THE POPE AND PEACE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2642, 13 December 1915, Page 6

THE POPE AND PEACE

! MANY CATHOLICS DISMAYED /- By Teieeraßh—Press Association—OoDyrisht .('''Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) ■ V .; London, December 101 < "The Times" correspondent at Rome ■ • c ' .states: "The"Pope's letter has. been ! most unfavourably received here, . ex- i oept in ultra-clerical circles. Many sin- < ■ cord Catholics arc dismayed at the J ■ Pope's attitude, and his' choice of laii- i . guago .in his reference to peace. , : Complaints have been made. to the i >V iVatican as" the inconveniences, all indi- 1 eating prospects of an active revival of 1 . tho Rome question. j The "Tnbuna". says it is, impossible to imagine a peace not favouring one < side, seeing that the. war broke out be- I , .cause, one belligerent alone-aimed at un- i justly overpowering its; enemies. There- i ; (fore peace cannot be .'concluded' until < i Hhese. aims have been completely frus- 1 l.trated. . ... f.' The "Giornalo d'ltalia" publishes a conversation with Monsignor Tedeschi, one of the Pole's Under-Secretaries of ] i'T ; State,'.who said it would he. unfair to ] ; 'criticise tho Pope for' not condemning i , . certain actions, because, His - Holiness ] Jjoeded a proper invitation.; Interrogatv, 'od, Mbiisignor : Tedeschi said the Pope. . '.was willing to adjudicate on any speeitio . • point if .t'ho., parties .agreed ,to 6ubmit , iboforohand to: 1/iS; verdict. The , "Gior- ' ijale d'ltalia" suggests that the belliger- i «nts _should ask. the Popo whether the ; invasion: of Belgium., was .legitimate. •{