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CARDINAL DI BELMONTE Who may be elevated to the Papacy, as a result of the death of Pope Benedict XV., according to reports from Rome.POPE BENEDICT XV.1854—November 21. Born at Genoa of patrician ancestry.1875—At the age of 21, received the degree of doctor-in-law.1878—Ordained to the priesthood.1878-1883—Attended the Academy of Ecclesiastics.1S83—Appointed secretary to Mgr. Rampolla, afterward Cardinal Rampolla, when the prelate was papal nuncio to Madrid, Spain.1887—Returned to Rome and entered the Secretaryship of State. 1901—Made Secretary of the Cipher, under Cardinal Merry De Val.1907—Appointed Archbishop of Bologna by Pope Pius X. and consecrated by the Pontiff.1914—Created and proclaimed Cardinal on May 25.Elected Pope on September 3.Mounted the throne of St. Peter on September 6.Issued encyclical to the episcopacy of world calling for end of World war. *1915—Called upon the clergy and laity of the Catholic Church of world to pray for universal amity and good will.1916—Wrote to the Austrian Emperor asking him to “shorten the war” and urged the German Emperor to state his terms for peace.Suggested to President Wilson that America might volunteer to conciliate the European belligerents.1917—Issued his ftunous appeal to the nations, exhorting the belligerent rulers to end the war “for the sake ofhumanity.”1918—Protested to Austrian and German emperors against the shelling of Paris as “a wanton massacre.”i 1919—Declined to participate in a world conference of religions.' 1920—Issued decree calling upon Catholic Bishops to guard against certain societies corrupting the faith of Catholic I youths.Urged Catholic Bishops to work against the “dangerous doctrine of Socialists ” 'Denounced immodesty in women’s dress.Declared that the church would never abolish the law imposing celibacy on the clergy.Resumed diplomatic relations between the Vatican and France and Germany.Increased the influence of the Vatican on the public opinion j of the world.1921—Approved the aims of the Washington Armament Conference.^Appealed to the prelates of the church to promote amity among the nations.Issued numerous appeals for the poor children of Central Europe.Aided in the collection of huge sums for the children of Germany, Austiia, Poland, Hungary and Czecho-3iovaKia. Made large contributions to funds for the relief of the Russians and the Chinese and to the International Red Cross. Declared the world is afflicted with hve great piagues, which he enumerated as the negation of authority, hatred among brothers, thirst for pleasure, disgust for work, and forgetfulness of the supernatural objects of life. These i evils, he asserted, can be overcome only by the aid of the gospel. |
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Boston Sunday Post
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Sun, Jan 22, 1922
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