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Show POPE CRITICISES WAYS OP flf iERICA Declares That There Arc Serious Abuses in the Catholic Church. x , I NEW YORK.' Dec. 4. A cable dispatch to the World from Rome eay a: The Vatican correspondent of the Stam-pa Stam-pa at Turin is authority for the statement that when, a few days ago, Monsignor Thomas S. Byrne, bishop of Nashville, Tenth, was received in private audience by the Pop", the conversation of the pontiff dealt principally upon serious abuses which are said to be found in the church in America, and which Pius X. declared he was determined to suppress at any cost. -. The pontiff deprecated the custom followed fol-lowed in many American dioceses to exact ex-act an entrance fee on Sundays and holidays holi-days from the people attending mass in the churches. In the opinion of the pontiff pon-tiff such a custom must be abolished, as it practically constitutes a hindrance, to poor people attending the church. The Pope spoke very emphatically of the fact that he knew how soma of the American bishops had surrounded themselves them-selves with more luxuries than even the Pope thought himself entitled to. Pius X. added that the time was not far distant when he would be enabled to e-tend e-tend his work of reform to the church in America, and send there some of the members of .the religious orders which he considered the right arm of the Pope as apostolic visitors to report on actual conditions. con-ditions. . |