The failure of certain appointees of Pope Pius X. in diplomatic positions has decided the pontiff to demand a competitive examination among the members of the Curia, that he may find those who are fitted for diplomatic careers. Most of the church diplomats have obtained their experience at a special school called the “Roman Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics.� This the pope recently abolished. The true church of Jesus Christ needs no diplomacy. All of God’s representatives have the message of their Master to give to a dying world. Not by any compromise with states or individuals, but as glad tidings to lost souls.