Washington telegraph., 1855-09-19
From The London Globe, august 1O.l
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Read! Read! Read!
TIE Pope 6rushing up his Thunder
Recommendation Of tie Hing and
-I'asst'y Of Sardinia. DC.
1t might have been thought that the In
fallibe Father of the Infallible Church.
who had proclaimed to all Christendom bis
egregious exultatiOn in having decreed a
new Article of Faith in this nineteenth CEN
tury. must have laid stock Of ehostly So
lace and graduation sufficient to last his time,
and might have sung his Name dimlttis,
in sublime independence of all sublunary
contingencies.
Much to our concern, however, Pope Pi-
US soul, he tells US, is "desolated with in
credible anguish" What is still more la
mentable is. that the Holy Father finds him
self compelled to do violence to that man.
suetude and mildness which" he acquailts
us-he derives from nature itself, and to
arm himself with that severity which, he
farther acquaints US. his paternal heart holds
in horror!
Spain, Switzerland, Piedmont, have con-
strained Pope Plus to put forth ''the Apos-
/ tolic severity" His Sandman Majesty and
his Ministers are formally declared TO have
incurred the greater accommodation.
and tie other ecclesiastical censures and.
penalties inflicted by the Sacred Canons, the
Apostolic Constitutions the General Coun-
ellis, and above all. the Holy Council Of
( Trent"
The Pope is too gallant man to 90 quite
so far against Queen Isabella at present,
and therefore contents hinSeLf acith re-
DrO6ating and d6rogafing tie recent con-
Stitutt0lak lars Of that country ;. and
declaring them null and Of no cGect. so
far as tiey pretend to regulate ecctesias-
ticat property. or depriUe tie Church Of
its '.p9tyer and LibeTtY'' to engage IN &c
tjUe persecution of meD56erS Of G2zy other
communion qcjEics c1iSts izl Spain
As regards Switzerland his Holiness Is
too much distressed at all that is going on
there. TO unburthen himself in detail of his
griefs against that country; but he means
to hold another allocution to the Secret Con
sistory ON the subject Spain and Pied
mont supply tire lan.eIiiatle suh;aet f.sss-
ter for two allocutions now given to the
world.
The reader viii ask, what are they all
about ? Why, about the law suppresssing
the greater number of monastic orders in
Piedmont, and that, recently passed in
Spain, abolishing the tenure of property in
mortmain, and substituting the public funds
for land as the source Of ecclesiastical reve-
Bues.
In short, as General Xavala, the Spanish
Minister for Foreign Affairs, tells his Holi-
ness very plainly, in answer to his present
remonstrances. the main dispute is about q
matter of money. The Queens Govern
ment," writes the Minister, 'cannot forbear
from expressing the profound concern with
which, animated as it is by sincerely Catho-
lie dispositions. it secs the Holy See engag-
cd in a struggle in whichever granting
all its Notwithstanding is in question
but material and mundane Interests
We shall not, Of course, enter into the
argument between the Pope and the Cen
eral as TO the right sense of the Concordat
Of 1851. The latter, indeed, cuts that
question short, in a style which might sug-
gest matter for reflection to his Holiness, by
saying that. lat the point things have low
reached-at The height which the question
must HOW be treated-it matters little whe-
tler the terms of the article of the Concor-
dat in question should be understood in one
way or another.
That is a slight intimation to Plus X,
that he is not living in the age of Gregory
VII. His Holiness, however, is in his alti-
tudes also, and insists that the Concordat
definitely established that the Catholic Re
Iigion ''Sho7tld continue to be the only re-
Jjgiosl of the Spanish a1atj0,s. to tjie en-
ciusjOn Of eCery Other grOJShip, and that
the Church should always retain the uses of
her primitive right to acquire new property,
held by whatever title or tenure, and that
this right of property in the Church, should
be inviolable, not only for what it then pos
sessed, but what it nigh, acquire hereaf-
ter
As regards the matter of money, which
is the really substantial part Of the griev-
ance. Gen. Xavala replies that the Church
is only included in the general rule now es-
tablished against the tenure of property
an nlortnaia. and has no right to complain
that it is included in the general rule,
which admits no exception. ecclesiastical or
secular.
With regard to the alleged infringement
of the rights.of the Catholic religion as the
sole religion of Spain, the Minister points
out that no other form of public worship is
permitted The liberty of the Church then,
one would think. remained intact even to
the extent that no other Church herself en-
joys vestige Of It
This is not enough however, for Church
which has had an Inquisition at its orders
ThroUOhOrt these attentions the IiBexfu
and FOlcer of the Church are always cou-
pied. DO you cell the Church free, re-
monstrates his Holiness, ''aUhere she nsay
nat perSecaste heyetics at their oi0n hedTthS
as aCcII as inteTdict their altarS2"