INTERNATIONAL: Disappointed Ruler

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The Papal daily L'Osservatore Romano replied last week: first that Pope Pius has never said that scientists are persecuted in Russia; second that Galileo was censured by the Church not as an astronomer or scientist per se, but because his teaching that the earth revolved instead of remaining stationary as the Church then taught was contrary to theology; third that the suppressed astronomical works in question have not been kept locked up in the secret archives of the Vatican since the 17th century but were "placed at the disposal of scholars more than 50 years ago."

News from Paris reached Pope Pius last week that the Academy of Moral and Political Science, a subsidiary of the French Institute, had before it a motion, expected soon to pass, conferring a seat upon the Supreme Pontif. If he accepts this seat in the Academy of Moral and Political Science, His Holiness will be invited to visit Paris in 1932, address the Academy during the celebration of its 100th anniversary.