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Vatican Appoints Filipino Bishop at Taft's Request

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 26, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 34.

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Vatican Appoints Filipino Bishop at Taft's Request

At the request of Governor Taft, the Vatican has appointed a native Filipino bishop. The Vatican has deferred to the governor also in the selection of an “apostolic delegate” at Manila. In this transaction the civil power in the Philippines appears in the light of a quasi-dictator in the affairs of the chief religious power in the islands. This, one American journal truthfully observes, is “a novel method of separating church and state.” It is in just this way that church and state are being “separated” in American affairs to-day.