The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-18
Troubles of the Pope, the Jesuits and the
Church-Their Best Remedy.

the Father of the Faithful? Are his troubles
never to cease? Is he to be condemned to
witness all his life the ingratitude and hostility
of Catholic princes and peoples? He cannot
saw with the Psalmist, "Why do the heather
rage and the people imagine vain thing!
because in his case the heather are the very
nations who have been for countless ages
reposng in the very sunshine and glory of
Christian truth and Catholic beatitude. But
monrnfully and truthfully he may exclaim in
the further words of the psalm:-"The kings
of the earth set themselves, and the rulers
take counsel together against the Lord and
against his anointed, saying, Let US break
their bands asunder, and cast away their cords
from us"
That is the very experience that the Pope
has been having ever since he succeeded to
the inheritance of the Fisherman. First, that
red-shirted Garibaldi could find no better en-
ployment than to stir up the ungrateful popu-
lace Of Rome to declare in favor of a republic
and to compel its rightful ruler to seek personal
safety in the walls of Civita Vecchia and resto-
ration to the Vatican from the artillery of
French army. Then after some years the
people of Italy, under the lead of their warrior
king, must set TO work to break up the happily
existing order of things and drive away the
Austrian and Bourbon rulers and break up the
little principalities and powers that were so
friendly to the Church, and even wrest from the
benign sway of the Legates some of the Papal
provinces, and undertake to form, out of these
hitherto disjointed portions, a single unitary
government, based upon the heretical notions
of civil and religious freedom, popular suffrage
and public school education. And ''the most
unkindest cut of ALL was that in these highly
revolutionary and reprehensible proceedings
they were aided by the same pious prince that
had restored Rome to the Holy Father and had
earned for himself the grateful title of 6 Eldest
Son of the Church"
And, as if all this was not enough to rend
the tender heart of his Holiness, royal con-
spiracies must be entered into for the purpose
of destroying the temporal power of the
Popes and depriving them of their inheritance
in the Eternal City. Fortunate may Pho Mono
consider himself if they allow him to end his
pontiicate in the Vatican, and even then he
lives in the assurance, stipulated by treaty,
that he is the last of the successors Of st.
Peter who can be enthroned there.
But though Italy and France thus proved
renegade, there were two other friendly Catho-
lie Powers on whose devotion to obsolete
principles Of policy and government he might
firmly rely. Austria and Spain were cham
pions of the holy mother Church and believed
thoroughly in the device inscribed on it's
banner, GAS it was in the beginning, is now
and ever shall be-" Alas! how uncertain all
human calculations, even when backed by
dogmatic infallibility Austria tears up the
Concordat, allows her children to be educated
and her young men and women to be married
without the control or sanction Of the clergy;
and Spain, the birthplace Of Loyola and the
land where the Inquisition flourished longest
and hottest Otis human burnt offerings being
reported at thirty-two thousand), joins the
prosecutors of the Church, disbands the Jesuits
and confiscates the property of that religious
order
Need the Church wait for any further proof
of hostility on the part of its sons, eldest and
youngest? Can Pho Mono reasonably expect
any good from that Machavelian Emperor of
the French; from that headstrong Italian son
of Mars, who laughs at anathemas and excom-
munications; from that imperial Austrian who
had not the courage to stand up against his
heretical Prime Minister, Won Beust or from
the Juntas, the Cortes or the Camarillas Of
revolutionized Spain? Clearly not 1t is idle
to waste further time or prayers upon them.
In worldly phrase, they are past praying for.
The measure of their iniquities is full. They
will not hear the Church; therefore let them
be anathema-maranatha. That psalm of
David from which we have already made two
quotations, and which appears to be prophet
cally applicable to the case, suggests the
course which the Pope and the Church ought
to take, in these words 81 shall give thee
the heather for thine inheritance and the utter
most parts of the earth for thy possession
Who are the heather? Clearly those unfor-
tunate Protestant peoples who follow the teach
ings of Luther and Calvin and the other lights
of the Reformation, but who somehow seem to
be recently cropping about considerably in the
dark and to be veering around to the source
of light in all matters spiritual. The utter
most parts of the earth" mean, of course, that
new world which David with all his geo
graphical knowledge, knew nothing about,
but which countryman Of the Pope's and a
pous son Of the Church discovered hereabouts
some four centuries ago. We doubt whether
DIR. Cumming or Bishop Snow can make
clearer application of prophecy than this.
The heather are prepared for the Pope's ad-
vent. II he go TO the British isles he will find
a welcome among the ecclesiastical dgnitaries
of the Established Church and will have an
easy work in bringing all the stray sheep