Omaha daily bee., 1900-12-10
DEFINES POPE'S POSITION
Archbishop Ireland Revies Question Of
Pontiff's Independence.
DepLoRes PAPACy's PRESENT SITUATION
Makes Prophecy That Its dignity ana
Liberty VIII Sometime He Given
Back - Itaiy's Government
should He out of Rome.

WASHINGTON Dec. 9.-Archbishop Ire
land in a sermon preached at st. Patricks
church In this city today, reviewed the
question OF the independence or the pope
and prophesied that at no remote DAY the
Italian people and Christendom at large
would give back to the papacy its "oh'eu
dignity and liberty" The discussion Oh
what Is known rs the Roman question was
especially significant, as the archpishop'
during the latter's recent Visit 10 hone'
talked at length with the pope Inc hreh
bishop referred to the pope as prisoner
in the Vatican, voluntary In that no phys
ical force prevents his leaving its precincts
and involuntary in that he couid not 10
beyond the Vatican without impairins Ms
dignity as pontlff and without seeming 10
accept the situation created for him by the
entrance into Rome OF the troops Oh 'he
Italian government. He said;
The Catholic church Is a diyinely created
organism, deriving tiom Christ It's misslo, ,n,
and all the rights which are are neeHen, nee sn,sshon .
rd may cyxpressed res ed' in it's supreme chief the
successor of Peter, and to him peiong ,nbor, ~
a pre-eminent manner an hesa she s'sn snossession
is needed for fuliiimcnt of its mission nrd AZ
work wiiled by Christ Hehce the pomuns nnnses >
pnance' mem 10 to temporal sovereignty.
the pope is civil suf,ees Se has ef n"t aa the
thOrity outside OF iltusc,n, Hc 10 - xny-
! The necessary freedom. The ruler or sov-
ernment would interfere, make laws I'M
| pairing his freedom Of action or st,Se ,o
| impose methods more serVlceapis 10 ~
| state than the church. The pontin worus w
| must hear no possible suspicion that lucy
| ,ty in things moral and spiritual. II fne
| sovereign pontin be the subject OIL tne k,s :
| of ItaIy what guarantee Is there Tor otur
| neoples and other rulers that Whetnou,
| through fear or favor, Italian innuenuess >
| have not penetrated into the Natlcan d nui'
| T'he peril OF national ieal,usies won.I %,
| The greater were the foreign countries ~
| The time warning with the king or Italy
A. Americans Feel.
We in American are willing indeed TO
| bearken TO the words of Peter. but II must
| be plain that they are not worhs or q toi
est OF a foreign nationality. not OF me
! church The sole effective guarantee or IN
dependence for the pontin ~ tenpona' ana, s1n
ereignty, which marks out FOR MIN sum,
| cien1 space on earth upon which ne md y
| work in fulfllment OF his mission WIN
| the dependence he needs; Inc uepsnr
| ence OF q bishop upon the ciVil ruler sevs. !
| him from union with Christluns IN @ o.h,,' y,
ton of a national church and disrupts as me
| oneness of the UNIVERSAL churcn' ,an O.ue,
| churches than the Catholic do not deinanI
| civil ind9pendence and temporal DOW.
| Tor their chieftains because no other cnurcI
than the Catholic Is worlo ,in Gmu'I ,in,yer m
saI and one, nor fulfills the Injunction o'
,Se savior: "reach all nations
The government Of Italy. he continued
sbould have remained somewhere outside
of Rome.