The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-04

Muncio to Madrid, he took Monsignor Della Chiesa with him as secretary of nunciature. On Cardinal Rampolla's re- turn to Rome to become secretary of state for the vatican, Monsignor Della Chiesa entered the secretariat of state as one of the minutatumti" or minor officials until 1901. when he was ap- pointed substitute of the secretariat and also secretary of the cypher
 As secretary to the secretariat of state. Cardinal Della Chiesa was brought into notable prominence throughout the Catholic hierarchy, but his position was not given at that time of cardinalistic rank
 Notice of Promotion
 On the accession of Pope Plus x, Mon- signor Della Chiesa continued to break into the fsecretariat until December 1e, 1907, when Plus X gave him a noted promotion to the position of arch bishop see of the important See of Bologna. For four years he operated the important See of Bologna until in May last, Plus X named him among 13 members of the hierarchy to receive the red hat.
 Archbishop Begin of Quebec was among the other cardinals named 1T that time, the others being sterling prelates of Spain, France, Austria, Germany and Italy. The full title of the new pope in addition to Benedicte XIV, will be Pope Bishop of Rome and successor of St. Peter supreme pontiff of the Universal church. patriarch of the west, primate of Italy archbishop and metropolitan of the Roman prov fnce, sovereign of the Temporal domin- ion of the Holy Roman Catholic church.
 He was appointed subsecretary of state in 1910, and in 1907 he was elected to the post of advisor to the holy office. In 1907 he was also ap- pointed papal muncio of Madrid in succession to Monsignor Rinaldini, but this appointment was annulled three days later. This incident had occurred just before he was made archbishop of Bologna.
 When Monsignor Della Chiesa was given this post it was declared in Rome that it was mainly with the object of combating modern religious ideas, Bo- 1ogna being the headquarters of the national democratic league, whose members advocated what is known "as modernism" in religion.
 Condemns Tango
 In January, 1914, while still at Bo- logna, the present Pope issued a pas toral letter strongly condemning the tango. It has been 174 years since the time of the last Pope Benedicte.
 On his election to the papacy in 1740 Cardinal Prospero Lambertini assumed that title. It is an interesting fact that the new pope was archbishop of Bologna while Pope Benedicte XIV was born in Bologna.
 According to a dispatch from Rome dated at 250 yesterday afternoon and received in New York early today the White Star line steamer Canopic, bear ing Cardinals Gibbons and O'Connen to Rome was not due at Naples until to- 
 Therefore, it is probable that neither of these two American cardinals par ticipated in the election of the new pope.
 The pope has decided to hold his first consistory Tuesday, when he will confer the red hat on Cardinal Anth- ony Mendez Bello, patriarch of Lisbon. and Cardinal Guisasola y Menedez, archbishop of Toledo, Spain. Both were created cardinals by Pope Plus X at the consistory last May.
 The pope will deliver Tuesday his first allocution, which will give to the world the programme of his pontificate.
 One of the brothers of the pontiff is an admiral in the Italian royal navy and another is captain in the Italian army
 The first appointment made by the pope was that of Monsgnor Parolin. nephew of Pope Plus X, to be canon Of St. Peters