Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-07-10
FRANCE AND POPE
NEAR AGREEMENT
Conflict of Church and State End
ing as No Catholic Would
Predict
MORE JUVENILE DEPRAvITY
PapaI Secretary of State Ex-
presses Regret in Order TO
German Bishops
MORE JUVENILE DEPRAvITY

PARIS. july 9.-The controversy
which has been aroused in Germany
by the recent rapal encyclical has been
watched by the French Roman Cath
olic organs here with the conviction that
the issue of the conflict would be alto
gether different from what 1t has
turned out to be. This is a fact which
it would not be difficult to prove by
citing passages from articles which
have appeared in the Roman Catholic
press during The last few days, but 1t
may be sufficient to observe that even
in the encourage of the archbishop OF
Paris the attitude of the Vatican in
giving instructions that the encYelical
was not to be read from the pulpits or
published in the episcopal gazettes in
Germany is one which would by no
means appear to have. been expected.
and which will therefore have caused
much surprise. The Roman Catholic
organ, the Gaulois, published several
days ago an interview with high Off :.
cial of the diocesan administration o.
Paris, In which that authority said that
those who urged the pope to withdraw
his encyclical displayed their ute"
ignorance of religious questions. Such
retraction was improbable and impos-
sibe And NJ. Julien de Marion, the
well informed writer who deals with
marks:
"This was a view shared by the en-
tire French episcopatc, and. l might
add, by all French Catholics. This is
due no doubt. to our exceptionally
lofty and sensitive conception of the
honor of the holy see"
NJ. D. Marion further says: The
conflict is over, but it has ended in
a way which no Catholic in France
would have ventured to expect, for the
order transmitted by the holy see to
the German bishops, even quite apart
from the official expression of regret
contained in the note of the p9pal sec
rotary of state, is tantamount to the
withdrawal of the encyclical as far as
Germany Is concerned To withdraw
an encyclcal is not to act so as to undo
the fact of it's having been written or
promulgated What Is done is to de-
clare that the encyclcal is regarded
and that it is desired that it should be
So regarded-as null and void. That is
what the Vatican has done"
Pourparlers Of an informal sort
have been taking place between the
government and the church. Recon-
citation is much in the air. The great
est difficulty is likely to come from
Rome IN the framing of modus
vivendi. The pope is insistent on GER
tain questions of principle and can
never forget that parliament broke the
Concordat without consultation with
the Vatican. Nevertheless. the mere
fact that these things are being dis
cussed at this present moment Is an
bishops protest against the character
excellent sign of pacification. The
of the teaching in the elementary
schools contributed very largely to the
present feeling. In the discussion that
ensued in the chamber of deputies cyl
dence was given of the antiChristian
tone of many of the school books. This
undoubtedly shocked public opinion:
backed up. as it was. by statistics OF
the alarming increase in juvenile
crime. Recently the Matin. which has
rents of opinion, has been publishing
articles on this very subject. If the
church were harmonized with the re-
public there would be a greater hope
of staying Juvenile depravity.