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...reported from Rome that Pope Pius XI will soon hold a consistory (senate composed of Pope and Cardinals). It is uncertain whether he will create any new cardinals...
...accordance with the request of 28 Cardinals, Pope Pius XI began the procedure for the beatification and subsequent canonization of his predecessor, Pope Pius X, by appointing postulators. The function of the postulators is to prove that Pius X performed "an heroic degree" the three theological virtues-faith, hope, charity- and the four cardinal virtues-prudence, justice, courage, temperance. The Abbe Pierami, procurator general of the Valombrosan Benedictines, was elected chief postulator for Italy. It is stated that all the Sacred College living in Rome, with the exception of Cardinal Pompili, who as Vicar of Rome must be the judge...
...spectacle of German athletes in the Grand Parade of the Nations might stir more than the memories of those present in the Paris Stadium. Russia, too, was barred. By invitation of President Masaryk of the CzechoSlovak Republic, the Olympic Congress of 1925 will be held in Prague. Pope Pius granted an audience to the International Olympic Committee and praised their efforts for clean, moral sport...
...Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, eager to join with Einstein in debate. (P. 21.) Mr. Taft's reputation, deemed "spotless" even by sensational publishers. (P. 24.) Stambuliski-hoisting communism by its own petard. (P. 12.) Justice Holmes-radical! (P. 3.) The prospective canonization of the late Pope Pius X. (P. 19.) Jack Dempsey, coal-miner and coal operator. (P. 23.) The return of a Roosevelt to health and activity...
Pope Leo XIII, link between the 19th and 20th centuries, laid down the dogmatic system of Aquinas as the " norm" of Roman Catholic teaching. Pius X, in 1907, blasted all " modernism" by an encyclical (Pascendi Dominici) which emphasized the central Catholic idea of Authority. Abbe Loisy in France, Father Tyrrell in England, and Father Zahm in America were promptly excommunicated. Whether or not the Vatican has merely scotched the snake, modernism (in the " dangerous " sense) is not now visible within its broad domains. Hilaire Belloc, brilliant Catholic now visiting America, tells the world it needs Authority, which means dogma personified...