MUSSOLINI

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1929, Page 5

MUSSOLINI

ON VATICAN STATUS. (United Press Association.—B> Electri. , -- Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, March 10. In a speech to four thousand delegates at the Opera House in Homo, Signor Mussolini defended the Concur, dat with the Vatican as being the only logical and beneficial separation of the Church and the State. Each, lie said, now possessed its own rights, fluties, powers and limits. It was futile to talk of the victors and the vanquished. The agreement was an absolutedly equitable peace between the Quirinal and the Vatican. It was an event of supreme importance to the whole world. The Kingdom of Italy, said Signor Mussolini, with Home for its capital, had been solemnly recognised. Similarly, the State bad recognised the sovereignty of the Holy See, because the supreme head of a universal religion could not he the subject of any Stiite. He concluded: “We have conceded torthe.. Rmnap Catholic Church a preeminent place in the religious life of the? Ithjinn people, which is pre-emi-nently-! ulloinan Catholic people, but this-■‘•does not mean that any cither denominations' will be suppressed, or lived 1 'jiqrrassod.”