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Bitterly Osservatore Romano pointed out that this was not the first time that the Car of Thespis had offended. They had opened their second summer season in Rome itself with this same play, despite the fact that the Vatican Concordat expressly provided that the Fascist state would allow nothing to occur in Rome to injure its position as the home of Catholicism. Present at this heretical performance, and publicly applauding was none less than Il Duce himself...
...British Blue Book further shows that in March of this year the Holy See informed His Majesty's Government that they "could not consent to a concordat on Malta so long as Lord Strickland [a Roman Catholic] remained in power." Vexed to the bottom of his stubborn Glasgow soul, Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson made his final reply to Pope Pius XI by withdrawing the British Minister to the Holy See, Henry Getty Chilton...
...business of diplomacy, is his eminence Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, 77, for 15 years papal Secretary of State. Last week, as often before, he submitted his resignation to his master and onetime protégé, Pope Pius XI. Thought he: I have finished my last and greatest work, the concordat between the Papacy and the Italian State; I will spend my remaining years in the villa the Pope has given me overlooking the Coliseum; there I will codify the canon law of the Oriental churches. This time Pius XI accepted the resignation...
Thus was the conciliatory spirit of the recent Concordat between Italy and the Holy See expressed with churchly pomp. The Pope
...Pius XI created only one new Cardinal, postponed other elevations until December, made only brief remarks. "Certain events have taken place with which we shall deal later on in the year," he said, evidently referring to friction between the Papal State and Fascist Italy since the signing of their Concordat (TIME...