The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-04
THE POPE's LATEST UTTERANCE.
The Significant Address Of Leo XaEE TO
the DIsbanded PapaI Officers.
london Times.

ROME. June 9.-The speech made by Leo
XIII OH Friday to the officers of the disbanded
pontificaI army, headed by the Commander
in-Chief, Gen. Kanzler, has taken every one
by surprise. In it he has made direct de-
parture from the course he has hitherto fol-
lowed With the exception of the encyclical,
all his previous utterances have been mark
eddy free from illusions to the political side
of the Roman question. That in the ency-
clioal the Pope should assert the necessity OF
the temporal power to the full and free exer-
else of the spiritual jurisdiction was taken as
a matter of course; he could not do other
wise; but while in that document the Su-
preme Pontiff made his protest and declared
what it was his duty to maintain, it was sup
posed-and the POpes avoidance in his or
binary discourses of all mention OF mundane
politics was taken as confirming that suppO-
sition-that Leo XIII would, without further
emphasis, have left the question of the earthly
dominion to such further solution as the ruler
of potentates and powers might hereafter see
fit to direct.
Having said that in past years he had sew
eral times had the satisfaction OF seeing the
officers OF the pontifcal army pay their hon.
age in that same hall to his glorious prede-
cessor, Plus TX, and that now the Divine
Providence, in its inscrutable councils, had
seen fit that I'VE ourselves should have to
receive so many illustrious defenders of the
Apostolic See the Pope concluded as follows:
1--WE cannot sufficiently express in words the
vivid satisfaction we now feel; and we from
our heart thank the Lord, who, in the midst
of SO many examples of dlsloyalty, through
which in our days the hottest vows are so
easily violated, has given you strength to
preserve in your breasts so lively sentiment
| Of honor and duty as to deserve on many oc-
casions the benediction of Catholics and the
admiration and esteem of even their enemies.
We are glad also to address you to-day our
word of praise, and to encourage you to re-
main firm in your intentions, and to con-
tinue faithful to the glorious banner you
| s;pbfI rpIfN IJC
banner, inasmuch as there Is no finer or
holier cause than that of fighting for the holy
rights of the church and OF her august Head;
| there is no military glory more splendid than
that Of maintaining high the honor OF TINS
sacred flag. In defending the Papacy you de-
fend one Of the most providential OF the di-
| vine institutions; defending the Papacy, you
make yourselves the support OF that sovereign
position which the Divine Providence conced-
ed to the Head of the Church for the indie
pendence of its authority; defending the Pa,
pacy you aid in spreading its beneficial and
salutary effects throughout the world. U!
That it were the will of Heaven that rulers OF
the peoples, warned by even these, latest
events and attempts, should at last become
persuaded Of this beneficent influence OF the
church and the Papacy in the interest and
weIl-being of the nations, and giving again
to the head Of Catholcity his full lib
| ertv and independence, prepare better
destinits for the people subject to them
But. alas! The war against the church
stiII continues without mercy. To the
church that full independence Is denied to
which as a perfect society it has every right
the church, which is a Divine institution, hu,
man laws and those of the state would hold
dependent and enslaved. In such conditions:
we should profoundly adore the councils OF
God, and at the same time comfort ourselves
with the thought that God me s GI and
and that when His help seems furthest from
US it may, perchaDce, be close at hand. Tt
You, in the meantime, glorious champions
champions Of right and justice, we end by
duties never let it be that any act in YOU
lives should stain your honored career: II i
shall please God to shorten the days of trial
granting us better times, you will De found al
gpt tha church: ii He shall di spose otherwise
, Won viii have the satisfaction of having par
. ficipated with US in misfortune and OF having
shared our lots"