London, Dec. 27.
The Unionists state the Papal Decree excommunicating private individuals who, without: obtaining permission of the ecclesias tical authorities, summon any ecclesiastic before a criminal or civil tribunal as defendant or witness, will be the basis of an appeal to the British electorate. They point out that it excommunicates those who enact laws aimed at the Church of Rome. Thus the Charch will stand niter at the doors of the Irish Parliament.
The "Morning Leader," while UN
849 tion of the decree, agrees that the document is capable of being misrepresented as a danger. that its appearance now that the Church of Rome is afraid of Home Rale.—Reuter.
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