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/ lines originally lalu down DN the frencn
! anticlcricals. Through every conceiva
BILE provocation for an outburst OF
righteous Indignation the pontiff be-
haved with singular dignity. He would
have nothing TO do with the rival court
that since 1870 has been installed I'm the
Quirinal. the former palace OF the pope,
taken without shadow OF law or JUS
! tice.
In a mastery article written by Arch
bishop John Ireland OF ST. Paul. Mimi.
for the North American Review the sit
uation OF the Roman church under the
rule OF Leo XIII. has been graphically
| described. He deals with the cordi
tons as they existed about n year ago
! thus
1.-THE situation with which the pope
is now confronted Is intolerable. In
the streets OF Rome insult has been Of
fered 10 the cortege conveying TO Its
last resting place In San Lorenzo the
dead body OF Leo's predecessor. A
statue has been erected In one OF the
public squares In honor OF an excom-
municated monk whose sole merit was
that In his day be had been the enemy
Of the papacy. The head OF the munic
ipal government has been dismissed
from ONCE by ministerial decree be-
cause on an occasion when the Catho-
lie world was honoring Leo as n man
and as a pontin he dared TO send TO the
Vatican the expression OF his good will
and that OF his colleagues The chart
table institutions Of the city. iegacies
OF the Catholic charity OF ages, have
been wrested from the control OF the
church and handed over 20 the secular
authorities. Monasteries and schools
have been closed and the buildings con
hscated. By veto OF the Italian gov
eminent Leo XIII. has been forbidden
70 send an envoy 10 an international
peace congress, where be would have
been welcomed even by non-Cathoiic
sovereigns and where the pope by all
the traditions OF his see was entitled 20
be represented.
The sole solution OF the Roman
question 10 the pope's civil prtncedom.
and until this Is recovered the pope's
protest Will contfnue.
The barriers raised against the re
covery Of the pope's civil princodom
are by no means 20 insupersble a. at
first glance they may appear. Italy
took from the pope bis civil prtnccdom
Why cannot Italy b. expected To no
store TT To DO 90 would mean FOE TIA
~ peace, prosperity and glory.
The situation Is today no less intol
cradle for Italy than II 10 for the po-
pacy. The court Of the king IL 90
scured by that Of the popa Rome per
ststs In being papal. m deriving its life
and grandeur from the papacy.
Throughout the kingdom Italians are
divided. The ndherents q the popos
temporal power are legion. They are,
too, the most conservative clements Of
the population. and as they refrefn In
obedience To the pope's order from &c
tive participation In national politics
the peril daily grows that the socialis-
tic and revolutionary element In the
country may obtain control OF public
affairs"
The king OF Italy IL not the interna.
tional sovereign that Pope Leo XIII.
made himself. The popularity OF the
latter outside OF Italy was greater than
that OF Victor Emmanuel H. OF his fn-
Their. Humbert I.
The two kings wholly lacked the indi-
viduality OF Leo XIII. They never had
any ideas OF progress, never formulat-
ed any policies that would raise the
kingdom from it's poverty and its hum
BILE place In the family OF European
nations. Consider, therefore, what Leo
XIII. did for the church they trampled
upon and despoiled!
For an estimate OF the imperial sway
OF Leo XIII. and the place ne made for
the Roman pontiff In the hearts Of all
Christians we cannot do better than
to quote from Mr. Justin McCarthy's
recent biography. With entire truth he
says:
I'VE talk OF great empires-of Eng
land. with her drum taps following
each other round the earth We talk
Of Russia. OF Germany. OF France. May
| point out To my readers that the en-
pire OF papacy is greater than any OF
theseT What hold has the English SOW
ereign over Russia or over Germanyf
What hold has the German emperor
over England? What hold has the car.
except for occasional political alliances
and fantasies, over Francef What hold
has any of these powers-what hold
have all OF them combined-over the
great republic OF America? Except as
matter OF news In the daily papers.
the people OF the United States do not
care and have no need to care three
straws about what England and
France and Germany and Russia ore
doing. But the papacy has an infiu
encc everywhere. and II hns TO look
after everything.
Among the many commanding fig
urcs In Europe OF our day Leo XIII. In
one OF the most commanding. | have
seen good many great men in our
time. ! have been acquainted with
Gladstone. and have talked with BIS
marck and with Cardinal Newman.
aud | can recall TO memory the pres
once NJ Emnqror Nicholaa NJ Uuaaia