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...perhaps the most revealing was a brush with the Pope in 1910. On a visit to Europe after his audience with the Pope, then Plus X. At the time the Pope was troubled with the presences in Rome of some American Methodists who were trying to convert Rome from Catholicsim to Methodists. The Pope asked Roosevelt not to recognize the Methodists; the Methodists asked him not to see the Pope. Roosevelt compromised by ignoring both, thus "asserting his independence from either Church," as he related to President William Howard Taft on his return...
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