Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-29

r THE PoPE'S ALLoCUTIoN. The allocutlon which the Pope has just vehemently launch ed at his enemies is regarded by the foreign journals as of s'direful significance; it is putting into the concrete the purely specu- lative abstraction of his remarkable encyci- cal letter. This document like the former is protest against progress. But in this the protest is directed to particular 'af- fiction" that hangs over Italy and the Church; namely; the gross insults, abuses and wckedness of the sub-Alpine govern nnent-for it is only by that name that the Pope recognises the Kingdom of Italy. His complaints against the sub-Alpine government are, first, for its attacks upon the Church and its privileges. It has secu- larized marriage, permitting civil marria- ges, thereby destroying the sacredness of marriage and encouraging a concubinage which is perfectly scandalous." It has suppressed religious interpretations and appropriated their property. It has closed the diocesan schools against the clergy; ex- lied priests, shut up convents and sent the virgins into the world, taken the education of Catholic youths out of the pale of Chris- tian discipline It has extended it's laws over Venetia and abrogated the convention 'sbetween us and our very near son in Je- gus Christ, Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria
 2 All the laws and acts of the government of Victor Emmanuel the pope declares null and void, and reminds their authors that they have incurred the spiritual pains in ficted by the apostolic constitution.
 The main offense of the sub-Alpine gov ernment, however, is the demand that the Pope shall renounce his civil sovereignty He says that he was invested with civil SOW reignty, or the Roman Pontiff was, upon the fall of the Roman Empire, in the midst of a great variety of Kingdoms, and that it was divinely confided to him by our Lord Jesus Christ. He cannot, therefore, relin- quish it. He is bound to defend it to the utmost of his power.
 He says:
 s'By the deplorable facts related summar- fly and with pain, and by the sad cotempo- rary events in Italy, everybody can easily see and divine to what great perils this Apostolic See is exposed, and how it is the mark of the most bitter threats of rebellion, the hatred of unbeievers, and the anger of the enemies of Christ's cross.
 On every side are continually heard fren- zied voices, which find an echo in our des- perate enemies, declaring that this city of Rome must share in this unhappy Italian perturbation and rebelion-nay, must be- come It's capital. But God who IS rich in ' mercy, will, by His omnipotence, make the impious counsels and desires of our ene- mics fail. He will never permit this noble s city, so dear to us, in which out of his great and singular goodness, he has fixed the chair of St. Peter, the impregnable ba- sis of His divine faith and religion, to re- turn to that unfortunate condition so ad- mirably described by our holy predecessor |, Leo the Great, when for the first time the holy prince of the apostles entered this city, then the mistress of the world.
 ,,.. As to us, even when deprived of almost all human assistance, faithful still to our mission, and confding absolutely. in the aid of Almighty God, we. are ready to com pat without fear, even to the peril of our life, for the cause of the church divinely I conhded to us by our Lord Jesus Christ, ana need be to remoce Mither schere we
 shaA be able to exercise in the best manner our supreme apostolic mission"
 And the Pope in the midst of this .shorri-
 bie tempest" asks the prayers of the Catho.
 Dc universe, Husford Press. - - Four students from the Protestant En;s. copal training seminary at Anandale, New York, have joined the church of Rome and
 are with the Paulist Fathers in their Mon.