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Anonymous ID: e4ee5d Sept. 11, 2023, 2:40 p.m. No.19532232   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2247 >>2256

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WHY NO OFFICIAL U.S.-VATICAN RELATIONS FOR 117 YEARS?!

 

Vatican Helped in Case of Lincoln Assassination Suspect

L.A. Times Archives

Dec. 31, 1989 12 AM PT

From Associated Press WASHINGTON —

 

There is historical precedent for the Vatican agreeing to turn over a fugitive to the United States, although the Holy See maintains it cannot surrender ousted strongman Manuel A. Noriega from its embassy in Panama.

 

The Vatican adopted an entirely different position when asked to turn over John H. Surratt Jr., one of the suspected conspirators in the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

 

Surratt, a young Confederate spy who had conspired with John Wilkes Booth to abduct Lincoln in 1864, fled after Booth shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Surratt, a devout Catholic, changed his name to John Watson and joined Pope Pius IX’s Zouaves Regiment.

 

Surratt was located in 1866, whereupon Secretary of State William H. Seward notified Secretary of War E.M. Stanton.

 

“As we have no treaty of extradition with the papal government, it is proposed that a special agent be sent to Rome to demand the surrender of Surratt,” Seward wrote Stanton on May 28, 1866.

 

Accordingly, the U.S. envoy to the Vatican, Rufus King, sought a meeting with the Pope’s foreign minister, Cardinal Antonelli, to tell him about Surratt.

 

“His Eminence was greatly interested by it, and intimated that if the American government desired the surrender of the criminal, there would probably be no difficulty in any way,” King wrote Seward.

 

Several months later, having ascertained that Watson was indeed the fugitive Surratt, Seward instructed King to ask the cardinal “whether His Holiness (the Pope) would now be willing, in the absence of an extradition treaty, to deliver John H. Surratt. . . . “

 

So eager was the Vatican to help that it did not even wait for an official request and ordered Surratt arrested immediately.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-31-mn-222-story.html

Anonymous ID: e4ee5d Sept. 11, 2023, 2:43 p.m. No.19532247   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2256

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See%E2%80%93United_States_relations

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/11/world/us-and-vatican-restore-full-ties-after-117-years.html

 

https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-the-holy-see/

 

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/975/vatican-city-u-s-recognition-of

 

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/01/10/US-establishes-full-diplomatic-relations-with-the-Vatican-for-the-first-time-in-116-years/2880442558800/

 

Holy See–United States relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See_United_States_relations

 

The current United States Ambassador to the Holy See is Joe Donnelly, who replaced the ad interim Chargé d'Affaires, Patrick Connell, on April 11, 2021. The Holy See is represented by its apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, who assumed office on April 12, 2016. The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See is located in Rome, in the Villa Domiziana. The Nunciature to the United States is located in Washington, D.C., at 3339 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.

 

History

1797–1867

The United States maintained consular relations with the Papal States from 1797 under President George Washington and Pope Pius VI to 1867 and President Andrew Johnson and Pope Pius IX.

Diplomatic relations existed with the Pope, in his capacity as head of state of the Papal States, from 1848 under President James K. Polk to 1867 under President Andrew Johnson, though not at the ambassadorial level.

These relations lapsed when on February 28, 1867, Congress passed legislation that prohibited any future funding of United States diplomatic missions to the Holy See.

This decision was based on mounting anti-Catholic sentiment in the United States,[1] fueled by the conviction and hanging of Mary Surratt, and three other Catholics, for taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Her son, John Surratt, also Catholic, was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

He served briefly as a Pontifical Zouave but was recognized and arrested. He escaped to Egypt but was eventually arrested and extradited.

There was also an allegation that the Pope had forbidden the celebration of Protestant religious services, which had been held weekly in the home of the American Minister in Rome, within the walls of the city.[2]

Anonymous ID: e4ee5d Sept. 11, 2023, 2:45 p.m. No.19532256   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2261

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>>19532223

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See%E2%80%93United_States_relations

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/11/world/us-and-vatican-restore-full-ties-after-117-years.html

 

https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-the-holy-see/

 

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/975/vatican-city-u-s-recognition-of

 

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/01/10/US-establishes-full-diplomatic-relations-with-the-Vatican-for-the-first-time-in-116-years/2880442558800/

 

Holy See–United States relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See_United_States_relations

 

The current United States Ambassador to the Holy See is Joe Donnelly, who replaced the ad interim Chargé d'Affaires, Patrick Connell, on April 11, 2021. The Holy See is represented by its apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, who assumed office on April 12, 2016. The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See is located in Rome, in the Villa Domiziana. The Nunciature to the United States is located in Washington, D.C., at 3339 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.

 

History

1797–1867

The United States maintained consular relations with the Papal States from 1797 under President George Washington and Pope Pius VI to 1867 and President Andrew Johnson and Pope Pius IX.

Diplomatic relations existed with the Pope, in his capacity as head of state of the Papal States, from 1848 under President James K. Polk to 1867 under President Andrew Johnson, though not at the ambassadorial level.

These relations lapsed when on February 28, 1867, Congress passed legislation that prohibited any future funding of United States diplomatic missions to the Holy See.

This decision was based on mounting anti-Catholic sentiment in the United States,[1] fueled by the conviction and hanging of Mary Surratt, and three other Catholics, for taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Her son, John Surratt, also Catholic, was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

He served briefly as a Pontifical Zouave but was recognized and arrested. He escaped to Egypt but was eventually arrested and extradited.

There was also an allegation that the Pope had forbidden the celebration of Protestant religious services, which had been held weekly in the home of the American Minister in Rome, within the walls of the city.[2]