Show i FORfEIT i ITS PROPERTY i Catholic C Church in in France R Has as i I Failed t to o Take Advantage of Its Privileges Paris Nov 3 The minister of public instruction and worship M iI Briand to today today I day announced that the government gird did not regard the Catholic church as 1 be e ef I f ng in revolt against the law providing provia for r r the separation of the church and state or against the thc state The Cath Catholic olic olle church having simply sImpI declined to take advantage of its privileges and this the law R as the other othor religions did on De December December cember ember 11 would forfeit its Us I I of or property and thereafter would livo liv under the common law There would woul be neither martyrdom mart nor persecutions of the faithful The churches as state stale and communal property would remake remain open apen for Catholic worship The fhe object for f r which the Republican party parl in io France had struggled for thirty years the minister said had been achieved The concordat was ryas wa at an end the state stute would no longer contribute to the sup support su support port of any i elision and priests would no longer enjoy privileges In both their thelL duties and obligations they be on onan n nI nan nan I an equality with other citizens In oth othe e er r 1 words the state was at nt least neu neutral neutral 1 ral t toward all religions and would per permit permit mit snit the exercise of all of f them with special I favors fa to none |