The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-03
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND's SERMON
ON DEPRIVATION OF TEN
PORAL POWER
POSITION is IITOL 1RlBLg
SACRED CITY REGARDED AS d.
YINELY APPOINTED PAPAL
SEAT OF AUTHORITY
DIsSENsIONs ARE PREDICTED
ttaIy's Comparatively Slow Progress
Attributed to FOrcibIe Usur-
patton of PapaI
Rights.

Archbishop Ireland preached in the
Cathedral yesterday morning, taking
Rome as his subject. In part he spoke
as follows:
Rome! How much the word means
to the children of the holy church! What
solemn thoughts it brings to their minds!
What deep emotions it aWakens in their
heart! To them Rome is the seat of
spiritual empire, the city of Peter. the
sacred city, truly 1.-THE city of the soul''
much more really than the poet who so
named her, ever understood her to be!
Il have Seen Rome as an Obedient
care-tal1er of a portion of Christ's king
dom. 1 have paid homage to him who
rules in Christs name over the whole
kingdom, and have rendered to him
the account Of my labors To you faith
full Catholics of the diocese of ST. Paul,
whose representative and spokesman /
was, must tell you something of what
observed and felt while 1 visited Rome.
Rome at once puts before ones eyes
the church Of Christ in her two most
vital characteristics, her cathOlicity and
her oneness The church Of Christ is
catholic; that is, universal. AS the crea-
tton of the Father Of all men, the Savior
of all, charged to speak His saving truths,
and to dispense His graces, she must
be as catholic as His love, His muni-
ficence. He said TO her first apostles,
Teach all nations And the church of
Christ Is one. A perfect social organism,
as the society, built by incarnate wisdom
cannot but be, she must be so knit
together in all her parts, so permeatCd
with the same current Of life, that sne
forms but one body with one mind and
one heart. Christ spoke always of her
as His society, His church. in the
singular number, as we speak of the
hation, the republic, indicating thereby
her oneness. AnG again He said emphat-
ically, that there be but one fold and
one Shepherd
When He visibly ruled He was the
Gead, the principle of oneness, visible
and real when He withdrew His visible
presence, He remained the real head ana
principle of oneness; but to the visible
society He gave a visible head, a visible
representative of Himself, Peter that in
Peter all apostles and all disciples OF
asposues might be one.
SCENE IN THE VATICAN.
Il stood one morning in hall of the
Vatican palace, amid an assembly, emil
nently symbolical, Of the churehs ca
tholicity and oneness. Leo was there:
the members of the church's senate,
twenty In number, We're there; bishops
and prelates of various nations were there
l had under my eyes besides the many
sons Of Italy, a Portuguese, a Spaniard,
Pole, Frenchman, an African three
MarOnite bishops from Mount Lebanon
direct descendants of the Syrian church.
to whom the first apostles ministered. II
was the cathOlicity OF the church; the
nations testified in her behalf, and ther
we all looked reverently toward Leo;
we all bowed to him, as our chieftain
and were thus one in charity OF the
heart; we all believed, as he dfd, and thus
were one, in our intellectual obedience
to Christ's teaching.
And, then, hard by was the great basi-
lica, guarding the remains of Peter and
Paul; and a little farther off, were the
catacombs where worshipped and hid
the Christians of the first three centuries
of the church's life
Il was privileged, on Leo's invitation.
to address that assembly; how easv it
was amid such inspirations, to pour cut
words of catholic faith and of ca holic
obedience! How ravishing to my soul to
feel that I was a child a bishop of the
great church, catholic, apostolic and
one.
1T IS UNBEATABLE
"a question which no visitor to
Rome, can refuse to inquire into. is: Is
the situation, created for the pope by the
presence of the Italian government in
--O-iiC, DSel4 clptc 10 nIlI |. Is II ROW Indt
1t may be considered normal II the ma
pacy? The reply which I give to my
fellow Catholics of America, is an en-
phatic negative
Leo continuously protests against the
act of spoiation, which wrested from
him the political sovereignty of Rome,
and his civil independence, against the
presence Of the Italian governm. nj
which eTpetuates that act Of spolia-
ffOn and calls In
the restitution of his temporal power
Why those protests, those demands OF
Leo? shall tell YOU his own mind as
learn it from his lips, and what | be.
heve, should be on this important point
the mind of all dutiful Catholics.
HAS DIVINE RIGHT TO ROME.
1.-The church is divinely made or.
Ganism, having from the Savior Himself
the right to exist and to work in full
1illment of His mission and, consequent.
ly, having from Him the right to the
conditions which enable her to live anc
to work in the manner that lifts hel
dignity and her mission In the manner
which IS proper and normal to the ia ks
which befal her as she moves through
ages, the teacher and queen of souls
She has, therefore, a right to the plenarv
independence of her chieftain from al
subsection to or Interference from s
human ruler.
THE church, Of course, acts and speaks
in her corporate capacity through hel
head, in whom are summed up her CHIEF
duties and her chief rights
Now, if the head of the church is tn
civil subject of an authority outside
himself, he is not free as he would be
beyond all peradventure to exercise hi:
supreme magisterurn as his own sense
of duty dictates and to govern the uni
versal church as he believes it should
be governed.
''The civil laws made for him bv the
potentate of whom he would be the sub
ject, might interfere with his liberty
The potentate would be tempted often tc
impose upon him views and acts ser.
vicable to the temporal and political in.
terests of the civil state, or the poten.
tate's own ambition. Napoleon sought
to have, the pope live in Paris in order
that / would be more easily reduced
to do lomage to France.
leo represent conscience as against
physical force. Physical force reigneG
Fupreme and commanded conscience un.
til Christ came, Christ said, "Rendel
unto Caesar the things that are Cea,
Ear's, and to God the things that are
Gods. Christ first spoke, and His church
has ever since proclaimed the high pre-
rogative OF conscience to be above al