The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-07-05
A Weary and Disappointed

A Rome correspondent of the
Pail Mall Gazette, writing under
date OF June 2, says: "a Scotch
physician long resident in Rome,
coming out from an audience of the
Pope the othsr day, said: Never
have l seen such change in any
human being unless produced by
some physical illness. Cardinal
Pecci was a tall, erect, we'll knit
figure, his presence was imposing,
his gestures commanding, his voice
sonorous and vibrating. Leo XIII,
is bent old man, his hand shakes
as with palsy, his voice is hOarse,
and the glance of his eye uncertain
and suspicious This statement tai
lies with that of the POpe's friends
and partisans, who are sincerely
anxious about his health. He ap-
pears to be in q state of extreme
dependency all his projects for
reform are frustrated; all his
hopes of reconciliation with civil
powers abandoned. He finds him
self watched at every step. Merely
to admit Padre Curci to his pres
ence he was obliged to resort to
stratagem, and lodge him in his
own brothers apartment. What
the Ultrmontane party require OF
him is that he should follow exactly
in the steps of his predecessor,
choose to be victim and prison
er, and work ardnously in favor OF
the restoration of the temporal pow
er. This programme is opposed to
mis- views of the interest of the
Church. He saw at the time Of
Victor Emmanueis death that any
attempt to recover the lost temporal
power would be futile; every pro-
test and plea was set aside by the
various governments and the new
ambassador from France to the Wa.
tican formally announced that the
French Government, while anxious
for the spiritual liberty of thu
| Church, have enioined on him t
Danish al hope that any undertak
| ing would be sanctioned in favor o.
restoration. One would have i'm
agined that, backed mp by thesI
facts, supported by the Liberal Car
dinals and by the. single minded
chUrchmen everywhere, Leo XIII
would have been strong enough Il
hold his own. But the power o
the Jesuits is still very great. Thei
perseverance and their wide spread
influence are incalculable. Ever
reform proposed submitted to thu
congregations is rejected ; every OLE
protest and ceremony insisted on
Now the anathemas and excommu
nications against the violated right
of the Church are to be renewed
IL
the Pope, whose health has suffered
severely from confinement, worry
and that sense of "a divided duty
which to tender condolences is 9 tor
ture, has at length come to tn
point of 'msnifesting his intention
of renouncing the dignity and re
sponsibiIity of the tiara. use tn
expression as 1t was given TO me
What Leo XIII. most fears Is beinj
the cause of q schism. Hence hi
idea of abdication. His brother
Giuseppe Pecci, Professor of PhilOs
ophy Gan ex Jesuit), and warmly at
taehed to him, rather encourage
him in the idea. On one point, tn
Pope stands firm; ne will not ere
ate as Cardinals the men designaLel
by the Jesuits. Hence none win b
created at the next Consistory. 4
live and rule said the Pope tn
other day, Il shall completes the Ss
cred College in September wit
men who will be an honor to tina
college and to the Church. 81
might yet triumph if he would re
member and make his own tn
watchword of the Jesuits.A"cai ds
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