The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-02-24
STAR AND CATHOLIC HEssEREER FEBRUARY a. 1873

Ypeled to counsel mOder alton.
Continuing in his projected course, We
end the new Pontif engaged In reforming
the financial system of the Government
on couraging the development of all re
sources of the country, organizing manu-
3factures and Industries of every descrip
3tion, opening libraries and reading room,
I for mechanics and the poorer classes, anG
Establishing places of refuge for the home
Hess poor.
Under his paternal rule, race distiuc.
tions were completely obliterated. The
aJews, who had heretofore been restricted
! in their movements and the exercise OF
3their callings to the most miserable quar-
I ter of the City of Rome-the Ghetto
were the greatest sufferers from the fright
4 ful inundation which occurred in the fall
! of 1916; but the Holy Father at once pro-
vided for the reparation of all their Losses
Temporary homes, food and clothing, were
I'm m ediately secured, and subsequently
full compensation from the public treasury
was made to the sufferers the Ghetto's
walls we're torn down, and all laws re
stricting the jews to any particular Sec
ton of the city repealed. For this exhi-
btion of especial sympathy the gratitude
of the jews was full and sincere q re
Election of which sentiment may perhaps
be observable in this celebration to day.
Persevering in his purposed reforms and
lin the execution of his enlightened and
liberal ideas, Plus X. was accorded the
lsympathy of the English, French. Rus
sian, PIussian, Belgian and Austrian Gov
iernments. TIE renown of this admins
tration had even crossed the broad Allan
tic and Louisiana, through the voice of
her Legislature, sent greetings of applause.
On the l6:h of March, 1s45, the follow
ling joint resolution Of the Senate and
House of Representatives Of Louisiana,
was signed by Governor johnson, and a
copy forwarded to the Supreme Pontiff:
1--WE publish the resolutions OF the inside Of
to.dsys MOANING STAR
At the same time q large and enthusias
tic meeting of the most prominent citizens
was held In the city of New York, over
which American Protestants presided !;
the Holy Pontiff were warmly received, I,
land resolutions of sympathy and admira-
|tion for the noble efforts of the Head Of the
lChurch to unite religion with true liberty /,
were unanimously adopted.
And now, after the lapse of so many
years, after the further test of career sol
full of trials, we find the same general en-
|of his obsequies.
1 have spoken so far of Plus TX. az a
Civic ruler, and have confined myself to|
but few of the numerous acts of his reign
which have made his name glorious.
But, what shall /, as Catholic, present.
great achievements of the SANITY Dead
lin his character of Vicar of Christi Shall
II aak you to behold him, the chief Pastor !,
lin the exercise of the duties of the most
humble priest, or as he holds spell bound
ithe audience assembled in the Basilica of
Sapto Andrea della Vale, or ms he presides
over the deliberations of the Vatican coun |
lcil.
While the successor of St. Peter did not
neglect the temporal affairs of the Church,
he declared in the most solemn manner
that all his thoughts, cares and endeavors
Jas Roman Pontiff, aimed at enlarging con
Atinually the Kingdom of Christ, and not at
defending the boundaries of the temporal
jprincipality which Providence had bestow-
ed on the Holy See, solely for the dignity
and free exercise of its supreme apostleship.
These endeavors have been most signally
blessed, for again do we find the Hierarchy
Established in England, Belgium, Bavaria
and virtually in Scotland and in our owp
country we find the Church raisedIfrom it's
missionary condition to the rank enjoyed
by the oldest churches Of Europe.
And now q word as to that temporal
power which. wrested though it has been
from the Chair of ST. Peter, must and shall
yet be restored. The Catholic world must
see to to it that this sovereignty is replaced
where it rightfully belongs. OF the neces-
lsity of this re establishment of the tempo
Iral power, let me cite from the eloquent
protest of Donoso- Cortez made in the
Tsp snish Chambers.
ut is perfectly true that the spiritual Of the
Papacy its principal power the temporal ia but
hccessory but that acceesory Is that 10 ndispensa
pc. The C1th1o world has right to insist upon 4!
independent The Catholic world cannot know with
Certainty as 1t needs must know If that really
nee and indePeodent, unless It be soveIegn For he
Hence It is that the question OF soyerei gnty whieh
everywhere else 10 q political question, in homo 10 q
relig g1ous q aestiOu-
Constituent assemblies may rightfully exist ese
where At Rome they cannot at Rome there can be mol
s,itnted power Neither Rome herself nor the rontf
belong to the Catholic world The Catholic word hssi
in the Pope the lawful thereof
order his being free and independent and tie PepeI
may strip hiuSe of thiS soveIeiKnty ihs indepen
dence.
And not unlike these are the words of Lord
Landsdowne delivered in the Eugiish
House of Lords or the 2lst OF July, l849,
during the debate on the French expedI
ton to Rome
"The condition OF the Pope's sovereign I
ty," said he, "is especially remarkable ID
this, that, SO far as his temporal power is
concerned, he is only sovereign of the
fourth or fifth order. In his spiritual