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Herzegovina the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy tried, as in Albania, whose Catholics never failed in obedience to the Pope, to exploit and support Catholicism for political ends. No religion can evergain either proselytes or ascendancy by such devices. Moreover, universal as is the Church of Rome, its sole basis for development is to identify itself with the worldly ideals of the very society it endeavours to lead in its relations to the Divinity.