New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-15
END OF THE POPE's TEMPORAL
POWER.

The PapaI See shows signs of returning rea-
SOD, and Pope and Cardinals begin to realize
that it may be wiser TO accept tribute from tho
King OF Italy, and remain in Rome, than to
wuldtr homeless, dependent upon an unsympa-
tLzing world So ungrateful the Catholic States
that hesitate to come to the rescue, and snatch
the See from the embraces of light aud Of liberty.
1t is announced that IN arrangement is about to
be made between the Pope and the King Victor
Emanuel, snd that yearly pension Of 81, 100000
10 offered to the former for abandoning once and
.Oreyer his temporal pretensions This generous
offer on the part of the Italians proves the earn.
estress of their desire to bring about an equits-
Die solution 10 this difficult question.
Whether the eventual abandonment of temporal
dominion will serve to reinyigorate aud to purify
Pipacy, is question upon which the doctors,
philosophers, religlonlsts, and purists of the
Church are divided. For our part We believe
that should the proposition OF the Cabinet of
Turin be accepted by the Pope, this century viii
see the end Of one Of the greatest abuses and
plaques transmitted to it from the dark ages. II
is not however, the first time that an attempt to
reduce the See to its true position rs religious
power has been made in our time; and it was,
indeed almost successful, if coucordat signed by
Pope and gwen under the seal of the Fisherman
has any value.
In 1913 the Pope Plus VII, almost canouized
BY the Church, resided in Fontainebleau, near
Paris. On the 18th of January of that year bis
Holiness signed concordat with Napoleon l.. by
virtue of which he forever resigned for himself
and his successors oil temporal power, and sban-
don,d the patrimouy or homestead of st. Peter
to France. BY an article Of the concordat the
Poe to receive two millions OF francs
(SstC,COU), the Cardinals, the various Papal
tLaLoerl,s, were to be taken care of by France,
ana tie Papal residence was to be in Ayignon.
This concordat, which was sisoed aud celebrated
amid great pomp, was to be the evidence Of con-
citation between the world and the Roman religion
or at least was SO considered by Plus VII.
The downfall of Napoleon prevented the exc
cuiOn Of this instrument. The Roman See,
emerging from the ruins of the Napoleonic cm-
| pure, WAS tie first to protest against ani
uunbilate it, But all this cannot blot the con.
cordat from the record of history; that now
proposed will constitute o second act in tho
drama OF the humiliation Of Papal Temperatures.
Tie cOunseors Of the Papacy, nevertheless are
doing oil ia their power to prevent It's making
q deceut exit from the stage of political events
Cardinal Antonel, in the name OF the See, has
recently published the most violent and venoluous
onslaught upon universal suffrage in Italy, as
well as al over the world. 1t is not unusual
for nen in power to forget or to Willy the prlni.
I've source whence their power was derived.
In the best and purest times Of the primitive
Church, oil the Bishops--tbe Roman Bishops
included--rere elected by the sutirages Of the
faithful of the diocese. Thus, Unexpectedly TO
hin self, st. Anselm. one OF the loftiest charac-
t.rs OF the Church, was chosen Bishop Of Milan.
Tie Bishops of Rome, when they began to stylo
themselves Popes, were elected as such by the
people Of that city, even so late as the tenth
century. The institution of Cardinals is q subse-
quent growth, and belongs to IN epoch whom the
cutlery against the pride aud corruption prevail