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THE POPE'S ANGER.
surprise ESpressed In Rome at HIS Ac-
ton In keprOaehing Cardinal Pitra.
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ROME, June 14.-lt has been several
tunes asserted that there are in the Vatican
two policies and two currents. Que Of
them is mild and wise, full of charity and
liberation, never rushing to excess and
quite removed from fanaticism. This is
the personal policy of the Pope, of all the
Cardinals who like him, and of all the pre-
lates who have been exalted or created
by Leo NH. The other is the policy of
those who would like to see the Pope hurl-
ing communications every minute and
writing encyclic after encyclic to curse
and blame and protest.
The existence of these two currents,
| often divided, is clearly demonstrated by
the letter written not long ago by Cardinal
Pltra to Belgian paper, "A letter which,
In one OF my recent communications,
sent originally TO the San.
IL is not out of place TO recall here that
the two policies are impersonated In the
two French papers edited in Rome, the
Journal dc Rome and the 4HOnjteur de
Rone. The j0urndL is the organ of the
French and Spanish Legitmists, and has
at its head Count de BOursetty, The
-N0Rttearis the organ of the personal poll
tics of the Pope, and has at its head Mgr.
! Galimberti, an old professor of the PrOpa-
ganda and great friend of the Pope him
self. 1t is well also to recall that the
1 journal dc Rome, at the beginning of its
existence, engaged the services of Mgr.
I Gallmberti aud some other MonsignOri:
but, as their views did not coincide with
the views of the supporters Of the journal,
they were all dismissed. They then started
the NORitciW.
This explains the fights which have Oc-
! cured at different times between the two
| clerical organs, contests in which the
J0UrltGt has been constantly defeated,
| but, like the tabled Antcus. has drawn
new strength from its falls. When lately
the journal openly attacked the .uOnitcHr
| and was openly Tebuked by the OsSePGG-
tore, the JOuf11nt ate humble pie and sub
mitted, like its Spanish brother, the Sj0to
| Future, Yet, In order to advertise for
| subscribers, the Journal called for help
! to Cardinal Pitra, who wrote the letter
referred to. This letter was published by
the Journal, with another by the clever
Bishop of Anglers. 1t was a great pane
! gVric of the Journal de Rome, and long
and clever eulogy of Plus IX.'s policy.
Its adYersaries did not fail to read be-
tween the lines and to detect in the praise
| of the deceased Pope a sort Of reprOach to
the living one, whose name was not even
/ mentioned.
AS soon as the letter appeared Leo XIII.
! requested the advice of some of the most
influential Cardinals. They intimated
that it would be better to let it drop, and
after a while prevail upon Cardinal Pitra
to write another letter to assuage the i'm
preston left by the first one. For a
! while Leo XIII. acquiesced, but after
| ward, as other Cardinals began to show
and explain to the Pope the hidden sense
| of the letter, he resolved to reprOach the
Cardinal.
The occasion was ready at hand. On
| June 4, Corpus ChrisIi day, before the
| Pope went into the consistOry hall for the
public audience granted to the Italian
representatives at the eighth centennial
of st. Gregory VII, the Cardinals were
| summoned into the POpe's apartment.
There Leo XIII. gave vent to his feelings,
| protested against the letter OF Cardinal
Pitra, saving that he would never approve
his ideas, and that he was sorry to see
| such an eminent man break the discipline.
All the Cardinals were present except
| PitTa alone, who had not been invited.
This secret meeting of the Cardinals was
not, as usual, put under the POntifical
ban of secresy. The Pope seemed, there
fore, perfectly Indifferent whether it
should be known outside or not. The fact
is that, although not known by the public
| though the papers, yet it is freely circu-
| lated that the Pope has forbidden the re-
production of the letter by the other cleri-
cal papers and reviews, that he has dis
cOuraged Cardinal Pitra from writing an
other letter to the SigiO Future, which
was contemplated, and that he never
misses an opportunity to talk in depreea-
ton of the incOnsiderate step Of the Car
dinal.
This new way Of proceeding ast0nishes
everybody, because Leo Kill, who con-
/ descended to kill his faVorite pa
per, the aurora, as victim to the angry
/ Legitlmists, and who, ID order to please
them, kept out in the cold for long time
his bosom friend, Mgr. Schiaflino. the Au-
rOr0'S editor, has not hestated now to
| openly repToVe the action of a Cardinal,
one OF the most learned men of the Sacred
COLLEGE, who hOnors the purple by his
eruditi0n and his virtues; a Cardinal who
is next to the Dean OF the Sacred College;
Cardinal who belongs To a powerful or
der, the Benedictine. which has four Car
dnals in the Sacred College; Cardinal
who has all the French aristocracy to
back him.
Many fear that as Cardinal Simeoni's
letter against Parnell withdrew from ST.
Peter's pence all the money that found its
way into Dir. ParnelPs hands and turned
it TO the Irish national cause, so this &C
/ lion against Pitra will prove fatal TO the
1 French offerings, which will rather 20 to-
ward the support Of the paper than to that
1 OF the Vatican. This result is much
feared because, according TO the COM
ments Of the enemies of the Journal
Cardinal Pitra limited in his letter that a
better use could he made OF the money
offered by the faithful TO the Holy Father.
In the meantime a circular note has
this week been sent 10 all the NuncOs by
Cardinal JacOhini to inform them that the
Pope strongly disapproves Cardinal
Pitra'e letter. The eOnslstOTy which was
TO be held has been postponed, and the
new Cardinals nominations have all been
postponed.
The famous encyclical letter against
! liberalism, prepared almost a year ago.
aud lying over on tue table Of Leo XIII,
will very likely by buried, because It's ap.
pearRnce would only give new OCCASION
for contests among the clerical organs,
which prove to be unruly and riOtOus and
quite unit for discipline.