The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-30

| the Faithful, the Pontiff most exalted by his
labors, persecution and patience, his hope
and faith in God. We wished TO see your
Holiness, and the distance to be trav-,
ersed increased, rather than di-
minished our desire Though abandoned by
the Princes of the Earth and reduced TO pris-
on, we have not abadoned you. We have
come to proclaim before the whole world our
devotion to you, the Infalible Pastor OF
| the Church, the center OF the unity of our
faith. This is the long wishsd-for day when
we can see you and receive your blessing,
not only for ourselves, but for all those who
cannot be present, and who, at distance,
pray to God with tears for you in your
prison. They, as well as ourselves, loving
honesty and civil liberty, condemn With all
their heart the tyrannical persecution of the
church by those braggarts Of a false liberty
who are estranged from Cod ~ 81 &c srlt.
Monsignor Theard then read an address in
French, expressing the devotion of the pill
grims and all American Catholics.
a. A' % THE POPE REPLIED:
sAmid the darkness of the world, this is a
ray of flight. The enemies of the church are
numerous. but great consultations reach me
| from .ne old and new worlds, where the
true faith has been so maryelously developed
that it has been necessary to increase the
| number of dioceses- Still a great part of the
continent remains occupied by false religions
and you must fray to God to bring all back
| to the true faith" ESQ a e..rrtl
The pope afterward descended from his
throne and passed before the pilgrims, Civ
| ing them his hand to kiss. They presented
offerings to his holiness, the Rev. Mr..
Member, in the name of his black parish
toner's, presented a stick filed with
| gold coins. The pope blessed many
objects of devotion borne by the pilgrims.
| An album will shortly be transmitted to his
Holiness containing the signatures and adj
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The pilgrims have decided to visit the seven
Basilieas. On Thursday the Pope will give
| them the communion. They will afterwards
| go to Albino Frascati and Tivol. 1t is not
true that they met with hostile demonstra-
ton at Civita Vecchia.
We can understand such educated
and Unborn faith indulging itseli
in what may seem to many OF us extrav
| agances. But the kilograms nom Rome OF
/ yesterday and to-day supply more start
ling commentary on Macauley and his spec
ulations. We are informed that one hundred
| American pilgrims disembarked on Monday
a Civita Vecchia. The party consisted of a
| couple of bishops. thirty ecclesiastics and
| sixty-eight laymen. They were welcomed
cordially, as they well might be, by an Italian
bishop ard body of students. They at
tended mass at the cathedral, they partook
of breakfast at the hotel, and subsequently
they set out on their journey to Rome. The
pope received his visitors yesterday. Here
indeed, we haye the church recovering in
the New World what she has lost in the Old
in sense Macaulay never dreamed of. He
was thinking of the wild Indians she bap-
TIED in hordes, "between the plains of the
Missouri and Cape Horn" asking
them a few questions to the
grounds of their new belief. Blu
THOSE AMERICANS
who have gone to Rome represent the rac'
which has replaced the Indians-a rae
which brides itself above everything OIL
shrewdness and precision of thought, ant
! on its contempt for Anticipated prejudice
and superstitions. The Americans, as ma
; ton, are the last people in the world to &C
: cept a creed because it pleases thei
, fancy or excites their imagination-to tax
! up with old world superstitions as specific
, for anxiety. AS an eminently practical peo
pie, they are used to Judge of institutions b,
J their fruits. They have witnessed the ei
} fects of the free institutions of their owl
country. They are familiar with the sign
} of commercial and industrial prosperity il
their great cities, with the fertile farm
| and fruitful orchards of New Eng
land, with the struggles of tn
D pioneers of civilization in their bac
/, settlements, where nature is always van
o newfangled and most outrageous creed
earning, at least, the consideration of thel
neighbors by their indefatigable assidnity i
8 worldly matters. Judging of religions b
the results of their teaching, conceive tn
impression made upon these intelligen
: strangers by their landing at Civita Vecchi
and their journey TO Rome. Civita Vecch
q till the other day, was the port of the Papa
. states, and is the harhor where sea- born
Z pilgrims for the sacred sIrines have olsen
Z | barked from time immemorial. The build
: ings, erected or restored shy the munihcence
I, of successive Pontiffs, as the inscription
n bear, are slowly crumbling to decay. Tn
foul harbor is surrounded by filthy streets
!. the church were the pilgrims attende
mass was doubtless the best cared for ed
ifice in the place, but its porch is beset b
! swarms of able-bodied beggars. Beyon
!. the town the railway passes through so
!, itudes. A country which was once rich an
4 populous has been gradually given over t
: desolation. The sheep and cattle seem in 9
a miserable the stray peasants VIII
4 tend them. The rare hamlets are stricke
= with fever and poverty; the demon OF ms
: laria is in the ascendent everywhere, an
r yet the strips of fruitful market garde
/ under the walls ofthe city show how niue
q of the misery is due to misgovernmept an
= | neglect. We should be curious to comics
! these American pilgrims when they hay
: accomplished their pilgrimage. Possibl
. they may have already come to the col
. cIusion that if they desired to avoid dislllU
q sion they had better have stayed at home
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