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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granting, as both parties do, that many a Roman Catholic priest in Malta told his flock that to vote in a certain way would be a "mortal sin"* (for which absolution would be refused), does this constitute interference by the clergy in political affairs...
...Baron Strickland which His Holiness apparently considered "disobedience" was to keep on the Island of Malta a pro-British priest who wished to stay there but had been ordered by his pro-Italian Bishop to leave. Nearly all the citizens of Malta are Roman Catholic, but between the pro-British and the pro-Italians cleavage is sharp...
...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...
...Acts make a concise report of the First Pentecost, the founding of the Christian Church 1,900 years ago last Sunday (June 8), an event which Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Episcopalian Churches celebrate annually with due reverence, which other Protestant denominations observe this year with centennial devotion...
...continue forbidding the marriage of Presbyterians and Roman Catholics...