The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-18

sibns and Of society against anarchism,
socialism and the social sins which eat the
fabric Of society like cancer.
When Leo was elected he made 1t
known that ne proposed to relinquish the
appeAation Prisoner Of the Vatican" as
sumed by his predecessor, Piux TX, in
alluston to the. occupation of Rome and
the states OF the church by the Italian
government, and expressed the desire to
nave q public coronation, but the purpose
was abandoned, ana by the ad--
vice OF some cardinals, he arefrained
from observing the old custom Of giving
the traditional benediction, "urbi ct
orbf from the balcony on the west front
OF st. Peters and delivered it from the
balcony in the interior. looking into the
church. Every time he tried to depart
from the policy of Plus TX. Leo found
strenuous opposition on the part Of the
Jesuits. It was in opposition to the Ul-
tranontane influence that Leo advised
participation of the faithful in the Roman
municipal elections. 1t was in opposition
to the reactionaries that Leo persistently
sought to strengthen the church by heal
ing the breach between the civil and &c
clesiastical authority In every country In
Christendom He was opposed by the
reactionaries, even in his successful ef-
forts to secure modification Of the Prus-
sian ecclesiastical laws which Bismarck
brought to bear disastrously upon the
Roman church, compelling the vacation
of thousand parishes and dozen
sdioceses and shutting up church schools.
It is distasteful to the reactionaries that
the pontiff should make any concession to
the civil power to obtain modus yivendi
for the church. Leo effected; notable
composition with Prussia and other Ger
man states, taking advantage of Bis
ualize his protective tariff policy and to
defeat the growing power of the social
democrats. No pontiff has made such
earnest efforts to abate. the growth of
irreligion, which has been and a fea-
ture of social democracy, notably in Ger
many and France and Italy. His encycli-
calls on burning social questions are pres
ent-day documents Of the highest i'm
portance. Leo has sought to bring the
eastern church and the Anglo-Catholic
church into unity with the Roman Cath
Ollie church, Intellectually, but in noble
spirit Of Cancellation. It remains for his
successor to effect a restoration Of peace
in Italy itself where 1t is a foregone con-
clusion that United Italy will never con-
sent to become disunited Italy, thru the
restoration Of the territory formerly
known as the states of the church.
It was stated by a5cardinal yesterday in
Rome (nanaes not givenl that Catholics
cannot accept a pope with reactionary and
anti -liberal IDEAS Certainty the sugges-
ton that. Cardinal Gibbons SIS a fit sue
eessor of Leo .XIIIs IS worthy of atten-
ton. The liveltest and most progressive
and successful portion of the Latin church
to-day rs found right here in the United
States Observation-Disclosures a mar
row portion Of the church. and does not
fully realize 1.-The demands of 1nodernity
upon the church. Leo XIII. has no doubt
set the pace for the future policy of the
| Roman church, which will be successful
according to the measure with which II
seeks to influence, righteously, the great
movements of the peoples which decide
| the future Of society.