let these Italians demand that the human
race kneel down in the dust of degrading
servility and kiss their nasty feet !
Suppose they are sweatty, and smell bad?
Ugh! The very thought of kissing the
clammy feet of a dead Italian priest, is enough
to give a sensible person the screech-owl
shivers.
The name of this new Papa, whom Bishop
Keily of Savannah, Georgia, calls “the ruler
of the world,*’ is in Italian, Giacomo della
Chiesa.
I am reliably informed (excuse the bar
barous expression!) that Giacomo is pro
nounced Gee-ack-o-mo.
For convenience's sake, you might gall it,
“Jackomo,” and be done with it.
“Della” doesn’t mean anything; much: it’s
like the “de” before a Frenchman’s name, or
the O''in front of an Irishman’s.
Della simply implies, “of the.”
- At least, I am told so.
“Chiesa” means, a church.
Giacomo is the equivalent of our James.
Therefore, when you take hold of ihe new
Papa's name, and pull it into English, it goes
Uli is way—■
■ James of the Church.
E If he lived in our midst, and we liked him,
■we’d slap him on the back, and call him,
■Jimmy Church.
■ That’s a mighty nice name, too.
r That the universal Papa of the Roman
Catholic church should bear the name of Jim
Church. I consider highly appropriate.
Our daily newspapers have been slopping
over the popes dreadfully, here of late.
It wasn’t that way, when I was a boy.
In those days the Italian pope didn’t land
on the front page of every paper, every day.
He does now, though.
That’s one of the ways the Italian secret
societies spend their foreign mission money.
You don't see the Italian priests going
THE JEFFERSONIAN
crazy over Chinese missions, Japanese mis
sions and Hindoo missions.
