The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-20
WORLD OF
RELIGION.
Pope and ltaIy's New
Sovereign.
QU|R|NAL AND VATICAN
Should Missionaries Seek Martyrdom
Views of Various Chris
tian Journals.


err. would not continue the opposition to
the Vatican maintained by his father and
grandfather has been a common expecta-
ton among those who believe him to be
urder clerical influence or deficient In
power of will. These expectations. how
ever, have not thus far been realized. In
one of his earliest utterances, the King
has announced tina, ne will maintain the
traditions of his house" AS one of the
primary traditions of the house of Savoy
since 1870 has been the unity of Italy,
this pronouncement has been almost uni
versally taken TO mean that the present
status of armed tolerance between church
and state would continue. The Pope's
recent circular letter to the powers pro-
testing against the recognition of Victor
Emmanuel III. as King of Italy is now
taken as conclusive proof that peace will
not prevail, and that Leo perceives al
ready that no secret understanding or
rapprochement is possible.
Various views are taken of this long
drawn-out battle between the Roman
Pontiff and the Roman King. The New
York Evening Post august 2S) says:
THAT the Pope should renew his protest
against the Italian kingship was fully to
be expected. The logic of the situation
demanded such action, and none who
know the recent history of Italy have
] given credence to the repeated rumors OF
an entente between the Pope and the late
King. Since Victor Emmanuel II. con-
quered the papal state and Rome, in 1870,
two popes have consistently maintained
the attitude of prisoner Of the Vatican.
and 1t was not to be expected that Leo
XIII. should now sacrifice the political
advantage of such position, on senti-
mental grounds The present appeal OF
the Pope to the Catholic powers for relief
| from an intolerable position would be
pathetic indeed-for once such an appeal
would have been urbi ct orbi. while now
it is neither-except for the fact that Its
pathos is much diminished when one re
members that the Pope merely reasserts
thereby his de jure proprietorship of the
old papal state, trusting that in the iney-
table shifting of the coming years the dc
facto king may be reduced to his heredi-
tary title of King of Sardinia, and the
Pope again rule at Rome. This is a dream
but 1t is the dream of shrewd politician
The Vatican will never in our time relin-
quish its claim to Rome. To admit for g
moment that there has bsen, is or can bs
a king other than the Pope. lawfully rul
ing at Rome, would be to stultify tina
claim forever"
The New York Tribune august %
says:
The earnestness OF the Pope's appea
lis, however, equaled by its futility. 1t is
in the first place, an appeal to pitifu
minority. Time was when an appeal t
the Catholic powers meant an appeal t
! the dominant bulk of Europe. Today |
means an appeal to only one importan
power, Austria-Hungary. France, 1t !
true, is nominally Catholic. but it is no
supposable that the republic could be lie,
to take part in religious-dynastic con
troversy. Besides these, there are Spain
Portugal, Belgium, Monaco and Liechten
stein-a sorry showing as against the res
of Europe. And, in the second place, 1t i
an appeal against the logic of hereditar.
monarchism. All the European govern
ments. Catholic as well as non-Catholic
recognized Humbert as King of Italy an
accredited their ambassadors and minis
ters to him. Without repudiating the es
sential principle of their own authority
they can not possibly do otherwise tina
similarly recognize Victor Emmanuel IL
. There is no possible question Of the lie
gitimacy of his succession. If Humber
was King Of Italy, Victor Emmanuel IL
is King of Italy, and must be thus recog
, niZed. If Victor Emmanuel III. is nc
King. then Humbert was not, and tn
powers must CONFESS that for many year
they tolerated and recognized a usurper.
The New World QRom. Cath, Sept.
says:
"a title stained by fraud in it's origi
must continue to bear the stamp of orig
e nal sim; neither years nor possession
4 the spoil wrongfully usurped can effet
: to cleanse ard vindicate title to propert
: or possessions originally unjustly acquil
9 ed in violation Of public right. The col
i quest of Rome and the seizure of tn
a ipapal states consummated in 1870 has no
: and can not, receive the sanction an
concurrence of the Catholic world. In pre-
testing anew to Europe against the pr
3 tensions set forth in the royal manifest
6 Leo XIII. Is only repeating and emph
sizing the just title of the Holy See
! the possessions of which it was feloniou
q ly despoiled. The Pope can, affol
q TO await the sure vindication of
] rights which time and the pressure
q European events is~sure to establish al
restore"