A spokesman for the Vatican’s Secretariat of State declared here this weekend that there has been no change in the Holy See’s position on the question of Jerusalem since the Pope’s speech on this issue June 21. The Pope on that occasion called for the granting of an international status to the holy places in Jerusalem. Vatican circles have since explained that this suggestion is different from internationalizing the city. The latter, they noted, is a strictly political matter while the former is a juridical one. The Vatican’s announcement was made at the conclusion of the visit to Rome by Msgr. Pio Laghi, the Apostolic Delegate in Jerusalem. The Catholic prelate had consulted here with the Vatican’s Secretary of State and other high officials on what the Catholic Church’s reaction should be to the recent United Nations Security Council Resolution on Jerusalem and Israel’s reaction to it.
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