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President Loubet’s Visit to Rome

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 16, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 24.

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President Loubet’s Visit to Rome

THE contemplated visit of President Loubet of France to the Italian court will be, it is said, the first official visit of the head of a Catholic nation to Rome since the pope's loss of temporal power. Ever since that event, there has been an unwritten papal law that no Catholic ruler shall visit the head of the power which stands in the way of the pope's exercise of temporal sovereignty. Whether the French president will break through this restriction, and whether in that event the pope will refuse to admit him at the Vatican, are questions much discussed in French and Italian diplomatic circles.