The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-22
POPE p POLICY.
Criticism OF His Recent Action in Italy and OF
Mgr. Irelandis Treatment.



From The Rome Correspondent ot.the Independ-
Gnce BeiG6.
A change Of opinion il noticeable among tho
Catholic visitors and even in the ranks Of tho
Bishops. In the Congresses, where plenty Of
turcid and noisy rhetoric is always TO BE- heard
II Ia still on the programme to raise an outcry
for the restoration Of the temporal power and
the liberty Of the Pope, but It is no longer re-
ceived in the way II used 10 be. The Vatican
itself Is the cause Of II. The many pilgrim
ages that have been organized for years past
have made the devout see that the Pope Is not
lying on the damp straw Of n dungeon, that lie
has a very brilliant. very well-fed court, that
he is absolutely free in his vast palace and that
he Is carefully protected outside Of II. When
the pilgrims see on the square Of st Peters
several Italian regiments placed at the Pore'1
disposal TO preserve order at the entrance 90
the ceremonials. they 20 away convinced that
the Pope. who can hold such splendid festivals
at Roms, II he Is q prisoner IS az most prisoner
Of those who surround him.
Leo Kill s first impulse IS always good.
Unluokily. he waits before putting It into eXecu-
ton; he puts on, he allows himself 70 be in
nuenced and in the end does precisely the
opposite Of what he had az first intended 10
do, Tins the party Of cinbittered diplomats
belonging to the Secretary OF State's depart
ment has managed 10 make him insert a note in
the Osserratore Romano, which. TO speak plainly,
Church merely toleyated the funeral Of King
Humhert. Now, nobody had asked the Curia
for N expls9ation on the subject and the force
same note, that Queen MaTghsrita's PRAYER
S %Snde9 9os Sy o q B RRlhTTyG Whom NJ ,R RSq rr SSSG Ffi9@,
hated: they wished TO strike the Bishop at anv
cost, Now It Is asserted Tint the prayer is rot
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Public opinion had been well inclined and
almost grateful TO the Pope for not making any
difficulties in circumstances that we're so pain
fl 10 Italy. That could not suit the irrecon-
cilables; they have impelled the Pope 10 acts
which under the circumstances we're. neither
adroit nor prudent and have made him lose
now at the Vatican and a proof Of It was given
81 r. tS;si YG time Leo p Xiii the con rSTs,sd f %iib day ,Rs
Cardinals and prelates who had come to offer
congratulations, The Pope. took occasion TO
he had been unable 10 do more nj Rome on
account Of the sad condition in which he Is
placed by the Italian Government.
put tho celebrated American Archbishop, MGR.
Ireland. In an embarrassing position, THAT
prelate., as every one knows, IS sharply At
liberal ideas: he il believed not 10 be docle
enough. and, lastly tho highest Of crimes
be- Is mot at t6 all sure /, that hot ihS re1 TS6 Of Tie
49,. 49, .. A' l'NNf -NlNl-
lected him TO a public examination bv asking
him what peoplethought to fthe Popei in America,
how he himself would speak Of him to the
Americans on his return, and. finally. what
he thought Of Rome Obliged thus 10 sneak.
the Archbishop OF 81. Paul, who could not enter
on a discussion and saw the trap laid for him,
FASTENED TO reply With the most faitcring
declarations and most decided rrotestgtiona
OF the. respect and submission OF Americans
toward. the Pope and tho Holy 500 As for
Rome, he was forced TO break a lance In favor
of tho temporal power.
The irreconcilnblrs were delighted to force
a Bishop 10 make declarations In this manner.
20 hlmiliate him, 50 10 sneak, by placing him
In the witness stand But by continuing 10
pull on the rope In this way they NAV end bv
breaking i, and In America tho cord has been
pulled On hard for some years that even tho
best dlsnosed Americans arc growing tired
Of It, That viii be seen AZ Rome, a. usual,
when II is TOO late A reaction is growing in
mems minds against this Roman tvrnnny.
carried to an absurd point, aud such that hc-
fore long a man can hold no political, social,
historical or scientific ouiniOn that has not
received the hall mark ~ a Roman CLIQUE as
ignorant as II il presumptuous and arrogant.