BRITISH PILGRIMS IN ROME.
A SECRET ADDRESS CAUSES SOME
INDIGNATION. Rome, November -This morning, in the Clementine Saloon of the Vatican, the Pope received the English pilgrims. His Holiness was in such good health that he was able to walk alone with the sole aid of his stick.
He replied to the address _of the pilgrims in an extempore s'peech, in the course of which he said that he was very grateful to the Catholic Association for its work in developing Catholicism in England.
Although! this was the first pilgrimage since the accession of King Edward, the Pope did not refer to it, obviously wishing thereby to enter a silent protest against the Coronation Oath.
But what was even more strange was that the address of the English Catholics was not even read, but was handed to the Pope by Bishop Whiteside in writing, and its contents were kept absolutely secret.
According to the Papal Secretary of State the address contained renewed wishes that the Pope might recover his temporal power, but' after the stir caused by the former pilgrimage headed by the Duke of Norfolk it was deemed better to avoid any possibility of a repetition of hostile manifestations on the part of Italy against the English Catholics.
The Vatican therefore preferred to keep the terms of the address secret. As a matter of fact, it was only known to the leaders of the pilgrimage, namely, Bishops Whiteside and Bourne.
The British pilgrims have presented to the Pope an offering of Peter's pence to the value of £2000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11843, 21 December 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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