The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-04
The PAPAL JUBILEE

LIEU ALL. euttIeu Inc IW6uLy nth year
of his pontifioate yesterday, and celebrat-
ed the twenty-fourth anniversary Of his
coronation in the basilica of St. Peters,
in the presece of a mighty multitude and
with all the accessories of the magnid-
cent ritual Of the Latin church.
One is impressed with the enduring
quality of the Latin church and is in
clined to think that there is large meas
ure of truth in Macauley's statement
about the undiminished vigor of that sys-
tenn when the New Zealand traveller sits
on a ruined arch of London bridge and
sketches the desolation OF London. The
dream of the great medieval popes,
Gregory VII, Alexander Ill, Innocent
III. and w., and Boniface VIII, of the
theocratic rule Of the pope over all the
nations of the world, making the pontiff
head over all secular potencies, whose
permission, has not been realized. The
claim to world supremacy, secular and re-
ligious, gathered it's strength when,
through King Pepin and Charlemagne, the
pope became possessed of several prov
inces which Pepin had conquered from the
pope thus became g. secular prince and
contention for this secularity was there
after G1le procuring cause of the most
serious conflicts within the Latin COM
| munion. Submission of potencies to the
papal claim were followed by reyolts, and,
when Boniface VIII. issued his bull IMAM
| Sanctam which claimed that 1t was a con-
| dition of salvation for every human being
to submit to the Roman pontiff, the pres
| tige OF the papacy was weakened and the
sixteenth century reformation and the
birth of Professionalism obliterated the
scheme for a papal world empire which,
however, lives in a modified form in the
| demand Of TIE popes for the restoration
of the states Of the church now merged in
the kingdom of Italy. Pope Plus TX.
made a strong fight for this territory in
his closing years, but it is on record
that he stated to Count dHarcourt, the
French ambassador at Rome, that he had
given UP all hope of recovering the states
of the church, aud that he would not ac-
cept them if they we're offered to him.
| Jules Favre, in his took, Rome and the
French Republic quotes this dispatch OF
l Count d'Harcourt. This statement of the
pope was not made in a consistory, but
to the count in a private conversation. but
Plus, no doubt, spoke his real convictions
! on the subject His successor, the pres
emit pope, strongly makes the claim for
| the lost papel territory, but the decisive
| utterauce of the King of Italy, recently
| precludes the idea of such restoration by
the italian government, which has en-
phatica1ly from the very birth of che
United Italy, declared against such policy
While papal supremacy is gone in north
ern Europe; while France is checking pa
pal influence by restrictive legislation
while even in Austria the papal hold is
weakening and in Mexico and seyera
Spanish American republics the clerica,
/ influence is waning, Mexico having con-
! fscated church property and decreed re-
/ ligious liberation, while this dirninution
of papa1 influence seems to be going on
| the church of Rome is making it's largest
/ gains in the United States, where the
principle of church and state union is
positively prohibited by the constitution
and the nation jealousy guards the prin-
4 ciple.
1 In this country, there is absolute
equality Of religions, and each system
works out its own spiritual purposes
What Rome hass.iosts. in Europe she Is
j gaining in this country. Archbishop Cor