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Pope Goes Outside the Vatican Precincts

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 2, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 59.

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Pope Goes Outside the Vatican Precincts

SINCE the fall of the temporal power of the Papacy, one form of protest against the new order of things has been the seclusion of the pontiffs in the Vatican. For this reason the Pope has been called a prisoner in the Vatican. But his self-imposed captivity has now been broken, according to a report in the Washington Post of Nov. 15, 1915:—
Pope Benedict has made an important departure from the custom of the pontiffs, by visiting the Church of St. Anna, adjoining the apostolic palace, and thus going outside the Vatican precincts, according to the newspaper Giornale d'Italia.