The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-15
THE CIRCULAR OF THE ITALIAN COY.
ERNMENT UPON THE ALLOCUTION.

Ia loving circular 10 the law CHceFe, Proof
(, rators General of the Crown, with referer.
D. :, to the magnificent Allocution of the Hol
Father which we publish in full on one ,
our inside pages:
ROME, March Itch, 1877.
Instructions have been requested b
several ffices of the Public Ministry In or
der to know whether proceedings were t
be taken, for offenses of the Press, agains
, the newspapers reproducing the last Allo
cution of the Pope, in Rome, on the 18th o
. this month.
3 There is no doubt but that all Italian
who love their country, it's internal peace
and its unity and grandeur IN face of Other
countries of the world, will read with bit
terness OF mind tho language, excessive and
violent beyond the common, which this
document employs against the Kingdom OF
Italy, it's laws and institutions, and thera-
fore also against the august Sovereign who
reigns over it 10y the will of tie nation,
just as If the State were not one .shich was
iegitinately constituted and ackno wled = ed
and respected by all other Governments
with which IL lives upon the most reg ular
| and friendly international relations.
The AllocutiOn inveighs vebemently
against the will of the Italian people, ex
pressed by the suffrage of solemn plebiscites
and against the national sovereignty,
which it does not shrink from styling a
tons and legitimate powers of tue State,
ana against the most important Tvs and
reforms which were approved by the con
cordant authorities of both branches of the
Legislature and were sanctioned by the
KING.
With inGratitude for the generous conces-
slons oil prerogatives and franchises, which
have no parallel in other States, decreeG
by h!ng and Parliament to assure the full
independence of the exercise of the spirit
ual power of the Srpreme Pontitf over the
Catholic world, in this discourse it il de-
nled that such exercise of spiritual power
Is truly free and independent in Rome. on
the so'e ground that independence must
consist IN exercising, in uame of religion,
authority ana domination In political mat
tiers, and in the power of judging aud con-
demning the laws ard civil institutions of
States, diesuading in such a way the people
from giving to then obedience and no.
mage.
There is announced in it without dis
guise the persistant purpose, which also ia
OF poltleat character, to profit by all fa-
Vorabie occasions for unmaking, if posi-
be, the new Italian Kingdom, and for re-
covering for the Papacy the fallen tempo
raj power, albeit that power ia recognized
by the Italian nation to be iucom oati BILE
with its liberty and prosperity, And despite
the concurrent sanction and recognition of
all other States. The maxim is also in
culcated, although it is falsitied by noto-
rlous evidence aud by the experience of the
last seven years, that the Pope rpust be
either the sovereign of Rome, or else can
not be other than prisoner there. Nor,
lastly, ls there wanting the making fer
vent appeal to all the Bishops of the world,
an appeal which shuts the heart against
sentiments of tilial piety towards the
their power to excite foreign Governments |
against Italy and the Government
Certainly there is not in Europe or the |
world any Government which corld tole- |
rate such an injury and such an open in
citement of the people to cease to Weld |
loyalty and respect to the existing political
order AID to the laws of the country, with |
risk OF exciting in their midst civil agita-
tions and discords
TIE personal inviolability of the Pontiff !
oelng respected in order to demonstrate |
how serupulous!y, at cost of all sacrifices
and under the very gravest coptipoencies
We observe the Guarantees accorded BY the
law of May ID 1871, for the absolute indie.
pendence of the Head of the Church, ' ct it
cannot be doubted but that the reproduc-
ton by others, through the Press or other
wise, of similar provocatiors and wishes for
destruction of the State, and the repetition
OF sucp manifest outraRes against the laws
ana 1nstltutlons, may authorize tie aeents
OF the Pablo Ministry not to let such deeds
pass with lmpunity, but to put in force
ASoAnsI C'o SullVy Che penal action of tho
laws and of the relative instructions given
by my predecessor in his circular of Fe5ru-
ary IS, 1875, in which he also declared that
the very large guarantees sanctioned re-
garding the Holy See are not to be extend
ed, to the damage of the State, beyond
their legal limits, and that the inviola6ilitv
of the Supreme Pontiff for his speeches.
they may be, and the liberty
which is given to him to cause the acts of
bis spiritual ministry to be affixed t. the
gates of the Basiicas and the churches of ,
Rome, do not exclude the responsibility of s
those who reproduce by the Press, or other I
wise disseminate, such acts when they con-
tain otfeuces against the institutions and
laws of the State ;
Nevertheless, the present Ministry, mas t
much as it is strong il it's faith in the unity !
'nd liberty of the &C untry, and in it's vigil s
ance against the Vaccinations of the +
clerical party, deems this fitting occasion q
or giving to the world a solemn proof of f
ne consciousness which the Italian Govern h
nent entertSins of its own strength and t
ilgnlty, and of it's sentiments of Unlimited | |,
confidence in the country, and of long suf- d
etlng liberation, pushed beyond all mag v
Deu BOUNDS, towards him vUho |.