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Show No New Cardinals Created at Consistory Allocution of Pope Deplores Alleged Persecution in Several Countries. ROME, March" 27. The Pope held a secret consistory this morning without creating any cardinals, merely peccon-izlng peccon-izlng bishops. The only American was the Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Hlckey, who was confirmed as coadjutor bishop of Rochester, N. Y. Monslgnor Zoblco Racclot was confirmed as auxiliary bishop of Montreal, Quebec. The allocution of the Pope in moderate moder-ate terms deplored the persecution from which thc church suffered ln some countries, and complained of recent events in France, where, besides the diplomatic rupture between the repub- j lis and the papacy, the statesmen are ! preparing for the separation of church nnd state, and for which, the Pontiff asserted again, the Vatican was not responsible, as has been alleged. The Pope also referred to the persecution perse-cution of thc church ln some of the South American republics, especially In Nicaragua and Ecuador, citing the laws passed by thc last named republic against the church, providing for the confiscation of the property of the religious re-ligious orders, Interfering with the liberty lib-erty of thc religious associations and putting obstacles ln the way of the appointment ap-pointment of new bishops. To offset this, the Pontiff mentioned the fact that the arbitration between Chile and Peru had been Intrusted to the papal representative, which had caused the Holy See much satisfaction. |