Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rouen, the Archbishop of that name presided over a meeting of Catholics at which General de Castelnau and the Marquis de la Ferronaye spoke. The meeting passed a vote of censure on the Government for sponsoring the suppression of the French Embassy to the Vatican (TIME, June 30, Sept...
...Then with a folly as incredible as that of the Vatican itself, the Methodist ministers, whose game was perfectly simple because the Pope had played it for them, and who had nothing to do but sit quiet, promptly issued an address of exultation which can only he called scurrilous, and with equal promptness I canceled the arrangements I had made for seeing them...
...only satisfaction I had out of the affair, and it was a very great satisfaction, was that on the one hand I administered a needed lesson to the Vatican, and on the other hand I made it understood that I feared the most powerful Protestant Church just as little as I feared the Roman Catholics...
Commented the Jesuit weekly's writer : "The condition for an audience imposed by the Holy Father on non-Catholic Americans was, in view of the evident facts, most proper. . . . For years they [Methodists] had acted worse than blackguards. . . . The Vatican in such a case can take no risk in safeguarding the dignity of the Vicar of Christ...
...Catholics in France have protested against closing of Church schools in Alsace-Lorraine, which is still under the old ecueordat in its relations with the Vatican. Anti-Clericals, or men who like Herriot are indifferent to religion as long as it does not interfere with the State, look on the Church as the chief tool of the royalists among the common people. The growth of socialism and communism have gone hand in hand with an increasing distrust of the church, until now the radicals, as a vital wing of the majority coalition, have decided that France shall have no official...