The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-15
10 SELL VATICAN NAVY
New Pope to Do Away With
Last Of Papal Armament.
Plus WILL NOT TOLERATE B1GoTRY
Denial Of Burial Rites to Hungarian
Count to BE Probed-His Holiness
Adopts the Pet Dove of His Prede-
eessOr.

CessOr.
Pope Plus X. has asked Cardinal
Vannutelli's nephew, formerly lieuten-
ant in the Italian navy, to make an in
ventory of the remnant of the former
papal marine, with a view to selling it,
says the Rome correspondent of the
Philadelphia North American. Among
the ships are three old galleys and
many dispatch boats. 1t will be re-
membered that Pope Leo several years
ago auctioned off the Vatican arsenal.
guns, swords, cannon and ammunition.
The new pope has seemingly decided
to do away with the last mementos OF
old time warlike conditions, as far as
the Vatican is concerned.
The pope has ordered special report;
on the following cases coming under
the Jurisdiction Of the holy see:
At Odenburg. Hungary, the body OF
Count, Itchy was buried with l'rotes-l
tant rites, while a Catholic priest re-
fused to perform his duty because
Itchy had contracted a civil marriage
with his second wife, refusing to accept
the blessing of the church.
Pope Plus wants it understood that
he will not permit intolerance unless
the p~rovocation be of the most urgent
character. He was grieved to learn
that a member of the highest Hun
garian a%ristocracy was buried without
the pale of the church, ard the priest
responsible for this will be punished if
found guilty.
Another case in which an investiga-
ton has been ordered is that of the
village of Guttet, Wallis, Switzerland,
where a whole congregation embraced
Old Catholicism.
In this case the bishop of Sion is
blamed. 1t is said that the bishop in
tended to replace the old village church
by a new editice, while the villagers re-
fused to permit the change. The peas
ants proved obstinate, and, to bring
them to terms, the bishop punished the
village with the interdict forbidding
the saying of mass.
The villagers thereupon applied bap-
tism themselves and held prayer meet
ings under the presidency of their eld-
ers. Finally they engaged an Old Cath
olic priest to take charge of their
church. This is the second Swiss con-
gregation that embraced Old Catholi-
cism this year.
4 His holiness has adopted Leo XIII.'s
pet, a white dove. which the holy ia
ther used to feed at a certain hour ev-
cry morning. The pope allows it in his
ROOM, where it perches on his writing
desk, and, like Leo. he daily ave some
bread crumbs for it's food. This white
dove was among the last visitors Pope
Leo received. On the second morning
preceding his death the winged pet
knocked at his bedroom window with
it's beak, and when admitted flew upon
the bed, walking owe the pope's chest
and looking into his eyes. With great
difficulty Leo laid his hand on the
doves head, petted it gently and whis-
pered a farewell.
The servants Of the Vatican called
the dove the "Holy Ghost" but Pope
Plus, when he heard it, forbade the
designation. which lie called sacrile-
gious.
"Just to prove that the dove is moth
ing but an ordinary pigeon | will feed
it hereafter" he said. "as the great Leo
did"
Several italian artists are at work
painting the scene Leo on His Death
bed Visited by the White Dove.'