The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-31
IEo KILLS ROYAL VISITORS.
rArHOLJC UTILIZATION AT PROT
ESTANT RECOGNITION.
I'll. vatican Regards king Edward's and
Kaiser Wiiheim's Attentions 10 the
Venerable Pope as . Recognition
OF Temporal sovereiEnty-Protes tant
hacking for What Catholics Cast on
Pope and Emperor Allied Again.

hacking for what Catholics CaN OF
Pope and Emperor Allied Again.
ROME May i5.--How right We are in
di.tr,stiug prophets and how deceptive.
orc human conjecturesl We have here a
striking example. Thirty years ago, just
after III. establishment Of tho German
rmnire. on the eve of the Ku!turkampf,
!, was a common thing for Catholics TO
hook on the Kaiser as an Antipope the
Protestant Antipope and on the defeat Of
France as disaster for Catholicism: all the
anti Catholics, and particularly the Italian
anti.Papists. acclaimed Herr Won Bismarck
and his two formidable creations. the
empire proclaimed at Versailles and the
"ciylhing struggle" against Rome, In
their eyes the Protestant empire OF the
Hohen2ollerns succeeded to the power and
influence Of Catholic France; it meant the
rol,caI ruin of the Papacy forever Do
the Catholics or their foes need any proof
to-day that they were both mistaken?
The 'civilzng struggle regenerated and
strengt hened German Catholicism. The
Hohenzoerns have become the best friends
OF the Catholics, once prosecuted but now
the slrest supporters of tho empire. The
empire renews before the whole world
with MEDIEVAL brilliancy the idea OF the
two powers allied and united for the good
OF the people, the Emperor and the Pope.
Al Rome the Emperor is paying formal
visit to the King OF Italy, we read in the
anti Catholic Secoto, but his presence is
only justified, 10 only apparentlyin interesting.
but really interested. when it's object is
shown 10 be a visit to the Vatican, with a
triumphal procession. with his horses and
white cuirassiers brought on from Berlin.
This visit is made by the Emperor according
10 the ceremonial demanded by the Vatican
80 as to preserve all rights and all claims
Of the Holy See.
He starts in his own carriages from Ger
man SOIL that is to say the Prussian E M
bassy to the Vatican; he allows no other
escort or protection than his personal suite
and German squadron. and after he has
talked with His Holiness. his Chancellor
has a long interview with the Holy Fathers
Minister. Were tho Emperor Francis
Joseph. the venerable dean Of Catholic
sovereigns, to come to the Vatican, he could
not behave with greater difference.
And Of all the plans that the Emperor
talked over with His Holiness which one is
FIRST announced as abou, to be put into exc
cution? The one that fits in best with the
magnificent and unforgettable address at
AK Ia Chapele. namely the inaugural Of
the new cathedral at Metz in the presence
Of the Pope and OF the Emperor, the Pope
by his legRte. the Emperor in person. seated
side by side on the same platform. And
this great symbol will rise in few days
in the provinces conquered by Germany,
which is called Protestant, from France.
which is called Catholic few cannon shot
distant from that France which ia closing
the churches after having taken Christian4
ity out Of it's schools, which is driving out
monks and nuns after having degraded
by bribery. theft and all kinds Of scandals
every political and judicial institution from
the highest down.
While In Rome and throughout Italy
the journals which are thrilled by the name
OF Garibaldi or Of Mazzini hail an obscure
French politician. an ephemeral Minister.
who. after dinner ut the Villa Medici has
declared that Rome is intangible the
same journals spit fire and fame against
the King OF England and, above all. against
his nephew, the German Kaiser, Protest
ant, too, and as powerful a sovereign as
= his uncle 10.
-whatt' they cry they are not ever
Catholics. they are explicitly or implicitly
our allies; for every reason they should
ignore the Papacy and yet they come here
10 assert, under cover OF q diplomatic fic-
ton, that the Pope is a sovereign, not merely
aspirtual sovereign, but a temporal sover-
eign The one quietly, the other with
pomp, lends himself in Rome itself to the
programme settled upon by the Curia to
preserve it's claims No; for the m there ie
not one single sovereign at Rome; there are
two, and that is an insult to the nation
an insult to ite King What use have we
for their visits II they are made only at the
cost OF this ahront? And it Is a radical
Ministry. supported by the Socialists
that toerates such abuses! We are dared
10 our faces, and Italian regiments line
the route Of our insulters from the Quirina
TO the Piazza di San Petrol
ls71-lo0s When Plus TX. died many
good souls groaned. thinking that wher
the beloved Pope was gone II would bt
hard to turn mems hearts and eyes with al
great enthusiasm toward the rock Of st
Peter! How many thinkers acute
rationalists, declared or thought to them
selves that after that Pope Of kindness ane
nobility. bearing the august crown Of tragic
misfortunes, no Pontifex Ma1imus coule
act with such vividness on mems imagina
tons Again both sides blundered. Thu
augurs on the right and on the left wer'
short-aighted 4 am with you Away
even unto the end OF the world Thu
child who understands these words know
more than the augurs Of the right ane
the left Even unto the end Of the world.
Pefhaps the world is only beginning
At the beginning Of the nineteenth centur,
Napoleon closed tho abyss OF the Revolt
ton and disinfected France by placing the
Cross on the brow Of the Roman Empire
4 few years later the Gar OF all the Russia
made himself the protector OF the Sovereign
Pontif against the new Constantine. wht
had become prosecutor.
Later still. Catholic nations took up agai'
their guard Of honor around the Vatican
afterward they deserted it. The Church
morally, has lost nothing by these deser
tons To-day the immortal right OF the
fopes. thanks to . diplomatic fiction whio'
strike. at the heart Of the despoilers. i
respected. and by whom? Above all b!
the heads Of Christian States that are no
Catholic. Edward VII. on whose dominion