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...authority) : ". . . A solution of the differences between the Roman Church and the Italian State will be impossible for another half century." Thus was significantly trumpeted the disastrous breakdown of recent Italo- Vatican negotiations which had seemed at one time to be drawing very near an amicable agreement. Pope Pius XI and Il Duce were reported to have been in substantial concurrence on the proposition that the claims of the Holy See to temporal authority could be harmlessly satisfied by the recognition of a "Papal State" whose territories would include the Vatican properties and one or two remote hill towns...
Meanwhile the Beatissimus Pater, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pius XI, continues his pretensions to be the sovereign of a State by permitting the daily unfurling of the yellow and white flag of the Roman Church Temporal - a banner displayed even in the U. S., where few Protestants trouble to distinguish it from the crossed keys on a white field which is the standard of the Roman Church Spiritual. That "Rome" has indeed many of the attributes to a State was shown again, last week, when the Holy See concluded a diplomatic pact with that flourishing State Temporal, Czechoslovakia. (See below...
...taught and preached, I now joyfully die!" Such a spirit, rekindled in Czechoslovakia, stands to them for all that has cloven their new, secular republic away from the Holy and Apostolic and Most Catholic oppressions of the fallen House of Habsburg. No wonder then, that two years ago Pope Pius XI wrathfully recalled Papal Nuncio Mgr. Francesco Marmaggi from Prague, lest he be obliged to participate in honoring a dead man whose spirit lives as an active enemy of the Holy See. From that overt act of recall sprang the negotiations so happily concluded last week...
...saying half as much in the medieval days of Innocent III, a Roman Catholic priest might have been unfrocked, nibbled by rats, burned at the stake. But today, under Pius XI, who is an eel & an ogre only to such as Senator Heflin, these statements were applauded by great & good Catholics. They were made last week by the Rev. Francis P. Duffy before the National Republican Club in Manhattan. Father Duffy, no obscure clergyman, was Roman Catholic chaplain of the famed 69th Regiment of New York ("the fighting Irish") during the World War, was advisor to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith...
Recently Pope Pius refused Lord Halifax a private audience. His present encyclical, while it does not end the indubitable Anglican tendency toward Church Unity, leaves no hope that it can be reached through the means hitherto most emphasized...