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...Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Gasparri was believed, last week, to have taken a bold step. This was to arrange an audience with the Pope for Gustav Cardinal Piffl of Austria (TIME, May 2) in the course of which His Holiness allegedly said: "This you will please tell all Catholics, I am not free and the relation between the Church and State in Italy today is exactly the same as on Sept. 20, 1870. We will do all possible in the future, and we will also pray. But we must at the same time be prepared to see even worse...
Gustav Cardinal Piffl, was en route sedately down the Ringstrasse in Vienna, last fortnight, when a newspaper blew from a housetop and enveloped suddenly the head of His Eminence...
Disentangling himself, Cardinal Piffl found his eys arrested by a news item. It told how Hungarian Bishop Zichy had examined at Lequeitio, Spain, the day before a young lad who is the legitimate head of the House of Habsburg and pretender to the throne of Hungary. He, the young Archduke Otto, 15, had been examined for three days by Bishop Zichy, who declared him fluent and proficient in Hungarian, English, German, French, Latin, Greek and Spanish. Said Cardinal Piffl, addressing a parish priest with whom he was walking: "This is a strange coincidence. About midnight last night I awoke with...