Show NO OFFENSE TO GERMANY I Vatican Replies to Von on Protest Pro Iro test et Concerning Co the tb Ex Hi Extolling tolling lolling St U Charles Berlin June Juno H laThe The Vatican has re replied replied replied plied to the protest of or the tho Prussian I government against the Is Issued Issued sued by the pope on the occasion of the tercentennial of the canonization of St Charles The Tile reply disavows any Indention of offending German Protestants and says the encyclical is withdrawn so 80 far tar as 88 Germany Is con oon concerned concerned In the encyclical the tho pope extolling Borromeo as tho champion of Catholicism cism against Protestant reformation said ald he established at tho the time of the Council of Trent that tho the principles of Catholicism had been undermined by Martin Luthor Luther The reference was re ro resented resented by German Protestants and in reply to an Interpellation In the Prussian Prussian sian an diet Chancellor von Ton Bethmann said aid that the matter had been taken up with the Vatican Today Toda the tho government published an abstract of the tho correspondence with Rome name The results are set forth as follows First The curia expresses regret over the whole hole affair second It re ro repeats repeats peats the assurance that the encyclical was Intended to Insult neither the Ger Gor German German Gorman man people nor German Protestants third the bishops not alone of ot Prussia but of all aJi Germany have been Instruct Instructed ed d by b the pope popo not to 10 make the Ih ency encyclical lIcal known In the dioceses and fourth the curia authorizes the publication publication cation callon of or the correspondence |