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Restlessly Apostolic Delegate Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores awaited at the President's Palace, Chapultepec, last week. Pope Pius XI's final word on the settlement of Mexico's three-year-old Church v. State feud...
...Potosi that evening, which meant an irritating postponement of negotiations unless the message arrived at once. Meanwhile Secretary Sergio Montt, of the Chilean Embassy, was furiously decoding a cable received in his office from the Vatican. Hurrying to the palace he presented it to the Archbishop. It was Pope Pius XI's sanction of the plan of settlement, in clear, definite terms. A few hours later two statements were issued, one by President Fortes Gil, one by Archbishop Ruiz y Flores, confirming the report that churches would reopen and Roman Catholic Mexico again be baptized, married and buried with...
Pleasing though the diplomatic condition of Vatican City might be to Pius XI he was troubled last week by statements of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini about the Roman Catholic Church. Mussolini, speaking to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, had snapped...
Severe was the point-by-point rebuke which Pope Pius administered to Mussolini's assertions. Said he, in the quasi-official Vatican newspaper I'Osservatore Romano...
...that Pope Pius said "we least of all expected heretical and worse than heretical expressions as to the very essence of Christianity and Catholicism. Distinguishing between historical and doctrinal affirmations would be in the manner of the worst and most condemnable modernism...