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Show RUSS ORTHODOX CATHOLICS MAY RECOGNIZE POPE ROM K, Tuesday, Dee. Cardinal Caspmri. the papal secretary of stale, today denied that Pope Benedict had addressed ad-dressed a enminnniciition to President Wilson, to Secretary of Stale Lansing or to any government setting forth that there wre ex ten uat i tip circumstances regarding re-garding the last vjitican peace note. The holy see. however, is much occu- pied by the Russian situation, the cardi- t nal said, and expects to make a state- ! nient relative to the recent publication of tlie Russian diplomatic ilocuments when 1 the correct text lias been secured. j Cardinal Gaspairi said the Vatican also was wfl teli ins anxiously the chances in the government of Russia. The elitnlria-1 elitnlria-1 ion of the imperial pa rty iias lef c the I holy see free to communicate direct with. Russian Roman Catholics. Heretofore documents intended for a bishop liad to . go through the liands of tlie officials of j Russia's legation to the Vatican. The possibility of orthodox Catholics in Russia finally recognizing the Roman pope instead of the former Russian emperor as head of the church is 'being considered in Vatican circles. |