The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-05-13
THE PiPACY And THE ITALIAN REVO-
LUTIONISTS.
cLEAR rxrosrTroN BY CARDINAL MAssISc.

His Eminence, the Cardinal Archbishop
Westru inster, delivered a very able sermon
London recently on the anti Catholic positic
of the Italian Government. From the repo
in the Liverpool Catholic Times we take tn
extract:
He declared his belief that this legislato
was not the work of the Italian people;
believe it to be the work of the Italian rev,
tion, and between the Italian people and tn
Italian revolution there was q great golf tixet
Italy had had this tw o. fold sflilction-first SD
had been under the dominant influence of th
revolution If France; now she has talle
under the influence of what be must call tn
revolution in Germany. In 1896, France, will
it's revolutionary blasphemy and disorder, IN
10 1eCa, France deluged Italy and occnpis'
Rome with ite revolutionary armios. Ii de
stroyed tie old municipal government of Rom
and of the Roman cities, which mnnicipa
government was like our own; all the great
cities in the Patrmony of the Church before
| were all but au tonomous, governing themselves
as Manchester and Liverpool. Tney owed an
allegiance to their sovereign, but they govern
! ed their own internal affairs. That system
descended from the Middle Ages, was abolished
| and that evanescent and most unstable of all
| forms of government was introduced-central.
| izaton of the Code Napoleon. From that had
come, he had been assured by some of the
greatest statesmen in Rome, the perpetual dis
content of the snbjsc of the Holy See. Once
more, in 1923 man whose name Is gloritied
by the Italian revolution-the author of the
Revolution which was called Young Italy,
founded npon denial of all government ex-
cept Republican Govern ment-began that
which has been o most fdictiug career for
Italy. Kings and priests represented two
authorities The revolution of this day is di-
rected against the priestly and royal authority.
Such was the teaching of the man whose name
he would not spoak. He taught the Italians
to conspre in secret, to unite in a widespread
clandestine society which was to spread over
the whole face of Italy like netw ork, and
whose operation should have these three de-
grees First, what was called education, which
sgnitied indeed the perverson of little chill
dren in the schools, and signified also the pro-
pagation of revolutionary doctrines by the
press and other means secondly, insurrection
in all parts simultaneously lastly. n rising of
the revolution which was TO overthrow the
order of government. From The
year 1923 down to the present day it had been
spreading, and that which We at this
ment in Rome was nothing but the result of
that revolution which had been so long clan
lestinely working. If any man would study
the history of the Pontlfcate of Plus ]X. he
would see that he began the first days OF bis
by setting free every political pris- |
'ner. Giving perfect amnesty, he acted like !
; good shepherd towards his flock. The secret |
evolution thought that Plus TX might be in- |
iuced by the ambitious prospect of extending |
lis sway over Italy to take part in their move |
nept, and they tempted him as Satan tempted |
lis Master in the wilderness Plus TX. said |
10; he would rule according to the power |
which the Divine Lord gave him, but he would |
interfere with no other man, and he would |
make no war upon any one of his children.
from that moment they turned against him
md sought another who would take the lead.
de was the King of Sardinia, and from that |
lour to this there had been a conflict of three |
'owers. There had been the Church in the |
'lenitude of its spiritual authority and un-
werving in doing its duty there had been |
he Italian Monarchy, beaded by the ancient
iouse of Catholic Savoy aud there had been
16-of
hem both, At this moment the conflict was
OF more against Plus TX. tuan against Victor
.mmanuel.
What the future would be it was not for him
D predict, but he contended that the work
hey saw in Italy down to this last was not
be work of the Italian people: it was the
vork of the Italian revolution, which proclaim
d itself to he ratlonalistlc in those discussions
o which he referred the proposers and main
ainers Of the law all openly cast off the SEM
lance of religion those who opposed the law
pom political reasons openly declared them
elves to be ration nalists-that was to say, they
ii rejected belief in Christianity, What
vas not the work not the will of the |
Italian people, and the proof he would give |
vas this: The Italian people were 26 millions;
he revolution had uot possessed themselves |
# moro than TWO three millions at the |
most. There we're two aud twenty millions of |
he Italian people who remained in their o,d |
christian Catholic traditions, and had never |
their faith aud the faith of their |
sthers. Moreover, the whole electoral body |
Italy dld not exceed half u million of men.
)f the 2G millions there was not 80 much as a |
ftieth part that possessed the electoral suf |
rage. The other day he read in paper |
written with great ability and great oonfi-
lenoe that, because the Italian Government |
lad manifested a disposition in favor of the |
;hurch, the electors had turned it out and had |
'ut in power those who would express their |
will. Thsse 500 900 men did not represent the |
will of Italy; and, of these 500 900 men $50. 900
that was one half-never went TO the poll to |
eoord their vote. They were Catholics, aud |
or coneciences sake they refrained from the |
and had never vo'ed at all because |
f they were to vote they would recognize the |
aw and acknowledge the constitution aud be |
'artskers in the present state of things and |
my man they elected could not sit without |
aking an oath which bound him to the SOW
regnty which existed in Italy to the violation |
# the rights of the Church. Therefore, $50 600 |
lectOrs were the whole body of men repre-
ented IN the present Italian Parliament; and |
hey we're only hundredth part of the Italian
people. He asked if they were to accept any
'ote of that assembly as representing the will |
# the people of Italy. Even when the plebis-
lite was taken, it was in the presence of an in
'ading army, aud under O prohibition which
pound every Catholic to abstain from voting. |
t was ascertained that not more than IA 600 |
men voted at all out of a population of 200, 600 |
md of these 1000 or ) 600 were the paid Off.
IF fha H.