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The Pope as Balkan Arbiter

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 4, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 42.

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The Pope as Balkan Arbiter

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A DISPATCH from Rome under date of October 22, says: "General Ignatieff has arrived with an autograph letter from the czar, accepting the pope as arbiter in the Balkan question." And thus the influence of the Roman pontiff grows apace; thus is he regaining his lost prestige, not only as a temporal prince, but he is paving the way for being again recognized as head over all the churches, "defender of the faith and corrector of heretics."