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THE POPE AND THE NEGRO.#Pintiff Manifests His Great Interest in the Elevation of the Race.Pope Pius X. has Just munlfe*tcd his great Interest Ir. the abolition of shivery In Africa and In the elevation of the negro people In nil courier!**.One of the most brilliant unitors at the rerent Eueharietlc congress in Rome was n dark skinned J-fatiiui named Benedict SUVahi, He apok* eloquently on the work of redeeming slaves in Africa, and was enthusiastically npph* tided by the thousands who heard him. His application for u prlvat* audience with Plus X. was granted without delay, and the holy father conversed with him at great length, asking for details about th^ Internationa! organization about to be founded to work for the elevation of the A Mean races and blessing his effort* to secure European support for this oblect.A few days later the cardinal secretary of state addressed a lone !ett*r to Senor Sllvaln. warnijj- encouraging him In the name of the holy father to carry on his work for tlm social elevation of the negro races.“You wiy well/* write* his eminence, “that the solemn proclamation of human equality and universal brotherhood was the work of Christ, who us the eldest brother sacrificed His life for all. Not less true and timely Is your r*mlnd*r that the vicars of C'hrlst huvc been unceasing In their protests against the perpetuation of that ignominious social plague known us slavery. Hence the holy father hits seen with special satisfaction that you. In yonr honorable capacity as delegate general of the Pan-African association, hnve Just opened a new Held for your own xr'?»l and that of others by establishing here in Rome a branch association for the social elevation of the black peoples, the lofty of which Ie to combat tho old ntid unreasonable color prejudice, to protect the rights of native Africans from European colonists and to furnish the blacks themselves with the means for rising by their own efforts to the dignity of Christian civilization and for proving to the whole world that It If neither charitable riot* Just that the negro peoples should be forever engaged In services that are necessarily of an inferior kind/*
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Salt Lake City Intermountain Catholic
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sat, Aug 12, 1905
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