STRICKLAND RECONCILIATION

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1932, Page 7

STRICKLAND RECONCILIATION

APOLOGY TO POPE ACCEPTED.

STORY OF CONDITIONS DENIED.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

Rec. 10 p.m Rome, June 9. A very high official at the Vatican told a Times correspondent that the report uiat the Pope had only conditionally acquitted Lord Strickland and'that Lord Strickland must kneel at the Pope’s feet and verbally renew his contrition was wholly untrue and ridiculous.

The Central News Agency correspondent at Rome stated yesterday: “Acceptance of Lord Strickland’s apology is conditional to the extent that any future act contrary to the interests of the Church will involve the full penalties of excommunication, and furthermore that he must come to Rome and renew at the feet of the Pope his expression of contrition.”

Lord Strickland recently issued a statement regretting that in debates in the English and Maltese Parliaments he clashed with the Church and its authority, and used words which he now withdrew, and for which he asked pardon humbly and without reservation. He further declared emphatically that during the whole of his life he had been fully determined to be a faithful son of the Holy Church, in whose fold ho desired ever to remain.