"Nothing new yesterday, nothing new tomorrow, nothing new since 1870!" said Cardinal Gasparri last week and thereby brushed into the politico-ecclesiastical wastebaskets, a dozen misconceptions.
Had there not been dawning these several years a glorious rapprochement between Italian State and Mother Church? Did not the Mussolini dictatorship support the Pope more than any other Italian Government in three generations? Did not even the Pope support Mussolini? No, no, and no, is now the official answer.
His Eminence Peter Cardinal Gasparri has been, since the beginning of the present pontificate, Papal Secretary of State, the...
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