Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-01
BISMARCK AND TIE POPE.
Light Downing for the Roman Catholics
of Prussia.

New YORK, April 27.-A letterfrOm ROM
to the Sun gives q full transaction OF thu
official vote OF the Holy See to the Charg'
d'Aifairs OF Prussia in Rome. This is on.
of the most important official documents
that ever emanated from papal au
thority, intending to fsettle the Ions
and formidable difficulty by ending tn
Kulturkampf from the palace OF the Vati.
can of Apr,' 4. 1886. In his last note OF
the twenty4six,h Of last month the Cardi-
nal Secretary of State gave His Excellency,
the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary OF Prussia to understand
that as soon as the bill actually contem-
plated, together with the known changes,
was accepted and promulgated the Bish-
ops should be Instructed to make known
to the Prussian Government names OF the
ecclesiastics who are to be called as
parish priests to discharge the functions
OF their ministry in such parishes as are
now vacant. He noted that it was to be
hoped that as religious peace was con-
cluded, this practice OF notifying might be
continued in the future. This mOdus pre-
cendi has arisen from the consideration,
that although the contemplated bill with
it's last amendments does not contain any
fundamental notifications OF importance,
which are willingly acknowledged, it cannot.
nevertheless, be admitted that religious
peace has been completely restored, so
long as other dispositions OF the preceding
legislation, Of which no mention is
made in the bill as at present
drafted. are allowed to remain.
For it is thought..this reason. that notify
ing the Government about the parish bish-
oprics actually vacant was an i ,portant
advance and that by such progressive &C.
cord, We were preparing the ground for
complete religious peace. Thereby the
permanent authorization of these notiica.
tions is placed o. q level correspondent.
with that condition OF perfect order which
the Holy See desires to see established as
as possible. Catholics on their side
would not see with pleasure the Holy
SEE granting such permanent author
ization before they are given to enjoy
the benefit OF definite religious peace.
Hence great reliance is placed on the con-
derived from the very nature of
the matter in question, n which found
their expression in the preceding documents
of the Holy See. Meanwhile it has been as
certained from various sources, especially
from the declaration of his Excellency
Prince Bismarck. that the projected bill
with its last amendment would find great
difficulty in being adopted by the majority
in Parliament if the Holy See did not from
GliC pICoCut tlIuc, dut1OIIZ6 UU6. UCtmdQGlC
notification. The Holy Father is impressed
by the gravity of this painful situation and
would propose to the PIussian govern
ment as a means of diminishing the diff
Guilty on both sides to complete the present
bill by revising the former dispositions not
mentioned in this bill SO as to offer a
ground for hope for a complete restoration
Of religious peace. The realization OF this
proposal would entirely satisfy the Holy
Father and would be received by the Cath
olics with so sincere a Joy that his holiness
could from thism moment concede a perma-
nent notification. Ii nevertheless under
existing circumstances a revision OF
the May laws cannot be accom-
plished in the manner aforesaid as
soon as the Secretary of State has received
assurance that this revision shall be under
taken in the very near future, the Holy See
will grant q permanent notification in the
sense OF the answer given in the note OF
March 26, to the third QUESTION asked by
the Prussian legation in it's nota OF the
date. Az to this third question the
Holy See intends to leave the Government
free, to fully explain to the Diocesan
authorities the motives alleged for exclud-
ing the persons proposed. When the Gov
eminent believes a definitive nomination
OF such persons to positions to lie irrecon-
WITH puDllc order because OF some
fact known to the Government and by
it proved to be serious. The Russian Gov
eminent will perceive in these last pro-
posals a new proof of the continual anxiety
of the Holy Father to obtain religious
peace as well as OF his endeavor to remove
all obstacles to the examination of the
means by which 8 ,ch peace may be arrived
The Secretary of State has the hOnor
to you noble sir of highest co .%sideration.
CARDINAL JACoBINI.
Nearly all the parishes in Prussia repre-
a Catholic population OF nearly
10, OOO, 900 have been deprived OF ali regu-
lar pastoral Illustrations since the real
beginning VI Bismarck's Kulturkampf in
It has been a long and disastrous
struggle and now the Holy Father is willing
to make great concessions to the Govern
for the purpose OF restoring to the
Prussian Catholics their bishops and Paro-
chial clergy.