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 1RABLg
SACRED CITY REGARDED AS d.
YINELY APPOINTED PAPAL
SEAT OF AUTHORITY
DISSENsIONS ARE PREDICTED
ftaIy'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
hearth To them Rome is the seat Of
spiritual empire, the city of Peter. the
sacred city. truly 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-taker of a portion of Christs king
dom. have paid homage to him who
rules in Christs name over the whole
kingdom, and have rendered to him
the account Of my labCTS. To you faith
ful Catholics of the diocese of st. Paul,
whose representa- tive and spokesman i
was, must tell you something of what
observed and felt while l 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-
ton 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 NUM-
hcence. 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 incaTnate wisdom
cannot but be, she must be so knit
together in all her parts, so permeatCd
with the same current OF life, that she
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
he
her oneness. AnG again He said emphat-
ically, that there be but one fold ana
one Shepherd
When He visibly ruled, He was the
Fead, 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 visfbIe
society He gave a visible head, visible
representative Of Himself, Peter, that in
Peter all apostles and all disciples OF
Apostles might be one.
SCENE IN THE VATICAN
L stood one morning in a hall of the
Vatican palace, amid an assembly, emil
nently symboical, Of the chuFch's ca
thoHctty 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
1 had under my eyes besides the many
sons Of Italy, a Portuguese, a Spaniard,
Pole, trenchman, an African, three
Maronite bishops from Mount Lebanon.
direct descendants of the Syrian church
to whom the first apostles ministered IT
was the catholicity OF the church; the
nations testified in her behalf and then
we all looked reverently toward Leo;
we all bowed to him, as our chieftain:
and We're 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 basil
lca, 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
Ct was privileged, on Leo's invitation
to address that assembly; how easv it
was, amid such inspirations to po1lr Cut
words Of catholic faith and of ca h0lic
obedience! How ravishing to NV soul to
feel that I was a child a bishop of the
great church, catholic, apostolic and
one
IT 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
Rome, bearabie to him? Is 1t now that
1t may be considered normal II the na-
pacy? The reply which I give to nv
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 government
which erpetuates that act Of spolia-
ton, and calls in most positive terms for
Ia Ion yNFl
Why those protests, those demands of
Leo? I shall tell YOU his own mind as
learn it from his lips and what. I be-
lieve, should be on this important point.
the mind Of all dutiful Catholics
HAS DIVINE RIGHT TO ROME.
THE church is a divinely made Or
Eanism, having from the Savior Himself
the right to exist and to work in full
hllment of His mission and. uonseouent-
", having from Him the right to the
conditions which enable her to live and
to work In the manner that lifts her
dignity and her mission In the manner
which is proper and normal to thu ia ks
which befau her as she moves through
ages, the teacher and queen of souls.
She has, therefore, a right to the Dlenarv
independence of her chieftain from ali
subJection to or Interference from a
human ruler.
THE church, of course. acts and speaks
IN her corporate capacity through her
head, in whom are summed up her chief
duties and her chief rights
Now, if the head of the church is tb-
civil subject of an authority outside
himself, he is not free as he would be
beyond all peradventure to exercise his
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 by the
potentate of whom he would be the sub
ject, might interfere with his liberty
The pOtentate would be tempted often TO
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 (omage to France.
Leo represent conscience as against
physical force. Physical force reigned
Hupreme and commanded conscience IN
til Christ came, Christ said, Render
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-
TogatVe OF conscience to be sbove all