Identifier: reviewofreviewsw44newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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les to be found in the conscience of The most important of the other acts of a genuine Catholic. Every member of thePius X with regard to the affairs of church church should strive in every circumstanceand state relate to Italy. First of all, there to be, and to appear, truly Catholic, acceptingis his action respecting Italian elections. He public duties and performing them with theactually decreed that any Italian Roman firm and constant resolve to promote with all(Catholic might exercise the right of suffrage, his power the social and economic welfare ofthat he might determine the character of the his country in accordance with the maxims ofcivil government. This evidence of liberalism a distinctly Christian civilization, and at thewas emphasized later by his encyclical ad- same time to defend the supreme interests ofdressed to the Bishops of Italy. His previous the church.encyclical, the Molu Propria of 1903, gave to But all these endeavors were hampered by PIUS X AND HIS REIGN 689
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Copvii^lit by Underwood & Underwood, New Yoik POPE PIUS X 690 THE AM ERICA X REVIEW OF REVIEWS the problem of ihe Prisoner of the Vatican,which prevented the Poi)e from going aboutamong the people. When he was electedPope the unsusji^cting Cardinal Sarto hadan unused return railway ticket to Venice.His personal influence as Pontifif—especiallyin the social and economic world as it may beaffected by religion—would have been fargreater if the outworn fiction that the Popewas a j)risoner in the Vatican had not come tobe an unshakable part of the Vatican policy.But the Roman Curia would not budge, and,night after night, it is said, the new Pope,heartily homesick, would take out that returnticket and gaze long and fondly at it. The reign of Pius X, notable in its rela-tions to church and state, is also notable inits relations to the church alone. First, re-garding preferments. He had not long beenPope when those about him, interested in allsorts of ecclesiastical advancements, came

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