Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-22 | Page 1 | Knights Offer Pope Benedict Haven in U. S

KNIGHTS OFFER POPE BEflEOIET ; HEN IN U. S. Protection Assured Pontiff in Case Grave Trouble Arises In Italy ROME, Oct. 22 As a result of the war. the chief sources of the Vatican's income, represented by Bavaria, Austria, Aus-tria, Belgium and Franco, became so impoverished that Pope Benedict was iil.liu-erl to appea to Spain, Latin-America and the fnlted States, declares thjS Oiomale d'ltalla, in an article un-det un-det the caption of "America, the Papay's Hope" The newspaper add? when Monslgnor Bonavehture Cerret-ti. Cerret-ti. under secretary of state at the Vatican, Vat-ican, went to America to attend the golden jubilee of Cardinal Gibbons, a report was circulated that he had gone with the object of negotiate a loan of $1,000,000 for the Holy See. In reality, however, his object was to collect col-lect Jl.000,000 from the American Catholics. Monslgnor Cerettl, the newspaper declares, appealed to the Knights of Columbus. The delegation of knights which recently came to Koine, is said to have offered Pope Benedict $250,-000 $250,-000 promising the remainder, or a sum which perhaps might even exceed the $1,000,000 "Besides," says the Journal, "the knights gave the pope to understand that if grave, troubles should arise In Italy he could find protection and hospitality hos-pitality in America. After Rome was occupied by Italian troops In 1S70, a French Vessel awaited the orders of Pope Plus for a year at Civita Vecchlal and the knights said that In the event of a new crises, an American ship would lake a similar position."