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Show 1 . Pope Will Not Receive Loubet. A cablegram from Rome to the Xew York "World says: "Notwithstanding all the pressure brought to bear to persuade the Pope to receive President Loubet Lou-bet on his forthcoming visit to Rome, Pius X has decided not to receive him.. It is not because of the. conditions existing between the Vatican and the Quirinal. nor because the French president is not a member of a royal family, as other chiefs of republican re-publican states have been received at the Vatican, even after they had paid visits to the king of Italy. . "The real reason is to be found in the attitude) of the French government toward theChurch, and the extraordinary measures taken to deprive religious reli-gious orders of their properties and rights. To French bishop who recently came to Rome am who was trying to persuade the Tope, to receivt j Loubet, Pius X replied: ' - ' "Xo matter what the cost will be, we -cannot receive the French president. Our duty is to follow fol-low strictly the decisions of our- predecessors regarding re-garding the hostile chiefs of Catholic countries who come to Rome, r-nd nothing can change our at titude on this point.''' |