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...Newman, who went over to the Church of Rome in 1845, is a case in point.) The Dean declares that the Roman church exhibits the old Roman genius for international government, and to prove that it is a static, not a progressive, type of government, he quotes from the Papal syllabus of 1864: "If anyone says the Roman pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself and come to terms with progress, with liberalism, and with modern civilization, let him be anathema." The Dean sees three remarkably good points in this church government-it makes for loyalty, it keeps in touch...
During the war Mgr. Fumasoni-Biondi was papal delegate to the East Indies. Japan was one of the "islands " under his charge, and he did much to promote understanding between the Vatican and the Mikado...
...functions as papal delegate are purely religious, since the United States has no representative at the Vatican. (A papal nuncio represents the Holy Father in civil matters at those chancelleries which send representatives to Rome...
...connection with the recent Papal election, the University Library has placed on exhibition in the Treasure Room a letter from Dr. Achille Ratti, now Pope Plus XI, written when he was librarian of the Ambrosian Library, Milan. The letter is addressed to Professor Charles Rockwell Lanman, Ph.D., LL.D., Wales Professor of Sanskrit at the University, and editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, and is an acknowledgement of the receipt of a volume of the Oriental Series. There are also two post card receipts of other volumes...
...since the sixteenth century has there been such an admirable chance to study Catholicism as illustrated in the Roman Catholic Church. The Modernists of that church are allied in many ways to Protestant liberalists. The fa- mous papal bull of 1907 defined Modernism with adequate correctness. The Modernists lay emphasis on biblical criticism, relativity of dogma, immanence of God, and the social element in religion. The absolute authority of the pope is questioned. They consider that the authority of the bishops rests on the people and not on their succession to the Apostles. The conception of the Catholic Church...