Hostility of organized Atheism to the Vicar of Christ,
shown since the French Revolution—Recuperative Power of the
Papacy—Action of the Italian Freemasons—Destruction of the
Temporal Tower—Suppression of Religious Corporations—Illusory
“Guarantee Laws”—Forced Conversion of Church Lands into
“Vinculated” Italian Bonds—Consequences—The Propaganda—Its
Means and Destination—Difference between its Funds and the
Funds of other Corporations—Its Funds respected by Victor
Emmanuel—Action of the Italian Ministry after His Death—Decree
to convert the Estates of Propaganda into “Vinculated” Italian
Bonds—Violation of International Rights in this forced
Conversion—Wrong done to British Catholics by it—Causes why
British Statesmen have not insisted on our rights—Ignorance
of the Origin, Nature and Purposes of the Propaganda
Property—Necessity of Catholics being well informed on this
point, in order to be able to show the nature of the wrong they
suffer to their non-Catholic Fellow-citizens and non-Catholic
Statesmen.