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Among the 60-odd patrons of 60-odd Roman churches who wear, throughout the world, the red and the rank of Cardinals of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, there are always some whose eminence is peculiarly conspicuous. The present generation dimly recollects Manning of England, vividly recalls Gibbons of Baltimore, still boasts Mercier of Belgium and him whose country is his church, Merry Cardinal...
...Roman Catholic prelates often aver that no Cardinal desires to be Pope. If, as the world insists, Merry del Val was an exception to this rule, it is also probable that he now says the rule was wise. For surely the after-middle-years would have been robbed of all felicity had Merry del Val labored, as Pope, to be as great as he has been Cardinal...
...Worcester, Mass., is a Roman Catholic college of renown-Holy Cross. In the college is a library, in the library a librarian. The latter, by recent appointment, is one Foster W. Stearns...
...follows then that the book runs the gamut of the sad story of the explosion of the last remnant of the Holy Roman Empire. One marvels, in view of all the enormous difficulties with which Count Burián had to contend, how the Austrian Government (the Hungarian Government voted against war) ever dared to expose the tottering Empire to what was a known peril...
...Roman Pontiff, on the other hand, rarely exercises his infallibility; and when he does so it is after mature consideration and with most expert advice...