The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-05-07

1 Mucous
barDarism in her center, although such a
thing was unknown to the Europe of
Bonifaco VIII, nay, Innocent III and
Gregory VII, before whom kings trem-
bled and laid down their crowns! Even
the 1ndecencics once put in the mouth Of
that bad man, Philip the Fair, against
| that not very good man, Boniface VIII
| have faded out OF history. Tho three
| days waiting in the snow Of the Emperor
| Henry has, in the light of closer re-
| search, turned into a three days expect
| ancy-doubtless sufficiently anNious-in
warm apartments, of prince who hal
simply thrown the symbolic sackcoth
over the dress of his rank The crown
OF Barbarossa, struck off his head by The
| disdainful foot Of Alexander III rs the
| emperor stopped to kiss it, has followed
Pope Joan to the land Of fable. All
| through the middle ages, says Dean Mil
man, tho stcrnest Popcs, in their stern
est sentences, were careful not to depart
from tho language of Christian compass
sion and hope This, he says, though
| more or less pcrfunctory, was far from
being hypocritical or Ineffective And
after the traditions Of centuries had fixed
| this style immovNbly for the Papacy we
arc told, to be sure, only by I.nnsings
incredible ignorance and boundlcss male
violence, that a Pope in our day. when
| tho most anxious courtesy has penetrated
every form OF public intercourse, sudden
~ broke out into such unmeasurcd vile
| ness of abuse that even his own Italian,
which is sufficiently expressive of such
things, did not suffice, but VIC must turn
| Lawrence Stcrnes nastincss to account!
MI Lansing, too, has undertaken to turn
some OF tho most uncomfortable words
| of the horrible thing into Latin, and
need not say has broken down ridiculous
| ly III the attempt.
1t is true wo can understand the use of
! harsh formulas that have become official.
The present Pope, the most courteous of
| men, has once or twice used language
which would have been intolerablc to us
| as PrOtcstants were we not willing to sun
pose that IT expresses II Curialistic styio
| fixed In tho cmbittcrcd controversies of
the reformation. Queen Victoria assur-
! cdly does not regard Cardinal Vaughan as
| u supcrstitious idolntcr yet at her coro-
| nation she was mado to sign II document
declaring transubstantiation and the Mass
"snpcrstitious and idola,rous" No
tnf fl,f,l; "a
that she is not permitted to choose tho
form in which she shall profess her
| Professionalism. Her son, should he sur
(; vivc her, will sign the same formula and
will NOT lose a single Catholic friend
! thereby. Every Presbyterian minister
asserting to the Confession of Faith has
to take into tho bargain the declaration
that the Pope is antichris and all "Pap-
lists" idOlntcrs, although he is perfectly
free to affirm the ncxt moment that he
| believes neither the one nor the other.
1t Is true he is only made to say that the
confession contains the system of doe
trinc revealed in the Scripture. II may
also contain II great many things not re-
vcalcd in the Scripture But Mr. Ian
sing gives us something utterly different
! The style of Christian love and COM
passion is ns fixed In the Papal sentences
as an ordinance of nature. The Pope
might about as well undertake to contra
vcno the law of gravity as to turn aside
! from II. Yet precisely this miracle OF
/ evil is supposed to have been wrought
by Goivnnnl Mnstai- Fcrrctti Of all men
and in this age Of all ages.
Even the famous accommodation nr-
tually, suppose the greater exconmuHi-
cation-lalnchcd by Plus VII against the
elder Napoleon did not name the emperor
| have never cllnnccd to see the bull, but
my historical sources mention It ns cX-
communicating IOnarartc, Enthusiastically
indeed, but infcrcntialy. Setting aside
tho petty duke of Parma, of whose case
| know little, no European sovereign has
been accommodated by name since
Queen Elizabeth, more than three hun
drcd years ago. Plus V, who Illuminated
the bull, was not, as Mr. Lansing will
have IT., "thc fcrocious Glislicri" for
"fcrncious" implies Il different style %
| character. Yet he WAS unqucstiOnahly
| the intcnscst pcrsccutor of Professionalism
/ that has existed. Moreover, not content
with accommodating the queen, he In
sisted ON exercising the now antiquatch
mcdiacval prcrogativc of dcpOsing her
All this gave great discomfort to his Sic
ccssor of the next century, Urban Will
Urban, while allowing that Pope Ghislcr:
UO use tho Italian idionD meant ex-
cellcntly, thought the old mans look had
| been fixed too much on the past and
that he was not sufficiently aware that
:. different age had opened. AS Plus TX
has remarked, the dcpOsing Of kings is
not an Inherent attribute of the Paplcy
but grew naturally out of the Popn's
mcdiacval position as supreme nrbiter of
| ChriStnndOm, at u time when church and
| state were not so much united as in
| tiisiingiisllaby intcriuscd It, therefore,
remarks Plus, naturally faded away un-
dor a different system of public law, and
he who should now talk of rcvving 1t