Vatican Refuses Filipino Overtures, Works Through United States
The United States minister to Spain says that the Filipinos “have made three attempts to open negotiations with the Vatican, all of which were refused.” Now the Filipinos are Roman Catholics. The Catholic Church claims them as hers, and resents any suggestion of Protestants working among them. The Filipinos, then, being Catholics, why does the Vatican refuse to recognize them or to accept any overtures from them, and insist on dealing with them only through the United States government? The reason is plain enough—to get into her net, and to hold and use as her tool there, the United States government, is of infinitely more importance to the papacy than are any of the concerns of the Filipinos.