The age-herald., 1900-12-10
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 OF HIS HOLINESS Archbishop Ireland Predicts Early Return of Lost Dignity
DISCUSSED ROMAN QUESTION
This is Regarded as Especially signifi- cant, as the Archbishop During His Recent Visit Talked at
 Length With the Pope.

Washington, December g. - Archbishop Ireland, in a sermon preached at St. Pat rick's Church in this city today, reviewed. the question of the independence of the Pope, and prophecied that at no remote day the Italian people and the Christian world at large would "gfve back to the papacy its wonted dignity and liberty"
 The discussion of what is known the Roman question was especially significant, as the archbishop, during the latter's re- cent visit to Rome, talked at length with the Pope The archbishop referred to the Pope as a prisoner in the Vatican, volun- tary because no physical force prevents him from leaving its precincts, and invol- untary in that he could not go beyond the Vatican without impairing his dignity as pontiff and without seeming to accept the situation created for him by the entrance into Rome of troops of the Italian govern ment. He said:
 'The Catholic Church Is a dvinely-cre- ated organization, receiving directly it's au- thority from Christs mission and all the rights which are needed that 1t may live and work. It's life and mission are ex- pressed in it's supreme chief, the successor of Peter, and to him belong in pre-emi- nent manner all the rights inherent in the church, and whose possession is needed for the fulfllment of its mission and work as willed by Christ. Hence the pontiffs right to independence as consequence to tenn poral sovereignty"
 The archbishop said: 'If the Pope is 0 civil subject of an authority outside of himself he has not the necessary freedom. The ruler or government would interfere to make laws impairing his freedom of ac- tion or strive to impose methods more ser viceable te- the state than the church.
 ''The pontff's words must bear no pos sible suspicion that they were imposed by men who have no authority in things nor al and spiritual If the sovereign pom tiff be the subject of the King of Italy what guarantee is there for other peoples and other rulers that whether through fear or favor the Italian influences have not penetrated into the vatican and that Ital- ian interests are not to be served. The peril of national iealousies would be the greater with the foreign countries at time warning with the King of Italy. We in America, are willing indeed to hearken to the words of Peter, but it must be plain that they are not the words of a foreign ruler, whose sole purpose is the interest of a foreign nationality, not of the church. The sole guarantee of independence for the pontiff is the temporal sovereignty which marks out for him sufficient space on earth upon which he may work in the fulfillment of his mission with all the independence he needs The independence of a bishop upon the civil ruler sewers him from union with Christians in other count ias, Ghduces his church to the condition of a National church and disrupts the oneness. of the universal church. Other chureb han the and temporal power for ttl hieftains because no other church f Catholic is a world church, nor al eing at the same time a universal r fulfills the injunction of the Savit % 9Geachings to all nations"
 '"The government of Italy,' he continued, should have remained somewhere outside of Rome."