The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-04-05
correspondence Chicago Tribune.


pacy's glories the quirinal journals pre-.
dicted fizzle.
Peters pence are falling off" they
said; the jubilees follow too closely
ON one another religious loyalty is
growing weary. And, ah{ve all, the
pocy Of Cardinal Rampolla has re-
ceived such mortal gIows that it will
check the coming and going between
the mortal capital of Christendom and
the provinces"
I'm spite of such prophecies the papal
jubilee is flooded with light from all
sides There is no need of describing
the enthusiasm Of Catholics: ii is great,
general and resistless.
Nevertheless, the factious did try to
make trouble and confusion. Refract-
oIy groups of all kinds giving a wrong
construction to Rome's political and So
cial institutions, tried to turn the late
events into source of warfare between
the papal office and the person of Leo
Kill 1t was useless.
There may be discord in the public
domain. but when the great bell of St.
Peters rings over the world all dis
-sensions cease; all superhuman chival-
~ starts in a body and hastens to the
sacred mount. Never did the papacy
shine upon the world with such splen-
dor, it has gained an ascendancy which
cannot be checked. Dogmatic and hier-
archal unity has produced moral unity
and general affection, 1t is an inStitu-
ton, as Victor Hugo says placed in
the center of all like a sonorOus echo"
OBEDIENCE SAVES CATHOLICISM.
Intellectual obedience has saved Cath
olicism from breaking into pieces; the
dogmas and institutions have stood
erect under the protection of this ir-
removable magistracy. 1t is perennial,
immutable continuity that assures not
only the Immortality of the church, but
constant progress as well, the advance
toward the future evolution in the same
direction in "eodern sensi ct in eodern
doCmatic." Tradition and progress.
the two forces of every normal ciVili-
datiOn. are combined and brought to-
gether so well in Catholicism that the
church keeps holding the sacred torch,
which the generations, as they fly by,
pass on from hand to hand.
LEO ADDS EXPANSION TO UNITY.
The administrative concentration.
completed and welded together under
Plus IX, has broadened the social zone
of the papacy. To the power of unity
Leo Mi has added the force of eX-
pansion. The two organisms in the
service of the moral power and of a
religious idea will increase still more
the sphere and the spirit of conquest
of the papacy.
Such is the historical result of the
last two pontifcates. and so Leo XIII
enjoys at a miraculously great age the
marvels which God has sown during
his reign. If some conservatives are
still unable to perceive the opportune
greatness of the Roman policies their
hesitation is neither concerning the de-
gree Of obedience nor the absence of
security it is based on two phenom-
cna of eternal psychology. the difficulty
of grasping the spirit of new period.
which involves the giving up of old
methods of work. The difference in
points Of view has had no harmful eff
feet on the mass of devotion; it has
simply brought about more clearly the
might and sovereignty of the results
That have been attained, In the next
pontificate the policies which are still
resisted here and there viii become the
only policy, the sole method of work,
The general strategy.
WORLD JOINS IN JUBILEE.
on the part of the states of the world
he jubilee Of 1902 has the same brill
ancy as that of 1888 That was like a
"a ItAAlA- AlC III ~ JuDltNC. Ailcil VI 4oNn.
crowned a work of Incompatible gran
deur, the amphictyonic negotiations
Nith the powers. Leo XIII had made
peace in the high places.
England sought Rome's friendship,
and General Simmons had just left the
vatican after putting through a deli
cate political mission. President ClaVe-
land thanked the pope for his attitude
II unification in the United States. The
French republic was checking the Kul-
turkampf movement. Finally, to be
brief, the pope had just forced peace |
upon Germany, and had acted as arbi-
traitor in the matter Of the Carolina |
islands. About the vatican. above St. |
Peters. there was a light. a flame of !
ap7thesis which history, men thought, |
would not repeat.
POWER AND INFLUENCE PERMA-
NENT.
Now the course of the present jubilee |
shows that the situation. then believed |
extraordinary and transitory, had be- |
come permanent. Nevertheless the So |
rallied "Ralliement" policy-that is to !!
say. the policy Of adhesion to the re-
public the endeavor to re-esta blish "a |
iioal unity i'm France, and consequently |
to make the country strong and pros !
rous-disturbed the rivals of the !
French action. Was not the pope step !
ing out of his proper place? Had he
ight to choose among states? Could |
r intervene in strictly political les
ions i'm behalf of country? In sew |
t~al countries, as is well known, gov
Cnment and press found fault with the
particular friendship" which Leo XIII
VAS said to profess for France. In
spite OF conflicts and mutterings the
states now show the pope eual atten-
LION.
The results obtained are permanent
results The ascendency which the gen
JUS Of Leo XIII has acquired is not a
glorious episode due to tn authorftye
cf great mind; ii is regular, normal
permanent condition. In the prence of
Tie uapal policy in France men have
st last seen that Leo XIII was simply
performing his natural duty. re-estab-
fishing peace and harmony. as he had
done IN Spain, in Prussia. in Russia, in
switzerland. and elsewhere. What was
changing was not the essence of his
lenefcent intervention: it was only the
manner and form.
AS TO PUBLIC OPINION.
There remained public opinion. Mems
minds in 1883 had favored and FOL
lowed the action of the states Leo
Nil seemed SO great, his ministry SOL
81 sacious his actions so conciliating
ana kind that the whole press, even he
organs Of the Quirinal, Wed in eXaltinG
the glories Of the pentiflcate. Today the
situation is somewhat changed. The r
los Won Rom movement. the DreY-
ius affair. the aggressiveness of anti
e erical clements, the almost universal
WAT against the religious orders nave
changed the atmosphere. In France
particularly the policy of adhesion and
The Catholic Socialist movement have
alarmed the anti-clericals.
Tt is the papacy's ideas of govern
nent. therefore, that first brought on
hl t,n,r. nttnclg Raorl.af a HE Incidents