Word: xiii
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...resident in Rome, because the Pope was then a temporal sovereign, governing much of central Italy as well as Rome. Since then, however, U.S. relations with the Vatican have been less formal. In 1902, William Howard Taft, then Governor of the Philippines, successfully sought the help of Pope Leo XIII in getting Spanish friars in the islands to release their landholdings for redistribution to the Philippine people. Woodrow Wilson visited Pope Benedict XV on his way home from Versailles. But not until 1939 did President Roosevelt decide to send Protestant Taylor to the Vatican...