FRANCE AND THE VATICAN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 6 April 1907, Page 2

FRANCE AND THE VATICAN

MONTAGNINTB LETTERS. REFERENCE TO KING EDWARD DISPROVED. Rome, April 40. It is stated in Rome that Italy never intercfred with a foreign Sovereign'* mode of visiting the Vatican. Italy even allowed the Kaiser to visit the Pope escorted by his own guards. M. PIOC ACCUSED OF DUPLICITY. Paris, April 4. M. Clcmenceau, in a vehement lettet In Le Figaro, declares that M. Piou, who is the most militant memjber of the Catholic party, the Papal re< preventative of lying to the Pope by attributing to a dear friend his "own calumnies. He says Monslgnor Montaginini had no interest in inventing the whole extravagant story, but M. Piou's interest in speaking as alleged was evident, because that at the time of leading to battle all the Republic's enemies were under the banner of Rome. WHAT THE PAPERS REVEAL. CRITICAL PERIOD IN THE CHURCH,

London, April 5. The Times' Paris correspondent, for* warding extracts from Montnginini'a papers, which, he states, were furnished to hint exclusively, declares they reveal, rn M.mtngnini's part, that tile uniml>cnc!i.i'j|<! authority of the ('lunch in Fran.'e, nud possibly throughout ths world, is traversing a great crisis in thi cities. . crslng a great crisis in the cities. On Montagnini's showing, the Ultra* montanes are alarmed at the progress of the Liberal Catholic movement is France, and the profound divergence of views between a portion of the French Episcopate and the Vatican.