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Show CARICATURING THE POPE. Agitation has been started by many prominent Catholics in Italy to suppress the several anti-clerical publications which recently have made it their special object to publish caricatures of the Popo and of other church dignitaries. According to the laws of guarantees, it i just, as illegal to publish caricatures of the Pope as it is to caricature the sovereign or any member of the Italian royal family, but for many months past, we are told, the Italian officials seem to have tolerated toler-ated the issuance of publications of the kind, which have caused general indignation among the Italian Catholics. One of the Catholic representatives in parliament, parlia-ment, Signor Santini. has already given notice of an interpellation on the subject. If necessary a bill will be stibmitted.to parliament making it unlawful to publish caricatures of the Pope and other church officials. |