THE POPE 0N IRELAND.
STATEMENT REPUDIATED. F* Tft’egr&pk—Prfias Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. CaV»le Association. (Received April 520, 2 p.m.) Archbishop Mannix, referring 10 the Paris interview s denies that he said that the Pope described the British policy in Ireland as shocking. A message received on Monday said that in an interview at Paris Archbishop Mannix said that the Pope asked him to be his intermediary in condemning the acts of his compatriots in Ireland. He refused, and showed the Holv Father that there was something fine and heroic in Sinn Fein’s war against Great Britain. The Pope finally agreed that the British policy in Ireland was shocking. Dr Mannix declared the persistent rumour that the Vatican intended to issue a condemnation of the Irishmen’s efforts to obtain the freedom of theih country was merely English propaganda.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16405, 20 April 1921, Page 8
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