The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-30
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INV ORLEANS SUNDAY. OCTOBER 80, 1870.
Thu Roman 0u0Gtiou. a. i.-
The Roman Question.

The following letter, from Catholic 8
PRIEST" appeared in a late number of the G.
London Times. Its matter and its diction Z
are 90 pronounced ON the side of truth, l
that ones astonishment is excited ut the v
Zymes inserting the communication
Eir-As VOC did me the honor to quote T
from n letter of mine about Italy and the g
Pope, YOU will, perhaps, allow me to make =
a further remark on the subject. You take !
for granted that which we Catholics who !
20 with the Pope and the bishops OF the
bility of the Pope coming to terms with
the spoilers of his temporal dominion. He
sannot come to terms with them, because
he is even less free in this regard than
He holds his temporal sovereignty
in trust, and its material property, there
fore. in trust; and at his election he took
the most solemn oath to defend the posses
sion of that property, if need be, with his
= life. He can only be released from that
oath by the bishops of the Catholic world
giving their votes freely and with mature
Seliberation. Now all the bishops of the |
Catholic world have spoken out on this
very subject in the varying times OF the
Pontificate, and have affirmed that the
temporal sovereignty is necessary to the
Pone as head of the Catholic Church and
vhat thew have said, their hocks every
There have subscribed to, barring, d
course, that minority winch 10 A<1ieo " 'uo
principles it possesses, and loses, therefore,
, its right to consideration. You assume,
further, that the d, OO0,O 900 Italians are
unanimous that Rome should lose It's
position of ages. In this we differ from
You widely. One. has only, to see the
list of money offerings which, week after
week. have kept pouring in from
every part of country which, You
win allow, is not very fourishing at this
moment, for the very purpose s o OF hs,plng
of the devotion of people of every class.
One has only to read the energetic letter
which an eminent Piedmontese nobleman-
Count Croft di Castig lione-published last
italians which had no wish to see Rome
change rulers, to rise and act, to be con-
yinced of this. This view, too, seems to
ma horne out by the fact that Catholic
meeting have been called in several Italian
towns. and that in one town alone-Bo-
lopna-the young men sent OFT 5O,ooOf. to
Rome when the invasion was determined
on There must also be taken into account
that influential and restless body who hate
the Monarchy as much as they do the Ia
~acv. The Riforma, one of their organs
has asserted that the Ministry would only
20 to Rome to come back the Liberal 80
fxsionc, of Naples, affirms that the thing
will be a failure when completed e: a a very
celi della Gattina-writes from Paris tt
warn his countrymen of the mistake the!
are making; and one could enumerat'
other ominous warnings besides those from
the shades of past powers Whi fa nave tr.es
Rome. ALLOW me also to say that the ex
ternal machinery of our religion must hav'
the temporal sovereignty, even though
he but the limited portion of it known
the Patrimony of St. Peter. Our ecclesias
tical congregations must have elbow room
they would get none in the Rome of IT,
Kipg, and even if they got ever SO little
that little would go with the Republic
which is slowly but surely ovef ra 1;s" 10
che numberless institutions connected wit
that machinery. Il Rome are the chic
seats of our great religious BODIES; IN Rom
are our Catholic universities, ana the ma
fional colleges connected with them. Al
these must co. for they cannot accept a
Ring one whom their religion condemns a
acting the part of Antichrist. And eve
at the best, they could put no faith IN til
promises of the government ior oyer an
over again have successive Italian Cover
ments shown that they hold good faith {
water. We have not yet forgotten I'll
seizure of the religious property In Lon
hardy, solemnly guaranteed as the como q
tion of the cession of Lombardy; or Il
poverty of the plundered religious OF ital
deprived of the annuities promised the'
Allow me to add one more remark. no 20
correspondent, can Italian" in the I'm
of to-day, says that if in no other way
were rightful master of Rome, the Cover
1ment Of King Victor Emmanuel has
least the right of conquest over it. 1t
theirs as Gibraltar is Englands, as Alsa
belongs to Frauce. Let him pardon m
the distinction is great. Gibraltar and Z
SAGE were conquered in fair fight, In zig
i'm war time. But Rome has never ma
war on the neighboring kingdom; has
mind to do SO. Her little army was pure
a defensive army. The invasion was, the
fore, purely aggressive; the capture
Rome was robbery, notsconquest. hano'
was lost far more culpably, Poland
more justly. Pray forgive me for trou5ll
YOU at such length. Believe me, the r.
and King can never exist side by side
Rome. The serving two masters has ot
tried before now, and the Archbishop
Paris has well said of the experiment
this case, "Un ROi est trop petit pour sac
a cote de la Papaute." The result must
eubiection of one or the other; can tn
he any doubt which in the end, when p
steal means have reached their llmitI
allow a fallen cause room to speak Will
damage you, sir, in the eyes of any of y
readers. / am, sir, your faithful servo
A CATHOLIC PRIEST
THE "AMERIcAN" SToyE.-Peace hath
-;otories as we'll as war; and they far more CO
0;a to every right minded person. The victories OF
American stove over all competitors equai .no