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...Many people hate us because we are Italians and because we are Fascisti. We must be ready to defend ourselves in both capacities." Little Brother Arnaldo wrote editorially in Il Popolo d' Italia (unquestionably with Il Duce's 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...
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...
James Gilliland Simpson, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, visiting the U. S., attended the dinner of the Church Club, in Manhattan. After the banquet was over, he rose to his feet, looked fixedly toward the ceiling and delivered a short oration on U. S. customs and eccentricities. Said he: "... I have not yet summoned up courage enough to enthrone myself like Buddha in one of your shoeshine parlors...
When Jefferson Davis was President of the Southern Confederacy, he and Robert E. Lee were accustomed to attend services in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va. The most fashionable church in the South, its pews were filled every Sunday with arch, starched ladies, who often took only a perfunctory interest in the services, and elaborately gallant grandees who, with some show of munificence, dropped their confederate greenbacks into the collection plate. St. Paul's is still a fashionable church. Its rector, the Rev. Dr. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., last week pleased most of his parishioners, surprised...
...rubrics of his church provide that no person be given Holy Communion until confirmed or desirous of being confirmed. Said Dr. Tucker: "... I am only doing openly and permitting persons of other denominations to do .habitually what has been done sub rosa and occasionally for many years...