In less than six years his progress began to gain recognition in Rome. In 1903, the first of a series of important honours was bestowed upon him. First came his appointment as censor of the Liturgical Academy, significant in view of the fact he was the first American to recei honour, Next he became a fof the illustrious Academy of the Arcadia, a Roman body few Americans before or since have been invited to Join. He received in 1908 the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from the University of Propaganda in Rome.
Bishop McConnell soon began to feel the burden of his episcopal duties more and note. In 1900 he appealed to the Vatican for an assistant. the preceding months, he had come to depend heavily upon his vigorous, eMeient chancellor and it was Mae. Mundelein ho became his aide titular Bishop of Loryma and Auxi-Lary Bishop of Brooklyn,
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