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The Catholic World (September) prints
an interesting article on the Italian mon
archy by an Italian writer, Signor A. Dia-
rista, who pronounces the new King to
be as different from his father as day
from night" and asserts that he is mot
ably and Enthusiastically anti-clerical," IAN
ayowed enemy of the church." In this,
the writer points out, he differs from the
tradition of the house of Savoy. which
gave a canonized saint ito the church.
Victor Emmanuel H. and his son Hum
bert L." says Signor Diarista, were both
men of strong and ineradicable attach
ment to the church, and the usurpation
of the Pope's temporal domain by the
foi mer and the continuance In possession
by the latter were, 1t has been proved by
repeated incidents, the source of contin-
ual heartburnings to them" He contin-
ues:
1.-THE [presentl King is diminutive in
stature. feeble to the point of sitting a
horse only with the greatest difficulty,
and in expression careworn and with the
aspect of one who looks out on the world
with a perpetual bitterness of feeling.
One of the Generals who had care of the
young mans education at a critical Pc
riod of his career. Count Nora di Lavri-
ano. was reputedly anything but a man
of religious sentiments. To this may pos
s;bly be attributed the fact that King
Ifumbert's son, when Crown Prince, gain
ed the reputation of being hostile to re-
l:gion. Manysviolent expressions of his
regarding the papacy were recorded In
authoritative Italian newspapers and left
without contradiction, and many are the
acts of severity related of him toward
those under his command who were de-
voted to their religious duties. At the
religious solemnization. four years ago,
| of the marriage Of the then Prince of Ma
pies, in the Church of Santa Maria degll
| Angel in Rome, the present writer had
| occasion to observe the future king IN
the role of one fulfilling religious duty.
A mass was sung, and when the sanctu-
airy bell announced, the solemn moment OF
daughter-in-law were on their knees and
! the King was bent In reverent attitude
The prince, however, seized the moment te
make gratuitously ecandalous display
of his irreligious sentiments. While the
/ Sacred Host was being elevated in The
air. he deliberately gazed around him anc
yawned with an expression Of nonchal
ance and lassitude I'he effect was cleo
! trifying and exceedingly painful to all the
| Catholics who witnessed It, Similar sen.
timents actuating man called to fill thu
royal throne in city where the success
or of Peter holds his sway can not but be
an evil augury of that mans reign. In
dependently of the thousand and one lit
| tie points where the interests of the civil
and of the spiritual powers meet, ant
where an accommodating spirit is an alb
solute requisite if an unpleasant clash i:
to be avoided, 1t is hardly to be expected
! that the new monarch will lend any CO
opera ton to the Pope's plans and effort.
/ for the remedying of the social evils. II
Italy there terrible national disorder.
crying aloud for immediate treatment an(
early cure. A prince imbued with ia
natical spirit of militarism is the las
in the world to whom one can look TO
aid in such an amergency."
Signor Diarista says that the solution o
Italy's present ills most widely desired b,
Italian educators and reformers g tn
establishment of "a federated republic oil
the principle of the United States or tn
Swiss Confederation The canton o
state of which Rome would be the chic
city would be under the supreme drec
ton of the Pope. and perhaps also a Ger
tain dominant voice would be given hin
in the decisions of the central admins
tration of the republic. Signor Diarist
concludes:
THAT the project Is not displeasing t
the Vatican has been frequently asserted
II has been affirmed that it is fully in &C
cordance with the ideas and desires o
Cardinal Rampolla, the present pontifca
4 secretary Of state. How true this may b
it is not easy to state. Possibly it 1
based on the fact that an article, allud
ing to the federated-republic project a
an adequate solution of the Roman ques
ton, was some time ago published in tn
, famous Catholic review, the Civilta Cat
tolica, and 1t is known that prior to pub
Ilication the editor, distinguished jesuit
, customarily submits to Cardinal Rampo
, Ia all articles regarding the policy of tn
! church. However this may be, several c
! the most far-seeing of disinterested tia
. ian observers hold that the actuation {
! radical change of government in italy
, logically and inevitably an occurrenc
that must soon be witnessed