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the ANNIVERSARY REGISTER Pontiff Continues Labors to Very End; Had (N«m «~ftttlittrtd In the U. S. Patent Ofllce) Suffered Almost Ceaselessly for Past Two Years E . XV. No. 8. DENVER, COLO., SUM IAY, FEB. 19, 1939 T W O CENTS j Vatican City.— (Special)— With his feehle hand up- tuning Ceremony at Vatican Described i raised in benediction and with a prayer for peace on his ' lip.R, Pope Pius XI, 261st Vicar of Christ on Earth, the Pope of Peace, ended his long and fruitful reign as Supreme Pontiff. Seventeen years before, he had dedicated his reign or 1st Time All Cardinals to peace with the words, "Pius is the name of peace— then Pius shall be my name,” and since then he had labored for ■Se peace and justice and charity. As death came near, the Pon In U. S. to Help Elect Pope tiff who had several times recently offered his life as a .sac rifice for accord among men spoke his last words: "Jesus and For the first time in history all The election of a Pope is a solemn ' Mary— peace to the world.” the American Cardinals will par ritual, governed by centuries-old’ Thus, worn out with his ceaseless labors for religipn ticipate in the election o f a Pope legislation— a ceremony on which ■ and for all humankind, his aged body racked with over two .ISTENING IN at the conclave that will choose will largely depend the history of, I years of almost constant suffering, Pope Pius died of cardiac Pius Xr.s successor, and one o f the the Church in coming years and j three American Princes of the one fo r whose result the whole | ' asthma in the early morning two days before the 17th anni riip death o f Pope Pius XI Church belongs to the governing world waits with anxiety. versary of his coronation. Fulfilling his promise to continue body of four who direct the affairs bioves from the chair of St. U. S. Cardinal* Leaye for Rome his labors up to the very end, the Pope in the short days of o f the Holy See in the inter-regnum. When word of Pope Pius’ death his last illness was still making plans for his audience with kerune o f the strongest char* The three are William Cardinal came to America, the three Car the Italian Bishops on the tenth anniversary of the signing Irrs who ever occupied it. O’C'onnell, A'rchbishop o f Boston dinals immediately began prepara tREj rs io come may apply to him and, as the first-ranking Cardinal tions to sail for Rome. of the Lateran treaty with Italy and for the ceremonies Priest, one o f the ruling commis 'E 43li| name not infrequently A t his winter home in Nassau, marking his coronation jubilee. sion; Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Bahama islands. Cardinal O’Con f>n during his l^ntiScale— Archbishop of Philadelphia, and nell arranged to return to the Condemned Abuses But Ji« the Great. Neve* was the George Cardinal Mundelein, Arch United States and book passage Loved A ll the People Ipnry held in higher regard bishop of Chicago and the la.<;t fo r Rome. Twice before he reached American Cardinal who saw Pope the Eternal City just too late to From beginning to end of his 17-year reign, Pius XI under him. He easily Pius X I alive. take part in the conclave, and it devoted himself to the cause of peace. When he bitterly con [iks with the dozen most emi* was largely because ^of his dis demned atheistic Communism and pagan Naziism. he spoke hi men who have worn the appointment over missing the elec his love for the Russian and German peoples. He prayed pie crown as Vicar of Jesus tion of Pius XI that the time fqr opening the conclave was extended that the people subjected to the tyranny of godless govern irist on earth. IN U . S. from ten to 15, or, at the most, 18 ment would be given the peace of Christ, that they would days. I be returned to the religion of their fathers, that they would ■Sixty years o f his life were Cardinal Mundelein, who re have all God’s blessings on their lives. He loved all men. m i ^nt in m inor positions. He turned from the Vatican only at the end o f November, was vacation I His last words recalled his statement of a few months Salef I an old man before he was H O N O R E D ing in Florida when he learned of ago: "While.millions of men are living in an.xiet.v because psecrated to the Episcopacy, the Pope’s death. He le ft at once Pictured above are His Holiness, Pius XI, 261st Pontiff, and his coat o f arms. I of the imminent danger of war and the threat of disaster I was a (Cardinal only a few fo r New York to sail on the Italian and ruin without precedent, we receive in our fatherly Inths before he became the liner, Rex, on Feb. 11 with Cardinal IN PIOS' REIGN Dougherty. Cardinal Mundelein heart with tremulous feelings our numerous sons. With all llr Father. From the mo- shrugged off as unimportant his Accomplishments Extraordinary our heart, we offer our.Relves for the health and peace of the Int he broke precedent by own slight illness o f a stomach dis I world.” ^ng his blessing to the (Copyright. NCWC N*w« 8«rvlet) order. The Catholic Church in the rung in St. Peter’s square Cardinal Pacelli in Charge I H’fr.s Serene ERS United States was signally honored A fte r the death of the Pope, the iht after his election, the in the Pontificate of Pope Pius Biography Shows Pius XI ‘ In Last Moments Cardinal Camerlengo, who is now flinlic world knew that he XI. Eugenio Cardinal PaccIIi, becomes ' After fighting off a dangerous illness at the end of last d hr man who could l>e ex* Pope Pius XI’s first official first in authority. Acting with him Xovember, the Pope had continued his normal round of work document, given less than a month are the highest ranking members at tile Vatican. On E'cb. 7, 17 years and one day after his hed to do things in a way after his election, w'ts a .Ifotu o f the three classes o f Cardinals. Greatest Man of Period election and his self-dedication to peace, the Pope was taken Lt would make even stern Prop rio altering the Constitution, These three are (ienaro Cardinal kiition vicld to common Vacanfe Sede Apoatolica, so as to Pignatclli di . Belmonte, Cardinal ill. At fir.st he was thought to be suffering only a cold from give the American Cardinals and Bishop; .Cardinal O’Connell, Cardi Pope Pius, 261st successor to St. o f which will undoubtedly place i t ' Brianaa, the fourth Ron nf Francis which he would soon recover. On Feb. 9 came a series of others living at some distance time nal Priest, and Camillo Cardinal Peter, whose Pontificate has em in the fo refro n t o f historical ac and . Terpsa«• (G alli) Ratti. uHe - heart attacks, from the first of which he rallied for a time. to arrive at the Vatican fo r the Caccia-Dominioni, Cardinal* Dea counts o f the period. ‘PLNGl I hen the .writer spent election of the Pope. The last con. I f no Pope is chosen in the braced one o f the most trying pe birth!''recei'vhiK the ^naraes'''Am-' And then early On the morninft of Feb. 10, the Holy Father. encyclical of Pope Pius XI, Vi- riod* in the world's history, is en broRp Damian Achille. a n o in tin j; kut three months in Rome first three davs of the conclave, (B y Mscr. E nrico Prcci, Copy i well kpowinir that death waa et hand, received the pitaAti Cunt, dealing with motion the second-ranking mcmbei** o f the titled to be ranked ua the greatest [It in 193.5, he lived at the A fte r Achille Ratti had become i of E.xtreme Unction and then with his last breath spoke his »ictures, was addressed particu- three divisions of the Sacred Col world figure of his time and one right, N C W C News Service) Pensione San Carlo, Pope Pius X I was 60 years o f Pope Pius XI, the house iii “ hicb prayer for peace. He was serene in death, ready for the farly to the Archbishops and lege take over the dut>'* o f assist of the great men o f all time. he wa» born waa purchaRed by the , to Pap, , -C olum n 1) ere the I.«ombard college Bishops of the United States. ing the Camerlengo. The commis Had he accompIi.«hed but one o f age and had exorcised his sacred Brothers Gavazzi. prominent man- kd to be located. Plus \1 Cardinal O’Connell, Archbishop sion o f four directs all ordinary the half-dozen or more outstand ministry in the priesthood fo r 27 ufacturers o f Dcsio, and presented 1 ' " ~ years before he was created a kd for a time In that col o f Boston, and Cardinal Dougherty. matters. Extraordinary business is ing things for which his Pontificate to the Holy Father. The houRe' Hitler Orders Flags at Half-Mast Archbishop of Philadelphia — the handled by all the Cardinals acting is noted, it would have been suf Domestic Prelate. Later, after he was transformed into an orphan NITUUl and often aaid Mass in only tw'o American Cardinals at together. ficient to make his occupancy of had entered the Papal diplomatic age, and the room in which the i J chapel aa a young priest. the time— both arrived at the Vati The Cardinal Penitentiary, who the Chair o f Peter distinguished in service, he became successively Pope was born became a chapel, j Illirilled ua no end as we can too late for the conclave that attends the dying Pope and gives the history o f even so command Apostolic Visitor to Poland, Papal In the principal square o f Desio World’s Leaders Present elected Pope Pius XI. The Holy the firs t absolution a fter death, re ing a fo rce a.s the Papacy. Taken Nuncio to Poland, Archbishop, and stands a majestic monument, also | .Mass daily where he had Father assured both the Cardinals mains in office until the new Pope together, these accomplishments Cardinal within three short years. the g ift o f Messrs. Gavazzi, bred up the supreme sacri- that the conditions which prevented (T u rn to Page S — C o lu m n 5) constitute a reign the brilliancy Seven months after his elevation raised to Desio’s illustrious son the RES Right beside the huge their reaching Rome in time would to the .Sacred College, he was year following the settlement of Glowing Tributes to Pius crowned with the Papal tiara. [iding stands the Church of be obviated. He expressed a pro the “ Roman Question.” A small !ARMACT| Predictions Describe 7 More Popes Twice the world seemed to stand cop.v o f this monument is kept in (^arlo al Corso (on the found admiration for the American Stunned and shocked by the I Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano people, especially for their univer breathless in the midst of its own the Vatican. death of the greatest man of the visited the Pope’s bier to pi^y for pso Vmberto Primo). At sal charity. He made particular ref 1 confusion and clamor as many Family Peasants, time, Pope Piu* .XI, the leaders of the repose o f his soul. The Fascist of the altars of this erence to the saving o f the lives of ‘Angelic Pastor’ to Succeed i feared for the life of Pius XI. the world stopped short in the ' grand council postporied important brch. His Holiness as a 7,000,000 Polish children as one 1 On both occasions His Holiness, Father Became Merchant whirl o f events to pav sad but i business to express its g r ie f and I'lim to Page 4 Column 1) achievement of American charity. displaying almost miraculous re- The Ratti family came oriRinally glowing tribute to the *Pope who ■ to guarantee the complete liberty His Holiness also revealed to Car { cuperative powers, regained his from Rogeno, in upper Brianza. had wielded tremendous influence o f the Cardinals who will choose dinal Dougherty that he had once Pius XI, Say ‘Prophecies’ ' health, and plunged again into the They were peasants but passed by over the affairs o f the en tire, the next Pope, planned to visit the United States multifarious duties of his office, preference into work in the silk world. Heads of groat govern-1 Adolf Hitler. wh(9se Nazi reign to see an uncle who lived at Blooms- fitricken the first time on Dec. mills, a very flourishing industry ments. even those at enmity with I has persecuted the Church and The successor to Pope Pius X I death o f Pope Pius X I and the lissions Add burg. Pa., but that the death o f the 4, 1936, he suffered an illness in that region. Francis Ratti, the Holv See, paid their humble was severely condemned by Pius uncle prevented the trip to Amer will be Greifory X V II, the “ An coming election of his successor. both serious and excruciat father o f Pope Pius X I, raised him rc.spocts* to the Pontiff, and the ! XI. sent his condolences by special Many scholars hold the St. ica. gelic Pastor,” in whose reign the ingly painful. It was 40 days self from the position o f an hum capitals of nations eagerly awaited ' messenger, ordered German flag^ Created Two U. S. Cardinal* Malachy prophecies posthumous before he could resume his normal [812,699 Souls heretics and schismatics will be ble workman to that o f director the choice o f his successor. Great j flown at half staff, and announced Two of America’s Cardinals forgeries. activities at the Vatican. On Nov. and co-proprietor o f .eilk mills of converted and the history o f the religious leaders, non-Catholic as [that all tributes due the Hol> — Cardinal Mundelein. Archbishop Though they are without ap 25, 1938, Pope Pius was stricken the firm o f Gadda. Fermo Ratti, well as Catholic, praised the spir-. Father would be made, Church will be a glorious one. probation, the “ prophecies” have o f Chicago, and the late Cardinal shortly after offering Holy the only brother alive in a part itual leadership o f Pius X I. who Roosevelt Cables Sympathy Ten Years 'The Greek schism w ill end. So a strange correlation with factual Hayes, Archbishop of New York— Mass. His condition was alarm o f Pope* Pius X I’s reign, died early never once faltered in the defense from Washington Sec^tary ci were created in Pope Pius XI’s private “ prophecy” holds. The history. . The Irish St. Malachy ing, but two days later His Holi in 1930 at Rome. He was an in 800-year-oId “ prophecy” o f St. o f the truth and the condemna- State Cordell Hull sent President lew York.->-(Special)— Results Pontificate. Another American 800 years ago foretold some ness had recovered to such an ex dustrialist o f high standing. Hnn of error I Roosevelt's cablegram to Cardinal Y<-ar Malachy is greatly amplified by characteristic o f the life or time ■modem missionary work are Prince of the Church, Cardinal tent that he entered with mem Young Achille Ratti received I* t I J M Pacclli in Rome: “ The President nMIcat* I ■unding. Th e Missionary Union Dougherty, was chosen by His Holi the 300-year-oId “ prophecy” o f the of each Pope beginning with bers of his household into the an his first formal education in an rru ,*-**'l‘ Mourning desires me to expres.s to Your Emi- .UlLO fthe C lergy has just announced ness to be his legate to the 33rd obscure Monk of Padua, from Celestine II, who was elected in nual spiritual retreat. elementary school conducted by The Ital,.n government, jMth I profound eondoleneeR on TMl ^ in ten years, the Church has International Eucharistic Congress which all the data except the name 1143. The Monk of Padua, of The future Pope Pius X I was Father Joseph Volontieri in his which PiuR M concluded pe.vre [ death o f IHr IIolincRR. Pope Pastor Angelicus come. These after a 69-year rupture of ('hurch- le d 6,812,699 new souls in for- at Manila. whom nothing is known except born May 31, 1857, in the little own house in Desio. Although this Pius XI. His great spiritual I mission fields, including 851,- Two American priests — Arch “ prophecies” have no ecclesiastical that he lived at Padua in the town of Dcsio on the border of (Turn io Page i — Column .t) state relationR, led the ‘ and'hiR z e a 'i'fo r peaTe |in India despite the caste sys- bishop George J. Caruana and approbation, there is no necessity middle of the 18th century, listed " '" ■ '" ‘ ■mL'nuel and Queen Ekna , 705,750 in China despite Archbishop Edward Mooney—were to believe in them, and they are re- correctly the names of 19 o f the Victor 1...... ,' the hearts o f all races and creeds. and 3,691,968 in Africa, a entrusted with high diplomatic view’ed here only as. mteresting last . 20 Popes. He listed too six Germans, Italians Must Leave proclaimed an eight-day period of ’ ‘ stories in connection with the who, according to the “ prophecies,” rke |rd parallel to those days when (T u rn to P a g e t — C o lu m n A) G r j R o i T r w i t h ’drorR"o*.-ro™ nations came into the fold are to succeed Pius X I and Peter the Roman, who is to complete the U. S. Defers Recognition condolcncPR on the (jenth (h 'i “ “ iV h i' ,^!piv fo M r Piu* XI was often known, Papal dynasty at the end o f the “ Pope o f the Reconciliation with ..t W n dcenlv rman Protestant Was The Pope^ of Science, Ur.' shown a* he- made the first world. It.ly, Crown Prince Umberto and meir^^of condS^ ES broadrast from the powerful radio station in the Vatican in 1932, Pius X I— ’Intrepid Faith’ in the death o f our beloved Holy feat Friend of Pontiff the first time that a PonlifCs voire had been heard on the air. Tlie Pius X I is described in the Of Franco’s Government Father, which was sent by Your irket I broadrast reached every country in the world. Pin* XI was ultra “ prophecies” as “ Fides Intrepida” Camerlengo Excellency at the desire o f the bme.— One of the late Holy modern in hi* promotion of science, fitting the Vatican with every — “ Intrepid Faith”— and his un President o f the United States o f ber's greatest personal friends latest device. He reorganised the Pontifical Academy o f Sciences, ceasing battle against the enemies W'ashington. — (IN S ) — The in Barbastro and other cities were America. I pray you to convey to ■Protestant and a German, Dr. composed of noted scientists from all over the world.______of the faith vindicated the name United States will decline to found in a village well near Sara the President the expression o f gossa. Among the articles was the ’Most gi ■ Kehr, director-in-chief of given him in the prophecies. O f recognize the Franco regime in profound giatitude for his pai'tic’- crozier of the murdered Bishop of ■libraries of Prussia. Pius X I, the Paduan Monk ex Spain so long as Italian troops pation and that o f the American D VECEld Barbastro. ...A statement claimed: “ Here are intrepid faith anti German bombing squadrons people in our great sorrow.” da Paid to Pete aa Studenta and a terrible immolation.” The remain in occupation of Spanish printed in Social Prohlcma, nub- [Ration of Chestnut Hill college, Congress Honor* Pope ruit r piladelphia.— Communists paid terrible immolation is to lead up soil, International News service For the first time in U. S. his- utors'* $3 a day to pose as to the next Pope, the “ Pastor has been informed on high au I^iladelphia, reporting that Pedro f^r/’ Cardinal Segura y Saenz had been tor>% at the death of a spiritual lents at Columbia university, Angelicus”— the “Angelic Pastor.” thority. leader, the two houses o f Congress ublie I km F. Russel], dean of teach- “Under this Pope,” wrote Dublin. — The government o f expelled from Nationalist territory All f by Generalissimo Franco, has been met in brief session Feb. 13. ex I college, Columbia, declared. Thomas J. Reed in the Extevaion Eire has recognized the regime o f pressed official sorrow at the death Can**^* Magazine fo r May, 1937, “ the branded as untrue. ry 552
Boris o f Bulgaria; in 1932, the Proprio, entitled /n Aftrllis Solaciis. end. Under date of March 14, he Crown Prince of Ethiopia. It would Men of renown in scientific circles « i i « l VVERT CANONIZED outlined the case against the (Ger iography Shows take too long to enumerate all the o f the entire world were enrolled man nation for its violations of OTUS X I . On«-St Joljn BOSCO' visits received by Pius X I from in the academy. the Vatican-Reich concordat and ministers and heads o f govern The World Catholic Press expo upheld Christianity against the ments o f every nation. Enough to sition, held in a courtyard o f the tenets o f a rising modern pagan mention, among them all, that o f Vatican in the summer of 1930, ism. On March 18, he issued an im Outstanding Feb. 11, 19.32, on the third anni- proved the Holy P'athcr’s intense encyclical outlining the dangers to ver.sary o f the conciliation, Benito interest in the work of religious Church, family, and State in the Mu.ssoHni, head o f the governm ent journalism. spread o f atheistic Communism. o f Italy. On Easter, 1936, the Pope was On Easter Sunday, he discussed n Modern Period Observance of Holy not present fo r the P'a.ster Mass the Church-State situation in in St. Peter’s, and concern over Mexico. Years Outstanding On Easter. 1937, the Holy Fa Outstanding also in the Pontifi his health was felt throughout the world, but the Holy Fatlicr spent ther retuincd to his old custom of Jrilliant Accomplishments Make Reign One cate o f His Holines.', Pope Pius X I, ble.'^sing the pilgrims in St. Peter's have been the Holy Year o f 1925. an active Easier day. and it was announced at the Vatican that square after .Alass. Whereas in Of Extraordinary Success and the 23rd in the history o f the U»36, the I’ ope had been unable to M ('hurch, which brought hundreds of there was no cause to believe that . o '* * his health was in scriou.« condition. attend the Easter services, in 1937 Significance thousands of pilgrims to the Eter ] he did attend the Mass in St. m \ nal C ity; the celebration in 1929 He passed his 79th bi.thday with P / U S X f MS TKt fM Sr irMIAM TV SCALt ' P eter’s Basiliea and then went to lilt ( j j that marked the 50th anniversary out any letup in his program o f Icoafjntnd from Page S — Col. A) the chamber o f deputies in speak MoMTt 03SA (/SjOOO FT) IN rur AU>s a n d . ; the balcony to impart his .\postolic It fn ,l o f his ordination to the priesthood vigorous activity. Ip propose him as a model and ing of the influence of the Church ON TN£ HtrUNN JOU/tN£Y. THt F/FST EYStt TO ( benediction to the throng o f 200,- and that attracted a large number Through the summer at Castel throughout the world and of the t u m s t s in c o l f t ! 000 in the square. F ifty thou- featron for Alpinists. CTtass rue . ). o f pilgrims to Rome; and the Ex gandolfo, the Pope did take a real importance it would be to Italy 1 ‘•and were in attendance at the ilivays a Priest, Stotue o f CkriSt on. Fit- B lattc., , , traordinary Holy Year of Jubilee vacation. His routine was made to be reconciled with the Papacy. Commtmonats nts fttuS. lighter, but he continued to guiilr Mass, .«o that in all a total o f a \’ever a Pastor Commentators sought to find in which began in 19.3.3 to commem orate the 19th centenary of the i the multitudinous activities of tlic ' quarter million persons cheered Father Ratti felt himself first Cardinal Ratti’s remarks an exal Churcli and to receive pilgrims in ' the recovering Pontiff and received tation of the Pope to the detri b u t U l i i i q redemption, and which from its ' I f all and always a priest, and very beginning was marked by un- : audience. A feature of the pcri(»d his bles.eing on that day. lodicated all of the tim e le ft free ment o f Italy. The Cardinal, f Mk«re Pius XI A t the end of his summer vaea- usual success. |at Ca.'telgandoUo was his recep L hjni, after the fu lfillm ent o f his despite entreaties, refused to an- . b o f H tion of 4,000 children, representa I tion at Castelgandolfo the Pope swer these misrepresentations, but The whole o f the Pontificate o f , luties as librarian, to the sacred tHK ' Pope Piux X I has been character- . tives of Catholic .\ction through on Sept. 29, 19.37, issued an en- ninistry. He never really had a left the storm to quiet itself. out Paly, at his summer home. In j cyclical on the recitation o f the Eight years later, as Pope, he ized by his constant care to keep j •aetoral charge, but, fo r 32 years, abreast o f the times, follow ing and j September, the Pontiff expre.'^^ed Rosary to combat modern evils. kas chaplain of the Sisters of concluded the settlement o f the the belief that he might well live Through the w inter o f 1937-38, so-called Roman Question, and favoring in every way possible the Cenacle in Milan. A s chap- progress that mankind was making another five years. , he devoted much o f his attention _..i. Father Ratti did not restrict gave proof of the sincerity and i to furthering ».anonization and profoundness o f his love fo r Italy. in the fields o f science and indus- I Late in Novem ber, it was an work to the celebration of the try, and in every other manifesta- j nounced that the Holy Father, ■ beatification causes. On Easter llass and purely liturgical exer- Milan Archbishopric tion o f human intelligence and ac partly on the advice of physicians t Sunday, April 17. 19.V. he canon- i ized Sts. Andrew Bobola. Salvator ■ises. but was the counselor, Lasted l.iO Days tivity. Having known St. .John , and partly on his own initiative, Irearher, founder, and inspiration Bosco very uell in his youth. Pope j wa.i curtailing hi- ;.jblic work and ] da Horta, and Giovanni Leonard!. Cardinal Ratti’s occupancy of if very many of the beneficent Pius adopted a phrase he heard fitting his life into a new routine. On succc'^sive Sundays in Novem interprises undertaken by the sis- the Archbishopric of Milan lasted him employ one day while he was Worldwide g rie f was felt early ber he beatified Blessed Maria IHOul prs. exactly 150 days. Yet. not one showing him, in a typographical in December when it was an j Rossello, Nov. 6; Blessed Frances I' N'ml of those days passed that the Car Father Ratti’s priestly ministra- plant in the motherhouse o f the nounced that the Holy P'ather had Xavier (!abrini, Nov. 13, and Jon often manifested itself in the dinal Archbishop did not visit order at Turin, a machine that for been stricken by a localization of Blessed Dominica Mazzarello, Nov. |\iblic life of the city, and. one churches, colleges, convents, and those times was a model o f its uric acid in his le ft log and that I 20. In his reign he beatified 602 charitable institutions in his see. %d day in 1898. follow ing a kind. Don Bosco, the founder o f he had lieen unable to take part ! and canonized 39. His contacts with the civil author forkers* rebellion and its bloody the Falesians, saicl to the future in the clo.cing o f a retreat at the ities were marked with cordiality Racism Condemned uppression, he was a member of Pontiff: “ Always wi?h to he in the Vatican. Eater it w;*s announced citizens’ committee that called and courtesy. A memorable hap that the Pon tiff had suffered a i And Jews Defended pening in the course of his brief advance guard of progress.’’ ipon General Bava Bcccaris, the Pope Pius XI willingly repeated stroke on Dec. 2, when he was j Thrnuch the summer and fall Episcopate in Milan was his in Military commander, to invoke that anecdote, saying that he had found on the floor of his bedroom. 'o f 19-38, the Pope continued his auguration, as Papal Legate ex Erasures of clemency. On another made his the program o f that real For a time. Pius X I continued to j vigorous round o f activities, giv- pressly deputed by Pope Benedict iccasion, he was entrusted by the apostle o f our times. N or was it direct activities at the Vatican ■ ing special attention to the spread XV, of the Catholic University of V I 1 'V w h o ft voice WAS hcArit tfc c .r tp amo -me Cardinal Archbishop to smooth out a vain word; because he demon from his sickbed, consulting fr e o f pagan Nazi influence through Milan Dec. 7, 1921. In order to stmuiCAnCMSM 1 rntST CniNiiL M D t onsiderable difficulties confront- i< SimultAncousti strated with facts how he recog quently with Cardinal Pacelli, Pa out Ontral Europe and violations assure constant support fo r that ^ lAPMese sisnorsj religious teaching in the . tKnouoKout tke nized progress in science, by favor pal Secret.Try o f State, and other of the concordats with Germany, institution in the future, His COMStCOOtO- ichools. >u>oria. -H E F lIiS r ing and developing the Pontifical high officials o f the Church. .Austria, and Italy. He roundly Eminence suggested the creation On May 19, 1918. M sgr. Achille SFOAOCASr •Academy o f Science, and above all .^Iillions o f Catholics throughout condemned the persecution in of “ The Friends o f the University’’ la tti left the quiet o f the U4 T ^ S I. 'prosX I CREATEO by e‘-tablishing a model radio sta the world were joined in their Germany, fought against the ris yatican library to become Apos- and the promotion of a collection prayers fo r the Pope's recovery ing tide of “racism.” and took - 76 CARDINALS tion in the Vatican Tity, which he plic Visitor to Poland, and on a fixed Sunday every year in by other millions outside the several occasions to condemn anti- all the churches o f Italy fo r the —6 more than the whole Sacred^^ wished to entrust to none other ^cidentally to launch upon a than W illiam Ma.coni. There were Church who realized the real great Semitism. In the summer he con maintenance of the university. college when complete. la reer that, in less than four swift also installed in this station the ness of Pius X L As he remained demned the rise o f anti-Semitism fears, would see his elevation to The project met with magnificent in bed and as his condition grad in Italy and late in the year pro success. successive improvements supplied Ve Chair of Peter. The office of by the great inventor, little by lit ually grew worse, a veil of sorrow tested the new’ Italian marriage The motto on Cardinal Rattl's kpostolic Visitor was soon changed form ity with the results o f the who had become Pnpe asked II Duce send there an expedition o f help, tle. as he progressed in his admir and quiet settled over the Vatican laws, which conflicted with canon Jnto that of Apostolic Nuncio. On Episcopal coat-of-arms, “ Raptim synod held in Rome by that through Father Tacchi Venturi, although he well knew what were and over the whole Catholic world. law and with the Italo-Vatican Transit’’ (It pa.sses quickly), found able discoveries, Marconi was the Itay 30, 1919, Monsignor Ratti. in Episcopate in 1928; completely re S.J., a personal friend o f his, on the anti-religious sentiments o f the only living personage fo r whom Then, on the day before Christ concordat. *he name of Pope Benedict XV, reality in the development o f his organized the Episcopal ^undaries w'hnt conditions he would be dis Soviet government, which replied mas, persons sat before radios the On Sept. 21, 1938. he addressed career. Pope Benedict X V died Pope Pius X I had one o f the i 'ave de Jure recognition of the of Poland, Rumania, and Prussia posed to sell the Chigian library to his charity w'ith the famous trial streets in the Vatican ('ity named. world over to hear the Holy Father, nn Apostolic letter to the United unexpectedly Jan. 22, 1922. Fifty Spates Hierarchy on the opening Republic of Poland. On July 19 in conformity with the concordats to the Vatican library. Mussolini in which a prelate was condemned When, later, he inaugurated the in his annual message marking the |f the same year, he presented four Cardinals met in conclave concluded with the governments simpiv replied to the messenger: to death and shot on Good Friday, anniversary o f Christ's birth, re o f the Catholic University o f Feb. 2 to choose his successor, radio station, the Pope did so per hs credentials as Apostolic Nuncio of those countries; and instituted “ I will not sell the Chigian library and Archbishop Cleplak and about sonally, with a message broadcast late his joys and sorrows of 1936— America’s golden jubilee. This let and, Feb. 6. after the 14th serutinv, p President Pilsudski. Having 41 new dioceses and 120 vicariates to the Pope, but I will give it to a dozen companions were con along those mysterious ethereal his joys over the progress of the ter resulted, as a consequence o f they elected Cardinal Achille teen named Titular Archbishop of and apostolic prefectures. More him.” demned to many years o f im waves and with an impressiveness Church and the development o f his direct order, in the American Ratti, who took the name of Pius Lepanto, he received Episcopal such extensions were to follow'. Chigian Library prisonment. not enjoyed by the words o f ony Catholic .\ction, the World Cath Hierarchy's taking steps to put ^nsecratlon at the hands of Arch- XI. In the field of ecclesiastical W ith other governments o f the other pope. olic Press exposition, and the re through a program o f education in lishnp Kakowski, afterward Car- The newiv-elected Pope an studies and education, Pope Pius Passes to Vatican most varied nature and o f the most organized Pontifical Academy of I ’ nited States principles o f democ nounced that he would give nis first Patronage of Arts racy through all Catholic schools, iSSIOfl I iin al, in the W arsaw Cathedral, XI completely reformed—perfect And so the Chigian library diverse political tendency he Sciences— his sorrow over the dia ^ct. 28, 1919. blessing to the people not inside ing them and bringing tnem to passed to the Vatican, together tightened relations of friendship Seen in Buildings bolical activities o f those enemie*- from the grade schools up throueh vend I the temple, as his immediate pred His work as Apostolic Visitor such a degree of development that with the Bcrninian sketches and and concluded concordats. The Nor must the Holy Father’s of both religion and a right-ordered the universities. The texts are be )llari. I ecessors had done, but from the In d Papal Nuncio was exceptional. they are on a level with the high relics that enrich it, and this w’ss first o f these was in May, 1922. patronage o f the arts be forgotten. social structure, the atheistic Com ing prepared. outside loggia, a practice that had H e visited not only all parts o f the est institutes o f culture in the the first gracious contact between with Latvia; then came those with He had a large field in which to munists; the Civil war in Spain, A few days a fte r completing not been followed since 1870. It FoHsh territory, but also Lithuania w'orld— the Catholic Universities, the Pope and Mussolini through Bavaria (1924), Poland (1925), manifest it in the building activi and the threats to W’orld peace. He the series o f three beatifications, is interesting that Benito Mus Ind Latvia, and was prevented only with the Apostolic Constitution means o f the illustrious Jesuit w] Lithuania (1927), Rumania ties in the Vatican f'ity . Two rejoiced in his opportunity to suf he suffered on N ov. 25, 1938, a solini, then a simple deputy, was SSES ly strong dissuasion from visiting Deus Scientiarum Dominus. was afterward to take a prominent (1929), Prussia (1929). Baden W’orks will certainly not be fo r fer and offered up his illness fo r serious attack o f cardiac asthma in the great throng that stood in ln%net Russia, to w’hich his man- In Rome, he set up the large part in the relations betw'een the (1932). In 1926, he concluded gotten by posterity, and w ill also the conversion o f all who had gone that made the world believe fo r the Piazza di San Pietro that day fa te was extended. Pontifical Athenaeum, and co Vatican and the Fascist govern W’ith France an agreement for be remembered among the best of astray and particularly for stricken a time that he was on the point to hear the proclamation o f the On the evening of Aug. 13, 1920, ordinated in the Gregorian univer ment. liturgic honors in the East; in the artistic monuments which Spain. o f death. But within a few days Bolshevik troops came within new Pontiff. Hearing the an sity, which has a new, splendid With regard to the laity. Pope 1928, the Modus Vivendi ’ with On Dec. 28, constant vigil was he rallied and resumed hia worlc nouncement, he said, a fter a make the See of the Popes mar |6 kilometers o f tne Polish capi- seat in the heart o f Rome at the Pius X I i^ave a decided impetus Czechoslovakia, and in that same velous. The Palace o f the Pin- established in the Vatican and moment’s reflection: “ I believe Died as el, and the diplomatic corps had foot of the Quirinal, the Biblical to Catholic Action, defining it in year the agreements with Portugal acoteca, built by Senator Luca virtually all the business of the that, with Pope Ratti, something femoved to Posen, w’hither the Institute founded by Pope Pius his first encyclical as a collabora fo r the dioceses in India. The year Beltrami in the Vatican Gardens, is Church's headquarters at Rome Jubilees Neared nvernment had transported its good mav be done.’’ X and the Oriental institute tion of the laity in the apostolate 1933 saw the conclusion o f con superb, and the new entrance to was suspended. Cardinal Pacelli Through December and January The first encyclical of the new irehives, and where the greater founded by Pope Benedict X V . o f the Hierarchy o f the Church cordats with the German Reich and the Museums, worked out through issued the order bringing the work it was reported that the Pope was Holy Father, issued ten months planning further beatifications fa r t of its members had taken He established the Pontifical In and therefore detached from de with Austria. the clever and artistic construc ings of the Church government to after his election, announced as a standstill. and canonizations. Tfuge. Monsignor Ratti remained stitute of Christian Archaeology, pendencies o f a political nature, But the masterpiece o f this dip tion of a two-fold gallery exca the program of the Pontificate of collecting about it the activity Throughout January, 1937, the .^s February, 1939. opened the Warsaw in this entire des- hut under the strict and immediate lomatic activity w’as the effecting vated in the center o f the Vatican Pius Xl, “the Peace of Christ in of the Commission for Sacred world continued to wonder at the Holy Father made plans to cele ierate period, givin g an ex- dependency o f the Bishops and re o f the Lateran Treaties, signed Hill, is a remarkable achievement. the Reign o f Christ.’’ Archaeology' and the Roman Acad Holy Father’s hold on life and he brate the tenth anniversary o f the Imple of courage that was shared stricted to the field of activity of Feb. M, 1929, through which, after The building renovation o f the p; by the ministers of the United Rightly Called emy of Archaeology. He removed spiritual interests. He w'ished. His Vatican City has a worthy com continued gradually to gain signing of the Lateran treaty 59 years of rupture between Italy strength until, on Sunday. Feb. with Italy, Saturday. Feb. 11, Etates, Italy, and Denmark. to the Vatican the seat o f the Holiness said, that Catholic A c and the Holy See, the Roman Ques panion in the restorations and 'Pope of Missions’ Accademia dei Nuovi Lincei, giv tion be spread to every country, modifications o f the Papal villa at 7, he was able to speak again to and the 17th jubilee o f his Presence at Post Even a rapid summary o f the tion was peacefully settled and to the faithful o f the world by radio. coronation, Sunday, Feb. 12. ing it the title of Pontifical Acad and he brought it about that it was the Holy See was assured, with Castelgandolfo, and t h e Villa marvelous activity of Pope Pius emy o f Science and making o f it This was on the occasion o f the Early in the week preceding the \nspired Confidence recognized and sanctioned by the solemn and juridical sanction, the Barborini, which was united to it XI’s Pontificate would have to one of the moat highlv-accredited closing o f the 33rd International scheduled jubilee celebrations, the On Aug. 14, when it became civil authorities in concordats con liberty, independence, and sover through the Lateran treaty. Inown that the representative of treat of brilliant encyclical letters, centers o f scientific culture in the cluded with the various nations. Eucharistic Congress in Manila, pope canceled his audiences and profound Interest in missionary eignty that belong to the Vatican Intense Activiiy where thousands gathered in the took to bed, weakened by what Ih e Pope had not abandoned the world. He founded the Russian No other Pontificate, it is said, in virtue o f her Divine constitu lapital, a general sense of relief w'ork, his work of organization in college, the Ruthenian college, the was so rich as that o f Pope Pius Marks Last Years Luneta park to hear the Pope’s appeared to be only a slight cold. tion and mandate. Contemporarily, He was reported to be improving ftervaded not only the ecclesiasti- ecclesiastical and lay fields, nu Rumanian college, the Dutch col X I in beatifications and canoniza The last years of Pope Pius’ broadcast. merous beatifications and canoni there was signed also the con when on Feb. 9 he suffered two ia l authorities, who had remained lege, and the Czechoslovakian col tions. A five-year period— in 1925 life were marked with the same in While much of the world still zations, extraordinarily important cordat through which the Catholic thought him a man nearly dead, heart attacks. A t first he seemed loyally at their posts, but also the lege. He reorganized and perfected, to 1930— saw scores o f beatifica religion in Italy was given the tense activity, the same concern feople, the army, and its com diplomatic agreements, and numer according to the new University tions, with still others continuing certainly unable to give any leri- to recover from the attacks, but recognition and place belonging to fo r the welfare o f the Church and early on the m orning o f Friday, panders. General H aller, head ous other events of diverse char constitution, the Athenaeum o f the in the later years o f Pope Pius of society throughout the world ous consideration to pressing prob OOL her through the tradition o f 19 cen Feb. 10, he died in a coma as I f the corps of volunteers, went acter but all of worldwide im Pontifical Major Roman seminary, X I’s reign. that featured all his years in the lems o f civilization, the Pope is edunSJ turies o f Christian and Italian physicians and high Vatican o ffi icrsonally to the nunciature to portance that occurred in the years and gave new and splendid seats Among the saints canonized In Vatican. When he celebrated his sued three important encyclical nk rf 4 history. cials stood about his bedside. Ir a y fo r them. The French Gen- that Pius X I occupied the Chair of to the College o f the Propaganda Pope Pius X I’s Pontificate are St. 78th birthday May 31, 1935, he letters as Len t o f 1937 drew to an nooL Peter. on the Janiculum, to the Czecho This event was not restricted to Ir a l Weygand, in reply to a ques- Therese o f the In fan t Jesus, the the relations between Italy and the alone o f all those in the Papal : “^r>n from the Papal Nuncio as Pope Plus X I was rightly called slovakian college, to the Ethiopian Little Flower of Lisieux; St. Peter »d doCl Papacy, but w’as of general import household was unconcerned about what the plans were, said that the “ Pope o f the Missions.’’ In college in Vatican City, and to Canisius, Jesuit, who at the same Pius XI are shown would k ance and interest because o f its sig his slowly failing health. Constant i e had taken all pos.sible steps to addition to his encyclical on the his beloved Lombardian seminary time was declared a Doctor o f the appeals fo r pence and calls to un Parents and Birthplace -I, the pirlure!! below. our fA I missions, his Pontificate was con on the Esquiline. nificance fo r the mission o f the Upper left, lii* father, Francesco Ralti, a silk maniifartiirer: upper ^ prepared for the difficulties of Church; St. M argaret Postel, Church in the world. The proof ceasing prayer marked his public ^ e situation, but that, neverthe- stantly marked by acts that clear Multiplied Seminaries foundress of the Sisters of Mercy; pronouncements. Time after time, riBht, the in De«io, Ilaly, where .\rhille Rnlli wa* bom May .31, ly mons' ated his interest in lies in the outburst o f applause 18.37, near ihe A1pf» he lo»ed lo rlitnh: lower left, the Baptismal font iTIOn I Jess, the result depended on the Throughout Italy St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, with which the Lateran pacts were he told pilgrims to Rome that pray icrod Vq frayers of the good, and especially this phase o f the Church’s work. foundress of the IVIadams o f the Sa er must be the universal weapon in in the pari*h rhiirrli, where he wa« baptized .\mbrose Damian Achille; Speaking at the Pontifical Mass In Italy, he multiplied the greeted in all parts o f the world, ited H* ho.se o f the representative of the cred Heart; St. John Baptist Mary the fight against war and irreli- lower right, his niolher, Tere*a ((>alli) Ratti. celebrated in St. Peter’s on Pente regional seminaries, amplifying and in the ad(iresses o f the Pope lacU i' ^oly Father. Vianney, parish priest o f Ars; St. himself to illustrate their signifi gion. The spread of atheistic Com oilan_» That same day came the first cost o f 1922, to commemorate the those previously founded by Pius John Kudes, founder o f the Con munism and the growing threat.^ X and Benedict X V, and erected cance and importance. >ar lows of a change In the progress third centenary of the founding gregation o f Jesus and M ary; St. to world peace were the things that tinn t#fl* I f the war. The fir s t sign ap of the Congregation for the Propa new ones in Assi.si, Molfetta, Catherine Thomas, Augustinian Nunciatures, Delegations grieved him most in these last peared when a battalion o f stu- gation o f the Faith, when he re Potenza, and Cugiieri in Sardinia. sister; St. Lucy Filippini, years. formed and removed to Rome the Lastly, hearing how profound were Erected lents, nearly all boys, guided by foundress of the Religious Teach As a corollary to the activity In 1935. His Holiness spoke by thaplain Skorupka, went with Society fo r the Propagation o f the the necessities o f the clergy in ers; St. Jean de Brebcuf and com radio to a vast throng gathered for :wr Faith, His Holiness made pro South Italy, he conceived and developed by Pius X I in the inter Icroic bravery to stop a break in panions, American m artyrs; St. national field must be registered the great triduum at the Shrine of i b « r J ‘ Ihe ranks of the defenders. These nouncements o f utmost importance brought into effect the vast plan Robert Bcllarmine, S.J., (Cardinal; Our Lady of Lourdes in France : for»? in this field. The S. P. F. head of constructing 4,000 parochial other events: 1922— Erection of f Ir a v e boys fell In hundreds, and the St. Theophilus o f Corte, Friar A pril 28, to the crowd o f Am eri id vou» Apostolic Delegations in China and lir s t among them all to fall was office had been in France. churches in Italy, constituting fo r Minor; St. Albert the Great, who cans attending the Seventh Na Tw’o years later, on the eve this purpose an office in the South A frica; 1925— Erection of % c ir chaplain. This example so at the same time was proclaimed a Apostolic Delegations in the An tional Eucharistic Congress at of the Holy Year, he announced Vatican. ^ irred the older soldiers that they Doctor of the Church; St. Andrew tilles and in Indo-China; 1927— Cleveland Sept. 2fi, and to the mul the project of the Missionary ex In Pope Pius X I’s solicitude for lu ickly overcame the panic that Hubert Fournet, founder o f the Erection o f the Apostolic Nun titude at the First National Eu position in the Vatican, and. the culture, it was natural that the pad seized them and returned to Daughters o f the Cross; St. ciature in Lithuania; 1929— Erec-* charistic Congress in Lima, Peru, following year, the institution o| Vatican library should hold firs t heir posts. The day ended with Bernadette Soubirous, to whom the tion of Apostolic Delegation in Oct. 27. Later Eucharistic con the Lateran Missionary museum place. Under his Pontificate, it _he greatest hopes, and, on the Blessed Virgin appeared at Palestine and of the Apostolic gresses also heard him. perpetuated the lessons and edi saw improvements of primary im ■ o llo ^ n g day, the Feast o f the Lourdes; St. Joan Antm e Thouret, Nunciature in Ita ly; 1930— Erec Tw enty new Cardinals w ere pro fication resulting from the exposi portance, such as the new plan iLssumption, while 100,000 o f the foundress of the Sisters of Charity; tion of the Apostolic Nunciature claimed on Dec. 16, 1935, and two tion. Then followed the im of access, new equipment capable iaith fu l moved through the streets St. Louise de M arillac, foundress in Ireland and o f the Apostolic more were named in 1936. portant letter o f June, 1926, to of holding 800,000 volumes, the in a prayerful procession, the of the Daughters of Charity; St. Delegations in the Belgian Congo Tw o great encyclicals were is the Apostolic Vicars in China, and new catalogs compiled according great Polish offensive broke forth M ary Miachela o f the Blessed Sac and in British Africa. sued by the Pope in 1935 and 1936. the message of August, 1928, to to the best o f modern technique, |nd threw the Bolshevik army into rament, Spanish foundress o f the Crowning this multiform inter On Doe. 20, 1935, he issued a pro the Chinese people. The conse and the purchase of new stocks out. Sisters o f Perpetual Adoration; St. national activity were the numer nouncement on the office o f the cration o f six Chinese Bishops in of books. Theresa Margaret Redi, a Car A t the consistory o f June IS, Among the latter, in first place ous visits of royal personages and priesthood, saying that the priest |921, Pope Benedict X V created October. 1926, and that o f the first melite nun; St. Pompilius Maria heads o f states to Pius X I. In hood had been of great, interest I n c . native Japanese Bishon in October. in the order o f time and o f im Pirrotti of the Religious Teachers, Msgr. Achille Ratti a Cardinal portance is the Chigian library. 1922, he received the King. Queen, and deep concern to him through 3 o x |nd preconized him Archbishop of 1927, performed by the \?ands of St. Joseph Cottolengo, St. John and Crown Prince of Belgium and out hia life, especially his life as His Holiness himself, in the Vati Moasignor Ratti, when he was pre dilan. Following his elevation to Bosco, founder of the Salesians; the President of the Argentine re Pope. In July, 1936, the Pope can Basilica, were the seal .and fect of the Vatican library, had St. Conrad o f Parzham, a Capu he Sacred College, Cardinal Ratti already been much preoccupied public; in 1923, the King and wrote an encyclical urging the ex 5*!2l pent a month at the Benedictine eloquent demonstration of the real, chin; St. Thomas More, and St. Queen of England, the King and tension o f the United States’ Le « . K < | new autonomous life, rooted in the over the fate of that library, to John Fisher. obey o f Mt. Cassino, and then which is linked the name o f A lex Queen o f Spain; in 1924, the gion of Decency plan to improve ih. leaded the annual National Italian peoples evangelized, which Pope Prince Regent o f Ethiopia; in 1925, motion picture conditions through Pius desired to impress on the mis ander VII, which was in danger Soviets Repulse . JoJ»A'| lilgrimage to Lourdes. of being exported or dispersed in the President of the government out the world. It met with univer I On Sept. 8, 1921, Cardinal Ratti sions. _ . . consequence o f the sale o f the Charity Appeal o f the Irish Free Stale; in 1929, sal approval. Iplemnly entered the Metropolitan Pope Pius XI'4 Pontificate also the President of Liberia, the Presi The Pope continued his interest w’BS marked by his labors for the Chigi palace to the Italian govern With this activity for the inter le e o f Milan. U was on that occa- ment, which had installed the nal life of the Church there corre dent o f the Republic o f Panama, in the progress of science up to his (Ml ■on that a passage in his discourse intensification and extension of the Prince o f Monaco, the King last illness. In 1935, he personally •nd the Hierarchical, disciplinary, and ministry of the colonies in it. spond no less fru itfu lly the labors fc the Duomo, badly interpreted, and Queen o f Italy, the Crowm inaugurated the new Vatican as •nd. scientific government of the Therefore, he proposed its pur of Pius XI in relations with rulers lave rise to malevolent interpre- Prince o f Italy with his sisters, the tronomical observatory at Castel U Cro»*| Church. In the first ten years of chase to Benedict X V , but that and governments. He showed no ^ i o n and commenta in the press. Pope could not devote the neces prejudicial exclusiveness or timid Princes of the House Savoy-Aosta. gandolfo. In 1936 improve, ents, The Cardinal had spoken of the his Pontificate, he instituted nine w’crc made in the powerful Vatican new ecclesiastical provinces in sary money to the purpose, and ity in entering into contact with the Princes of the House of ^*eat prestige over all the world Savoy-Genoa; in 1930, the King radio station the Pope had installed Brazil, two in Venezuela, one in ha(f regretfully to refuse to con any power when it was licit to •nd ‘ ^ bat Italy derived from the Pope. sider the proposal. When, at the hope fo r beneficial results. A t the o f Sweden, the Grandduchess Char to enohle him to speak to his world if Chile, one in the Antilles, one in I was, in other terms, the same end o f 1922, Mussolini ^ ad e the beginning of his Pontificate, he lotte of Luxemburg, the King of wide flock. To crown his work for bought which, the year before, Lithuania, and one in Paraguay; science, the Holy Father, on Oct. reconstituted the Synan-Malabaric Chigi palace the residence of the did not hesitate to make an appeal Belgium, the Crown Prince of Italy len ito Mussolini, head o f the with his bride, the Princess Marie 30, 1936, reorganized the Pontifical Hierarchy in India and that of minister of foreign affairs and his to the charity of the world for the fascist group that had not yet pertonneL tha fonntr UbrarUn lUz^Dg peopla in Buaaia and to Joia of Belgium; in 1981, King Academy of Sciences in 3Iotu vm e into powert had expressed in the Catholle Armenlaaa la con- fi- SundajTi Feb. 19
P A G E F O U R A Lon g and Fruitful Reign Entry Into P u b lic L i f e beautiful pieture^ na. taken at St. Peter",- in ------1922, ju il.. .after f e e Pin. X I had hoonheen invo.todinve.ted ».th the Ponlifieal m O LIC PBESS . .... ^ on >«He . i . Umed__ a-J _on7h _ ala^ e elmia dal. ■aABg. near «Mtnt#>P. renter, ^ e 17.h anniver- H robes and crowned with the tiara o f the Papacy. «ary o f his coronation was to be marked .Sundae. Feb. 12. Aeeording to the Catholic o f S4 year. wa. the longeat, hay. TOehirf or eaeeeded the 17Ut By Pius XI Dramatic T a l e l Popes, including St. Peter, whose reign CContinued From Pace One) I In the 18 th eentury or after. Piu. X I . rule , ing not only in iu length, but aUo in it. fruit.. Tliough the Chureh .ulfered great peiaeeti i and laity WHS POSTEREI (B y M scr. E nrico Purei, Copy- who knew Monnipior R.itj , „ i Reg Touth h.d offered hi. fir.1 M.m . ' e»p.ndinf, Ih. eler,y time, he succeeded in eatending its influence in many spheres. 'right NOWC Nsw» Ser vice) mately and apprecia '<< | 0 „ . bwom e. .<■eu.ton.ed in.Route . r , obed.en. .nd v.rtuou., and addition to his eminent < to treading '.h e r V 'th.' eanoniaed there i. the neee...n. material V a t ic n City.— How M>gr. Achil- auuiuun lo ms eminent ouiliG. • I *®. . ---in * »»here thev progreni in the erection and con- Itf R «tti was taken suddenly from a prieat and atudent, he boR L in lu ffered '^r died, or even to look- tinu.nee o f di^i-"“ *. By HOLE EIITBEB the tranquil life of a P"-spic«V ,"Portrait i in i at their remain.. But to i... -o rk . o f edurat.on. .Vo other an unexpected call to the Pa^l a splendid ability tu meet and t with em inent persons, and a m L o f the ioming from a n e» eountrv uhrre Pope put through .o ntan.v eon- diplomatic service, and waa there- I. 2S f • — - -- rordalA »*ilh nationi. Washington. — A characteristic . b>- launched upon a career which inold*. such experiences are as rare o f Pope Pius X I, frequently termed perplexing queationi. Thi, seeina ahosts. it meant ntore than .Nexer before in .* the ■ i* history o f -! led to hia election as Supreme Head ■.hri Gr; c.n de.erihe. One o f the the uorld -a . (athol.e miv.ion the “ Pope o f the Catholic Press,” ' o t the Catholic Church, la a dra- *fa«r. Caccia-Dominioni, .u.,,,.., Poii.h J< ... .work - a m L carried r^a^wme*.,forwarxl .at,on All»o large was his deep interest in Catholic i Camera, later Cardinal. An , , S I . an un greatest o f these thrills publication.s. A t the opening of the . 1907, h . had .poken to hijh li)i dMcll in halls hallowed hr « man. a scale. Tlie la*! ten sears haxe ; In the spring of 1918, the Polish 'I Ormat World Catholic Press exposition at aonagea at the Vatican to then still lixing, whom wc would seen an increase o f #i.812,ft99 souls Bishops asked Pope Benedict XV I ,o, sud not be surprised to see moxin* to in tmr foreign missions. .No x»e Vatican City in 1936— a gathering to send one of his representatives that Monaignor Ratti, then p r,(„l ;i' decree* wards ranonirntion before our own called Pius the Po|ie »»f the he brought about and carefully pre to advise and guide them m the of the Ambroaian library m S I ,p* worth Missions. Nexer were (alholic pared— the late Pontiff issued a render excellent service in PipJI life ends. formidable work of giving a new Hrr*her* schools more numerous or en clarion warning against Godless order in the field o f religion to the diplomacy. Later on, Msgr. racciJI Communism and adjured the Cath Domini .ii repeated thc.xe tie to H Rerau.se o f the enormous pres- ergetic. Nexer was the f athoUc revived and united Polish nation. n - *'»nn| lhe«ir> o f eilui'olion better set forth olic press to carry his warning to thoughts to 10. He V sure on his time, prtxale audiemes ; Monsignor Ratti did not belong to ponaven »nci« read cannot he given, as a rule. b» the than in his Kncscliral on Kiluca- all the world. “ You are my voice," ; the Vatican's diplomatic corps, and, Cerretti, later Cardinal. whoVttSi tion. 'So we called him the Pope he once said. “ I do not sa.v that you time was skereUry of the SaerSI saxed ei Pope to men H.ho are not in r.pis- therefore, was not thought o f as o f Fdiication. Nexer wa* the t ath- make my voice hoard, but that you •hop of ropal rank or who .ire not in «ml- being among those the H oly See Congregation for ExtraordnaJ* Iploved I olir program of economic reform arc really my voice itself: for few mig'.it call upon in nnswenng the Ecclesia.stical Affairs. standing pnlitic.Tl positions. N' r iieIiI *uf' cherish the fact that we had one enunciated in such clear principles indeed would be the number of chil Polish Bichops’ request. Thus it came to pass that Morul a* in the tJuailniKr*imii .Anno. So dren o f our common Father who signor C erretti, the first personal lilx. but uilh Piu. \l. " r iuul g.inr tu But there was at the Vatican one fairly ' Rome et|uipi»e»l with powerful let we called him the l*t»|>c o f l.abor. could learn my wishes and thoughts whom Pope Benedict showed Nexer wa* the Ixpirall* ( alholic without the aid o f the Catholic letter containing the Polish R:',] * It it ters and u was through the gcH,d 1 30 m grares o f the now ( .irdinaU I’ lr- xirtiic o f puril* better promoted press." ops’ request, said to the Pf.pe- than in his fincxclical on i haste Over 1,000 Take nnre. /ardo and t .ima-Uomiiiioni
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