Show I Pa Papal al Legate to 10 Visit Latin American Meet By fly THOMAS AS D. D MORGAN N United Press Presa Staff Correspondent ROME nOME UP Only could cause the pope to send a secretary of state stale away from here and yet d Pius Plus XI to show his esteem for Latin America will send Cardinal Cardi Cardl nal EUJenio Pacem Pacelli to Bu Buenos nos Aires as his le legate ate to the Eucharistic congress con con- gr gross gress SS in October The Napoleonic episode was at the beginning of the last century when Pops Pope Pius Plu VII sent ent his secretory of state Cardinal Ercole Consalvi to conclude the famous concordat regulated the affairs of th the church in France with Bonaparte who was then first consul of the French republic The forthcoming v visit it of Cardinal Pacem is of at a quite different character character char char- acter from rom that of Cardinal Consalvi The circumstances which caused the decision of Pius VII to send the see see- of oC state out of the papal states were tragic It had proved impossible sible to arrive at any accord with Napoleon and the fate tate of the Catholic Catho Catho- lic lie church seemed in the balance in France The decision was anI only taken by Pope Pius VII after a consultation con con- with all the cardinals of or orthe the Roman curia The present present decision decision to send Cardinal Cardinal Cardinal Car Car- dinal Pacelli Pacem as legate to Buenos Duenos BuenosAires BuenosAires Aires has none of the grave significance significance cance in the sense of oC the earlier decision de dc- dc cislon of Pius VII but that it is a handsome compliment to Argentina and to the whole of Latin America there can be no possibility of doubt The act is so interpreted here in ecclesiastical circles and the decision de of Pope Pius XI to send hf his premier t to Buenos Aires is considered consid erect ered as showing his great affection and esteem for Lor his South American children It is t not gener generally realized that of ot the million Catholics who arc are spread about the world the Catholics Catho Catho- lC of or Latin America rica represent one- one third of the papal spiritual domain These members of the faithful arc are I spread among no fewer than die dlO- ceC ceres |