POPE'S PORTRAIT TORN
OUTRAGE IN ITALIAN TOWN A CHANCERY RANSACKED. ROME, June 10. The offices of the Episcopal Chancery at Priverno were ransacked, the doors battered down, documents thrown into the streets, the crucifix 'broken, and the Pope’s portrait torn.' The Osservatore Romano points out that the incident indicates the gravity of the earlier happening's, which the Fascist! ajre trying to belittle. Monsignor Pizzardo, papal under-secretary, who is also the assistant-general of the Catholic Action Society, has r .resigned, supposedly as the result of. tile Government’s insistence that he is a Vatican subject, and not an Italian, for which he could not bo tolerated as the society’s leader. /■ ;
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21359, 12 June 1931, Page 7
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