Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-10
THE POPE
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ROME. Oct. 25.-The pope has delivered a
speech on the wrongs which he considers the
church and sovereign Pontiff have suffered
and are still suffering, at the hands of tha
italian government, which has producsd a
profound sensation, for his words are "a nm
compromi sing as they are unexpected.
Temperate and apparently ccnciliatorv in
form as have been the utterances hitherto
made by Leo Kill, his veritable Opinions
and intentions have from the frat been clear
to all who were careful to understand
them, and now at last he has declared in
plain and unmlstakable terms that no com
promise, Cancellation, or modus vivendi can
ever be possible between the Vatican and the
Snirlnal unless the latter yields all that the
former asks and holds to be its right. The
occasion was the reception given by his
holiness yesterday to the civil employees,
some ooo In number, of the late political
government. who refusing to take the oath
OF allegiance to the King of Italy, have since
1870 been pensioners of the Vatican.
Replying to the address presented by
them, the Pope commenced by expressing
the consolation their presence gave him. In
these times when SO few have the courage to
fulfill their proper duties, the constancy of
those before him was not only good action.
but a splendid example of the honor of
which this age has great need. He lamented
those better days, when they, like faithful
subjects, could each in his Office render hon
orable service to their legitimate Prince, who
on his part was able to show his love and
his satisfaction for the services rendered.
But now all that YVES changed.
The designs of providence, which had as
signed to the Roman Pontiff temporal do
minion that he might enjoy secure liberty,
the true independence in the exercise of
his supreme religious power, had been frus-
trated through the series of crimes which
had been successfully consumated, to the
injury of the Apostolic See, and through
which the Pontiff had been despdiled of all
liberty and independence. The pope con-
tinued:
"True 1t is that TO hide the odious charac-
ter OF the fact they never cease from saying
we are free, because not subjected to visible
coercion, but true liberty is not that which
depends on the will of others, nor independ-
ence can that be esteemed which is subject
in all to the control of others. They also
persist In saying that freedom of speech has
been left Us, as if so many of our glorious
predecessors had not spoken freely even in
the depth of the catacombs, In the eoualor
of prisons, in the face of fierce tyrants, in
the midst of torments, and under threats Of
cruel death, and they, never
theless, were certainly neither free
| nor Independent in that state. We know
| also that they cease not from saying and
| writing that our Apostolic authority is rev.
| erenced and respected in Rome. But the
| truth of this assertion may be easily known
| by slightly bending the ear to insults which
in this same city are with impunity aimed
at US, at religion, and at the Catholic
church, of which, though unworthy, we are
| the head and supreme pastor. Only few
weeks have passed since beneath our very
| eyes they celebrated with clamorous re-
joicing the anniversary of tho violent occu-
patton of Rome, that ever sorrowful
day for Us, which obliged the
Pontif to shut himself within the
narrow circuit of these walls. Finally
they 60 about saying and repeating that
nothing interferes with our doing all that is
required for the government of the church.
| But, on the contrary, it is well known that
they place manifold obstacles in our way,
whether, for example, by depriving Us of the
valid help of the religious families who are
dispersed in the hopes of annihilating them,
or by advancing pretended rights 10 the
exequatur on the Pontiical bulls, and
to the patronage of the various
episcopal sees in Italy. What shall We say
| also regarding the occupation of churches
IN Rome, which, closed to public worship,
are destined to public uses, the property aud
dominion of the ecclesiastical authorities in
them not only being contested, bat even the
| means of defending their rights at law being
denied? What shall we say regarding the
door left open to impiety and heresy in this
city of Rome, our see and the center of
Catholicism, without its being possible
for us to oppose any sufficient and eff
ficacious remedy? And, farther, when, i'm
PEELED by love for the Roman policy, to our
special care confded, We have endeavor ed,
at sacrifices beyond our resources, to coun-
| terpoise against the Protestant schools, per-
ilous to the faith, other schools which would
give parents every security for the Christian
education of their children, we could not do
80 by employing the Poptifcal authority,
but solely by using those means which are
conceded to any private person whomsoeyer.
From our words you can fully understand,
beloved children, how difficult and
hard Is the condition in
| WHICH Inc Roman PontlH has been
placed by the revolution, and how vain are
the fiattering hopes of those who talk of the
possibility of its being accepted on our part.
Mindful always of our duties, and knowing
what is required for the good of the church
and the dignity of the Roman Pontifcate,
we shall never acquiesce in the present con
dltion of things, nor shall we cease, as we
have never yet ceased, from calling for the
| rnctIfutinn nf oil xubi nh Ir,f
has been taken from the Apostolic See. For
the rest We shall wait with confidence and
tranquility, until God, in whose hands is
our cause, natures for the church that day
on which he will render justice to her
| rights"
And with that the pope impaired his apes
| tolic benediction.
Lieut. Gen. Sheridan's Annual Report.
| CHICAGO, Nov. 9.-Gen. Sher idan's annus
report to the General of the Army sets forth