The daily times., 1922-01-21
SAIN ONLY FEW DAYS
ne Pope Was Suffering With
bronchial Trouble When
pneumonia Developed Earlv
yesterday and His Life Had
6een Despared of throughout
Yesterday and Today.

Say and Today.
Rome, Jan. -(Reuter's) Pone
Benedict died today. Pope Benedict's
eHorts toward peace were TINS sum-
moned up by Cardinal Logue: Our
ing the late war every. effort was
made to induce the Pope to side with
one belligerent or another. but he
went straight as an arrow. He made
justice and right triumph over op-
preston. There was not one of Pres
1dent's Wilson's fourteen points that
was not included in the pontiff's
peace conditions.
Ihe people were deeply grieved by
the conflict which resulted from eff
forts to obtain Ireland's freedom.
He was appealed to intervene in be-
half of the Irish Republican move
ment, but Archbishop Hayes on re-
turning from the Vatican in 1921,
SAID that he was following the policy
OF neutrality and impartiality. He
condemned crime in Ireland by either
side and repeatedly expressed the
hope that violence there would end.
Pope Benedict declined, in May
1920, to authorize the Catholic
church to participate in world
conference Of religions which had
been proposed to him by a group of
Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States. Cardinal
Gaspari told the bishops: Rather
than a reunion of the Christian
churches, the Holy See aims at the
unity of the church which, in the
opinion of Rome, can only occur by
all returning to the Catholic church.
In December 1920 the Vatican is
sued decree requesting the Catholic
bishops to pay vi1igant attention to
such societies as the Young Mems
Christian Association on the ground
that they corrupted the faith of
Catholic youths. The Pope urged the
Knights OF Columbus to combat
against the Catholic
faith.
The Pope took occasion on numer-
GUS instances to express his view
thoroughly on some political and So
cial questions. Early in 1920, he sent
a letter to an Italian bishop urging
the Catholic priests to work intelli-
gently and energetically against what
the Pope characterized as the "dan-
gerous doctrine of the Socialists" He
repeatedly denounced immodesty in
women's dress, and what he termed
the indecency of fashion. On another
occasion, circular was issued by his |
direction to diplomats accredited to |
the Holy See asking them to add to l
the invitations to official receptions
a note requesting women to avoid |
decollette gems.
The Pope declared in an address |
to the Sacred College that the world |
was afflicted with five great plaques
which he enumerated as the negation
Of authority, hatred among brothers,
thirst for pleasure, disgust for work |
and forgetfulness of the supernatural
objects of life. These evils, he as
serted, could be overcome only byI
he aid of the gospel.
In a secret consistory in December
1e declared that the Catholic church
would never abolish, nor mitigate l
he law imposing celibacy on the
clergy nor intrOduce demOcraticI
orms which had been asked by
priests in Czecho-Slovakia where a |
movement had been based
IN that appeal.
ions between the Vatican and
Trance and Germany was attributed
o the diplomacy of Pope Benedict
The healing of the breach between
he Vatican and France which re-
ulted from the separation of the!
hurch and state in that country was
rowned by the canonization Of
oan of Arc as a saint
His voice was raised in approval of
he aims of the Washington confer
nee on the limitation of armament
nd in a letter to President Hardingl
be Pope commenced his initiative in
alling it. His efforts on behalf of
7ar prisoners were unremitting and
e personally a3HSalsyk to the pre-
ates Of the church to promote amity