During the Tripoli War of 1910,  the Secretary of State came to Pope Pius X with the figures of Italian casualties,  he was declared much moved:
 

"But this is nothing - nothing compared with those in the guerrone to come." [Guerra is the Italian for 'war', and the suffix - one means 'huge'].
 

When informed,  in 1912 by Merry del Val,  about the second Balkan conflict, he said that, that too was nothing,  because in a short time, the guerrone would be on them all.  When he was walking in the Vatican gardens in the early summer of 1914 with the Brazilian Minister,  Signor Bressau,  who had presented his departure credentials, Pius X said:
 

"You are lucky indeed, my friend, to be leaving Europe at this moment.  You will thus avoid the greatest war of all times,  which is just about to break over us all."
 

The Kaiser,  in his Memoirs,  describes the interview he had with Pope Leo XIII.  What interested him most was Pope Leo's insistence that,  b ywar,  if necessary,  the Holy Roman Empire should be restored,  and to this end, "Germany must become the sword of the Catholic Church".  Following are the Kaiser's own words:
 

"It was of interest to me that the Pope said to me on this occasion that Germany must become the sword of the Catholic Church."   -Behind the Dictators, page 20.
 

The Vatican had Catholic-controlled Germany and Catholic Austria in her pocket,  to further her desires for world supremacy.

All this was stated before the two shots were fired in Sarajevo!

He also explained the coming guerrone in more practical terms.  It had been rendered inevitable,  he said,  by the behaviour of the European governments since 1870  (when Temporal power was taken from the Pope), and the 'base attacks' on the Catholic Church in other countries - Bismarck in Germany,  Combes in France, Costa in Portugal,  Cavour and Crispi in Italy.  Their punishment was merited,  and their peoples were about to atone for the sins of these men by a guerrone such as had never been known in human history.  Now that is is interesting, is it not?
 
 

1914

"Serbia and the Holy See negoiated on a concordant that lasted four months and was completed just before the Sarajevo assassinations.  The Serbian Concordat with its uncompromising terms in which it was drawn up,  made war inevitable.  Pope Pius X... would be part responsible for the bloodiest war which has ever been fought.  This act was the Serbian Concordat of 1914,  dealing with the 'Protectorate' of Catholics in the Balkans."   -The Power of Rome in the Twentieth Century, by A. Anthony Rhodes,  page 223.

M. Herriot announced in the French Chambre that Pope Benedict XV had attempted to sow distrust and discord among the Western Allies;  and that the Pope had done all he could to dissuade the United States from supplying the Allies with weapons,  munitions, and food...
 

1916

Germany informed the Vatican that after she had won the war,  they would restore the city of Rome to the Holy See.
 

1917

The German prelate Cardinal Hartmann offered Pope Benedict XV in the name of the Kaiser the presidency of the Peace Conference after Germany has won the war.

In England, the Prime Minister, Lloyd George,  accused the Vatican in 1917 of  'plotting a German peace'.

"Then, the Holy See thought of bringing together France and Austria,  so hoping to make France sign a seperate peace [surrender] or demand that,  with her allies,  they should negotiate a general peace...

On March 31, 1917, Prince Sixte of Bourbon gave a famous letter from the emperor Chatles to the President of the Republic.

"Break up the temporal forces of the 'Entente' in order to stop its offensive attacks,  ruin its moral prestige... to weaken its courage and bring it to terms... these two things make up the politics of Benedict XV and all the efforts of his impartiality always has been and are still aimed at hamstringing us."    -Louis Canet,  Le Politique de Benoir XV,  (Revue de Paris, 15 Oct. & 1 Nov. 1918).

The Italian Government attributed the Italian defeat at Caporetto to 'Vatican and Jesuit pacifist propaganda'.

"The Italian Foreign Ministry is convinced that the Vatican has been conniving with the Central Powers,  by whom the peace proposals were inspired."   -Despatch,  Sir R. Rodd to A.J.  Balfour,  2/11/1917.
 

1918

In New York,  on January 15, F.E.  Westcott,  later a minister to President Hoover,  stated in New York,  that  "Austria is in close agreement with the Pope,  who was directly responsible for the disastrous retrear last October of the Italian Army at Caporetto".  He added that copies of defeatist propaganda,  distributed among the troops,  had been printed in the Vatican,  and that the Pope ought to be tried. 

"I do not mind blood,  I do not mind slaughter, I do not mind revolution so long as we get what we wish to accomplish."   -Archbishop Kelly of Sydney, 1919.  [pictured]
 

1919

At the peace conference after the Great War,  the Pope was specifically barred [by the Treaty of London]  from attending,  because of his conspiracy with defeated Germany and Austria.
 

1920

The French journal La France Libre complained on May 15.

Fifteen years ago, the Vatican seemed on the point of collapse... Now after the greatest war in history,  in which all the belligerents suffered the most fearful destruction and loss of life, only one victor emerges - the Vatican.

"Upon the 31st of May,  1923,  the Bible was publicly burned in the streets of Rome.  In the presence of a large concourse of people,  presided over by dignataries of the Catholic Church,  a number of immoral books,  with which the Bible was included,  were set ablaze in front of the church of St. Maria in Dominica."    -Protestantism Imperiled, page 77.