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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 18, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 42.

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Vatican Press Agency.—And now we are told in a news despatch from Rome that Cardinal Rampolla's plan of a Vatican press agency is soon to be realized. The annual subsidies to Catholic papers is to be cut off, and it is said that all will have to submit sooner or later. These papers have many times in either news or comment stated papal matters incorrectly, and it has been an annoyance and a trouble to the pope. Now he proposes to establish a press agency, so that all Catholic papers, at least, will not consider as genuine any item of news which is not received direct from the Vatican information office.

Others think that it will be a failure, however, and that newspaper correspondents will obtain information before the Vatican authorities desire their secrets to be given to the world. However, it will not make so much difference in this country, as most of the great newspapers are under Catholic control already, or at least are not antagonistic to Roman Catholicism.