Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-01
LEO LIKES AMERICA.
The Pope Believes This Country is
Much Better Than Italy.
HIS PLEA FOR TEMPORAL POWER.
Progress of the Influenza Epidemic
Throughout Europe.
SALISBURY ONE OF THE LATE VICTIMS.
ParneIrs Irish Friends Retain Full Confidence lin
Their Leader.

The Pope is pleased with the growth OF
Catholicism in America and the laws OF
this country. He makes a strong appeal
against the present policy of the Italian
Government. Premier Salisbury has Sc
we're attack of the influenza.
ROME. December 31.-The Pope, at the
Consistorv. said he was rejoiced at the
building of Catholic universities at WASH
ington. Ottawa and Fribourg. Catholicism,
he said, prospered under the favorable laws
of America, aud the equity of the men who
administered them in that country. His
ioy at this prosperity rendered the grief
Italy caused him more striking by contrast
The Italian adversaries of the church per-
sistently contend their way against it, as
made evident by the recent utterances OF
persons in public positions acquainted with
the intentions regarding the church of the
rulers of Italy. Among other recent insults
to the Church was the demonstration In
honor of Giordano Bruno. The Italian Gov
erument. seeking to detach the people from
the Church, opposed the action OF the Pope
in every way.
THE TEMPORAL POWER.
His Holiness referred to the temporal
power as necessary to the indeDendenee and
liberty ofthe Pope in the exercise of his
mission, and declared that he did not claim
the restoration of the temporal power from
human motives. 1t was his right, and he
was required to preserve it intact and trans
NIT it to his successor as one of the un-
alienable treasures OF the Christian faith.
The new italian penal code, just coming
into operation, also attacked the just liberty
Of the clergy, and hIndered their work with
new obstacles. An additional wound was
about to be inflicted upon the church by the
law regarding charitable trusts, which had
recently been enacted with unseemly haste.
This was fresh step in the endeavor to ef-
face every vestige OF religion from civil in
stitutions.
By this law all pious establishments were
to be suppressed or transformed, especially
those fer the lowering of girls without por-
tons, those regarding girls entering con-
vents, and those by which it was provided
that masses should be said for the souls OF
the dead. This law violated the wishes OF
the founders of all those charities.
NO TRUE CHARITY.
Priests were excluded from the benefits OF
charitable institutions, and women were ad-
mitted to such benefits. 1t was argued that
charity should be secular in order that If
might be more acceptable. But indeed, the
unfortunate are too proud sometimes to &C
cept Christian charity, and outside the
church there is no true charity.
Other blows have been leveled at the
church by the invasions of the civil power
forcing itself into sacred things. For time
all these things might embarrass the church,
but they can never definitely change its
course.
The RjforDld saws the violence OF the Ian.
guage used in the Pope's alIocution will moi
prevent Italy from being governed in har.
mony with the necessities of progress and
the aspirations of her people.