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Show TO ?TALY'S KING j Pln1aTns;Righ.t 'to 'Temporal Power and Asks Ending of Wartime Restrictions. ! ROME. May 31. Popo Benedict has '.issued a letter announcing that. while ho maintains the claims of the Holy I See to temporal power, ho rescinds the order forbidding Catholic rulers to j visit tho king or Italy in Rome. It is i understood the first monarch to visit Rome under tho new conditions will be l King Alfonso of pain. ! Pope Benedict emphasizes the necessity nec-essity of "eliminating the germs of discord which have prevented the full establishment of peace and seriously Injured not only tho temporal Interests ?of the nations, but tho life and spirit of Christianity as taught by the Lord's prayer and the example of our Saviour." Sav-iour." Continuing, the. pontiff renews the promise made by his predecessors for the purpose of protecting the rights and dignity of the Holy see and ask3 that, onco being reestablished, the abnormal ab-normal conditions affecting the head jot the church also be brought to an end as, he says, they are prejudicia to the tranquility of the people. oo |