Rome, June 22, An order forbidding the bu! lof candles before statues and images in churches in the diocese has been issued by the Pope's Vi i. He says this tends jive the appearance of superstition."—Reuter, London, June 23.
An explanatory statement has eon made by one of the, secretaries of Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, with reference to the order of the Pope's Vicar-General in the Rome diocese. His ord forbids the burning of vote candles before statues and sacred
eas ages on the ground that they superstition" and also ly may give "the appearance of impression that it is being done for gain.
The order asked the clergy to mind worshippers that 'a mass well heard and. communion well ceived would be likelier to obte celestial grace and) favour than thousands of candles.
Cendinal Bourne's official says the "Vicar-General's order cannot poly eneral "unten promtigat to the whole world and anyway it, applies "to. eandieg, burned for private devotional purposes rad way concerns those used before the altar as part of the rules for ceremonial" occasions Reuter,
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