| Show i THU VATICAN Y AND FRANCE FRANCI I Rumor Humor has It that tho the papal secretary of slate Mate Mgr Merry del Val has Bent BentIn semi In hU hla resignation but that the th pope pop has Ims refused to accept It It this report re report reo port la Is true it must he be h tho the Intention ot of the head hen of tho tIle toman I church to t continue the this contest content t with the tho French Frenc republic for tor tho the friction It Is thought must continue an ns long as liS the tho present presen secretary Is li retained In Tho Tha unpleasantness between church and state In Franco France Is originally duo due to t tho the tact fact that ecclesiastical have havo been suspected of a leaning to toward toa ward a rei the old end order ardor of oC government Ilu Hut lately the tho distrust hoe has resulted In laws law against the religion orders order some MillO a of ot which t v tt cro MO f accused of oC o t teaching po dangerous doctrine Then Thet the tha hl tho the Vatican and mu the government became strained anil the ilia visit of ent Loubet to King 1111 Victor at nt Homo home led to a formal protest prO ORt from tho the pope popo and tho thin withdrawal of at atthe o othe the French ambassador to the Vatican Subsequently charges were filed Ille against two Trench French bishops by political enemies One Ono was accused of oC having u been married and nud the other of oC being a I Mason The rite prelates summoned sun to In Homo Rono for examination They pre presented lI the tho matter to tn till the French cabinet and nail were forbidden to leave cave the court colin country try The French republicans supported the tho bishops and the tha opponents of oC the tho attacked ll then The Tho matter b became cam n 1 political quarrel It U was uns thought that the easiest way for to tho the Vatican out of oC the would be he tho ho resignation ot of the tho coro Cerro of at state Hut evidently the tho pope popo refuses refines to sacrifice u a I trusted friend mind and ear t on the altar of ot expediency and amid who shall my sty Nt thud that th t that course 1 Is not In tho the long looe run the vs and best oost It U It li I significant that while the French l republic Is III treating tho the representatives of oC nome llama with distrust those r pro are meeting with unprecedented dented favor in lit n our own Republic Never before rays nays n II writer In Ul Harpers Weekly have two twit members of DC tho the cab cabinet cabInet inet hid a Justice of ot the Supreme Court and representative legislators and und military and naval nil VII I wit eat down at I dinner with an Italian member ot of atthe the college of oC cardinal cardinals at which he ho was tens the guest of oC honor and a neat mem member neather her ber of ot tho tiro cabinet the host nor has bus hasan formally any an previous ever welcomed n II Homan Catholic Italian prelate as aa cordially as President Hooi welt ell elt recently welcomed Cardinal Sa Title This la is a notable no ble tact fact Catholicism clam cism having to a n large larg extent adapted Itself ls Jr to American It conditions has steadily bei ben ban n gaining in confidence strength and influence In this title country countr |
