Just about a month into the war, Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa was elected Pope and took the name Benedict XV. He strongly believed in papal authority. Back in 1910, his Lenten Pastoral had been ...

Paris, 18 April 1921 - Archbishop Daniel Mannix has arrived in Paris after meeting with Pope Benedict XV. At a dinner on 14 April hosted by a number of Irishmen in the city, Mannix revealed that ...