Show church is becoming too devoted to money new borit dec 4 A cable dispatch from rome saye the vatican correspondent of the stampa at turin is authority for the that when a few days ago Mon alenor thomas S byrne bishop of nashville tenn was received in private audience by the pop the con ot the pontiff pally upon serious abuses which are said to he found in the church in america and which puia X declared ho was determined to suppress at any cost the pontiff deprecated the custom followed in many american dioceses lo 10 exact an entrance fee on sundays and holidays from the people attending att anding rota in the churches in the opinion of the pontiff such a custom mut n abolished aa it practically constitutes a hindrance to poor people attending ahr church the pope spoke very emphatically of the fact that he knew how some 0 the american bishops had surrounded themselves with more luxuries than even the pope thought himself entitled to pins X added that the time was biot fr distant when he be enabled to extend his avor k of reform to the church in ambric and send there tome of h member 0 the orders which he cons d ere a the right arm of the pope as apostolic apor visitors to report on actual conditions |