John J. McGrane, 80, railroader, jeweler, real estate developer, Papal Knight of St. Gregory the Great; in Manhattan. Adviser to Cardinals Merry del Val, Bisleti, Gasparri (see p. 23), he was decorated by Popes Leo XIII, Pius X, Benedict...
Ever since he ascended the Papal throne in 1922 Pope Pius XI has employed every weapon in his spiritual arsenal to stop Russia's cold-blooded anti-religion campaign. He has placed Russia under the particular care of St. Therese. His commission on Russian affairs has forged new and special weapons of prayer, indulgence, invocation, propaganda. Last week His Holiness startled all Europe with a bitter denunciation. To his vicar general, Cardinal Basilic Pompili, Bishop of Velletri, he wrote...
...Vatican City everyone above the rank of friar seems to know. Last Christmastide Pope Pius XI created Manhattan's Macdonald a Marquis. Came news last week of elaborate celebrations of his elevation to the Papal peerage...
Engagement Rumored. Tsar Boris Clement Robert Marie Pius Louis Stanislas Xavier of Bulgaria; and Princess Kyra Cyrilovna, daughter of Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich, pretender to the throne of the late Tsar Nicholas II; at Paris...