Word: church
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Information which has been given out regarding concrete points alleged to have been discussed in conference is entirely untrue. . . . Nothing should be accepted as authentic unless it is a statement issued by either the Government of Mexico or myself on behalf of the church...
Undeterred, the Mexican press insisted that practical agreement had already been reached between Church and State, mentioned June 29, St. Peter's Day, as the day agreed upon for formal resumption of church services, the singing of Jubilate Deos and Te Deums...
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...
...Italian State the Church is not sovereign or even free. It is not sovereign because that would be a contradiction. It is not even free because its institutions and its men are subject to the general laws of the country. . . . The State is sovereign in the Italian kingdom, the Catholic Church holds certain loyally and voluntarily recognized privileges, and all other religions are freely admitted...
...always the Supreme Pontiff who intervenes and negotiates in the fullness of the sovereignty of the Catholic Church, which he does not represent but personifies by direct Divine mandate. It is not, therefore, the Catholic organization in Italy which would be subject to the sovereignty of the State but the Pontiff himself, the supreme authority of the Church. ... If there were the least animosity and bitterness in our soul we would say that these not infrequent expressions of no renunciation, of no concession from the State to the Church offend...