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Died. Rev. Ludovic Billot, S. J., 85; in Ariccia, Italy. He became a Cardinal in 1911. crowned Pope Pius XI in 1922, resigned as Cardinal...
Turning against Rome a face that looks like a vise with two deep sockets for eyes, Louis Cardinal Billot, 81-year-old Frenchman, a foremost theologian, renounced his red hat and repaired last week to France to enter a monastery as plain Father Billot. The alleged cause of his resig nation was the Pope's placing Leon Daudet's newspaper L'Action Francaise on the Index Expurgatorius (thus banning it at once from all Roman Catholic homes). His Holiness' policy was based on the conviction that the wily, obstreperous editors of L'Action were using...
...Royalist party. The excommunicated had stigmatized in their Paris newspaper, L'Action Francaise, all Republican Catholics-asserting that true Catholics are Royalists. The Pope not only excommunicated M. Daudet and M. Maurras, last week, but despatched an official rebuke to the French Cardinals Lucon (Rheims), Charost (Rennes), and Billot for upholding L'Action Francaise in various letters written by them...
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