Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-23
Members OF Sacred
College To Meet in Rome
February 2 To Elect
Successor To Late Pop.
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Popc's Peace. Efforts

Pope Benedict's efforts towards
peace were thus summed up by Car.
dinal Logue:
During the late war every effort
was made to induce the pope to side
with one h%elligerent or another but he
went straight as an arrow. He made
justice. and right triumph over oppres-
sion. There was not n Of President
Wilson'S fourteen points that was not
included in the pontiff's peace cond:-
tons"
The Pope was deeply grieved by the
conflict which resulted from efforts
to obtain Ireland's freedom. He was
appealed to, to intervene in behalf OF
the Irish republican, but Archbishop
Hayes on returning from the Vatican
in 1921. said hat We was following
TALLY. He condemned crime in Ire
land by either side and repeatedly ex
pressed the hope hat violence there
would end.
In a letter to Cardinal Logue, the
pope appealed to both English and
Irish to abandon violence and propos.
ed that the Irish question be settled
by a body selected by the whole Irish
nation. When the Irish question
| was at last settled he expressed great
satisfaction and sent a message tc
the Dali Eircann rejoicing ver tho
! peace agreement WHICH made ireland
a free state. y
t. Declines Conferences
! Pope Benedict declined in May, 1919
| to authorize the Catholic church te
! participate in a world conference o.
religions which had been proposed tt
him by Il group of bishops Of thu
Protestant Episcopal church in The
United States Cardinal qasparri tole
the bishops:
Rather than reunion Of the Chris
! tian church, the Holy See aims at tn,
unity of the church which, in thu
opinion OF Rome, can only occur b!
}Al returning to the Catholic church.
In December. 1920, the Vatican Is
sued q decree requesting the Catholic
: bishops to pay vigilant attention u
such societies as the Young Men,
Christian association on the grount
that they corrupted the faith or Gatno
lie youths. The Pope urged tn
Knights Of Columbus to combat propa
ganda against the Catholic faith.
THE pope took occasion on mum
erous occasions to express his view
thoroughly on some political and SO
cial questions. Early in 1920 he sen
a letter to an Italian bishop urging
the Catholic priests to work intelli
gently and energetically against VIVA
! the DCOc lid tASu CF IN NAA'
gerous doctrine of the Socialists III
Repeatedly denounced immodesty ii
women's dress and what he termet
the indecency of fashion. On anothe
occasion a circular was issued by hi
| direction to diplomats accredited t
the Holy See asking them to add I
the invitations to official reception
a note requesting women to avoi
excessively decplletc gowns.
Secs Five Plaques
The pope declared in an address
to the Sacred College that the Wori'
was afflicted with five great plague
which he enumerated as the neeatlo
of authority, hatred among brother!
thirst for pleasure. disgust for wor
and forgetfulness of the s~upernaturs
objects of life. These evils, he assert
cd could be overcome only by the al
Of the Gospel.
In q secret consistory in Decembe'
he declared hat the Catholic churc
would never abolish nor mitigate tn
law imposing celebacy on the clerg
had been asked by priests in Czeche
Slovakia where a secession movemeI
had been based upon that appeal.
The resumption Of diplomatic re
lations between the Vatican an
) France and Germany was attribute
to the diplomacy of Pope Benedic
The healing of the breach betwee
the Vatican and France which r.
suited from the separation Of tn
church and state in that country we
crowned by the canonization of Joa
Of Arc as a saint.
In comment on these new relation
it was pointed out in many quarte'
that during the years when Benedi
XIV had directed the policy Of tt
church there had been an i%ncreasir