The Portland daily press., 1896-10-10
POPE LIKES THE MATCH.
1t Makes a Catholic of Princess ua,.r.
and Avoids Complications.
lErom the Pail Mall Gazatto /,

(Brom the Pail Mall Gazstte) q
From an unimpeachable source learn
that the Vatican has seen with satisfao-
tion the engagement of the Prince oe
Naples with the Monenegrin Primo ess
first, because the conversion of the lat
ter to Ga tholicism has been great per.
sonal pleasure to Leo Kill, who con.
siders it new step toward the reunion
of the Greek and Roman churches. land
also because the choice made by the
Crown Prince has saved the HOLY See
from serious EN- barrsssment and politi.
cal preocoupation. At the Vatican it
has especially been feared that the Prince
of Naples would marry one of the Prin-
cesses belonging to the most ancient and
influential reigning families IN Europe,
which alliance would, In certain way.
have soleInnly reoonfrmed the aoknowl-
edgment Of the accomplished hot of 1870.
which would have been rendered still
more emphatic by the presenc, in Rome
of the relatives of the bride. while the
Vatican In these last twenty-six years
has exercised all her infiueno, to keep
all the Catholic sovereigns put Of the
Eternal City. In 1878. when King Vic
tor Emanuel was dying, his daughter,
Maria Fla, was Queen of Portugal. AS
soon AZ she was informed of The danger
GUS condition of her father she prepared
to leave for Rome, and in difference to
the strong Catholic feeling of the ma
jority of her subjects Informed Mgr.
Nos
that while in Rome size would much like
TO be received by Pins TX. Mg. Masella,
In the innocence Of his hsart. answered
that the Pontiff would certainly be very
glad to receive her. Queen Maria Pia
came to Rome, bringing wish her tho
lnfanta Carlos, the present King of Por-
tugal. and after having accomplished her
painful duty at the deathbed other faith
er, through Count Thomnr, Portuguese
Ambassador to the Vatican, ,sked the
expected audience Of the Pope. The an
swer was refusal, and Mgr. Masella
was recalled An even more striking
example OF this intransigeance VAS when
IN 1891, the eldest daughter Il Victor
Emanuel, Princess Clotil1e. WHIP IL not
ed for her extreme and strict .piay, came
to Rome to receive the dying words of
Prince Jerome Bonaparte, the husband
who had rendered her so unhappy, She
ssAcO 0PNOA DOepO iVCclVou Wy tAo O0Au Oh
her religion, and Leo XIII. repeated the
refusal of Pius TX. The latest example
OF this exclusion of Catholic sosereigns,
not to mention that of the Emperor
Francis Joseph, who has never bsen able
to return in Rome the visit that King
Humberts paid him In Sy9s6aal fifteen
years ago, is that Of the King Of Por-
uugal, who at the beginning 1T this year
had officially announced his intention to
visit In Rome his uncle, the King Of
Italy: but, arrived 10 Paris, was obliged
to change his plans and return home as,
at the word of their master, the Pope,
the Portuguese Clericals threatened an
alliance with the an tidynastio parties to
overthrow the monarchy.
From all this it can be understood
how the Vatican saw with satisfaction
that tho marriage of the Prime of
Naples would not imply as an inevitable
consequence the infraotion of this tsadi-
tion on which the policy of the Holy See
Is principally based. 80 the Vatican has
raised no serious obstacles to the earring
out of the wishes of the Court, hut would
have liked that the religious ceremony,
instead of in Rome, should take place
In Florence, In which case Cardinal
Bausa, Archbishop of Florence, would
have been ordered to conduct the func-
tion