Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
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ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.I
PHILADELPHIA. September 19.-Arch
bishop Ryan's pastoral on the Bruno afail
will be read in all the Catholic churches o.
the archdiocese on next Sunday. 1t will
direct that special services similar to those
ordered by Archbishop Corrigan, in New
York, be held in this archdiocese on Sep.
tember % and 80. A collection for the
Pope will also be taken up in all churches
on Sunday, the 29th inst. After reviewing
the story of the erection of the monument in
Rome to Bruno, and giving special sketch
of the apostate's life, the Archbishop will
say in his PASTORAL:
1--WE do not attempt TO justify his punish
ment; but we point to these facts to show
that the insulting ceremony was not an
honest tribute to pre-eminent genius or in
dustrious talent, but wretched expression
of wounded envy at
THE MAGNIFICENT TRIBUTE
paid to the Roman Pontiff by the whole
world, Catholic, Protestant Mohammedan
and Pagan on the occasion of the golden
jubilee of his priesthood. We do not be-
ieve that in his heart the King of Italy
sympathized with the demonstration, be-
cause the spirit of the men who bowed their
heads in veneration of Giordano Bruno is
really as anti-royal as it is anti-papal. But
the King is powerless on such occasions
And it may be asked if powerless to defend
the royal dignity, how could he defend the
so-called guarantees offered by his prede-
cessor to preserve the personal and official
liberty of the Roman Pcntif.
ave cannot help thinking that it does not
become mighty organization of over 2O0,-
900 of people to look on quietly to be-
hold their supreme pastor on earth insulted
in his capital and restrained in the exercise
OF his most important functions, and say or
do nothing. 1t is not a question of mere
temporal power, but OF
SPIRITUAL INDEPENDENCE
of another's temporal power. The incident
which the Pope feels so sensitively may be
repeated in some other form at any time.
The laws which condemn all who defend his
civil rights are penal, prosecuting laws en-
acted against the Pontif himself The
tendency is to greater persecution because
satanic hatred of religion itself is at the
bottom of all. This will not express itself
in aGaribaldian shout for liberty and union,
but in a quiet systematic, apparently con-
stitutional mode OF warfare.
"Now, if the Pope have tine spiritual
power to rule the church of God he should
have by implication everything essential to
the exercise of the spiritual power. If some
amount of temporal power and independence
of earthly dominion be essential to this
freedom-and many good non-Catholic
statesmen have so thought and said-then
some such independent position orght to be
possessed by the Pontif. He represents too
much
INDIRECT TEMPORAL INFLUENCE
to be subject to any King. The first Ma
poleon felt that he only needed the Pope as
a subject to be complete and permanent
master of Europe.
''The Pope's present position of neither
ruler nor subject is one which cannot be
gratifying to either himself or the King of
Italy. The latter must feel that his royal
dignity is dwarted by the presence of the
Pope-that in the shadows of st. Peters
and the Vatican the Quirinal is utterly
lost But this is not as it should
be when proper order prevails. The
power of earthly rulers is from God, as
well as the Pontiff's power. All power is
from God. whether pontifcal, royal or re-
publican, and should be respected in its
place. Hence, for Pope and King the pres
ent position is one out of harmony with
good order.
"What, then, should be done? To give
such guarantees as Victor Emmanuel offered
is clearly folly, as a single vote of the
Italian Parliament might at any time make
the Pope subject. 1t has sometimes been
advanced as
SOLUTION OF THE DIFFICULTY
that to guarantee these guarantees bv
European treaty, so that not Italy alone,
Ill ! n
might give the Pope an independent position
even stronger than he possessed before
the Garibaldians and Victor Emmanuel
robbed him of his possessions. Such
treaty might project him from any future
spoliation. However Italy has never sug-
gested such guarantee for her guarantees,
and would probably resent such suggestion
as an intrusion and an insult. Besides this
fact, we must remember how treaties in the
past have been disregarded: And how with
the governing powers of European countries
half infdel and antl-Papal, it may be
doubted whether these powers would en-
force, as they should, the guarantee rights.
FULL OF DIFFICULTY.
1.-THE subject is full of difficulty. The
solution of the great past has been that the
Pope should be an Independent ruler. 1t is
evidently his own solution. Not that he
cares to be the temporal ruler of petty
kingdom for the sake of its little tlnseled
royalty, when, as Pope, he rules the Catho-
lie world. We are sure that he would pre-
fer the pleasures of the Vatican library to
those of a royal court. In the ordinary
course of human lite he is nearing the por-
tails of eternity. But he feels now, more
than ever, that it is due to his sublime
Office 10 lift his voice in defense of the
liberty OF the head of the church of Jesus
Christ"