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Most Rev. Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti, Apostolic Nuncio to Yugoslavia who earned his red hat by a pyrrhic victory. He negotiated a concordat with Yugoslavia so favorable to his Church that it led to religious rioting and the Yugoslavian Parliament dared not ratify it (TIME...
...list had been temporarily excommunicated from the Serbian Orthodox Church for supporting a Concordat with the Vatican; all were due to appear for trial before an ecclesiastical court (TIME, Aug. 9 et ante...
Real purpose of the service was to protest against the Government's intention to ratify a Concordat with the Vatican, placing the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia on equality with the entrenched Orthodox Church. The congregation of 5,000, largely women and girls, closed in behind the procession, sang hymns and prayed, as it moved through the streets to the Church of St. Sava. Reaching the centre of Belgrade, they faced double ranks of gendarmes, who charged on the congregation. Women fled in terror. The police cracked down with rifle butt and truncheon on the chanting priests. Hoary old Bishop...
Prince Paul, the Regent of Yugoslavia, virtually hid himself in Slovenia last week until Premier Milan Stoyadinovich, an Orthodox, and Minister of Interior Father Anton Koroshetz, a Roman Catholic priest, should have succeeded or failed to jam the Concordat through the Skupshtina (Lower House). Sick deputies were brought in-even on stretchers-to vote and the Cabinet finally...
...hours later Serbia's beloved Patriarch expired. In no mood to wait until next autumn, when the Concordat goes for ratification to the Senate. Orthodox zealots attacked two Skupshtina members who had voted for ratification. Police rescued them but their clothes were in shreds...