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VATICAN AND QU|RINAL
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EACH OTHERS VISITORS
Pope Plus X Following in the
Footsteps of His Two Imme-
date Predecessors.
GUESTS OF ITALY'S KING
Will Not Be Received by the Cath
Ole Sovereign During Their
Stay in Rome.
NO CHANGE IN POLICY
New Pontiff VIII Remain "Pris-
oner"-Little Hope of Recon-.
citation.
GUESTS OF ITALY'S KING
NO CHANGE IN POLIO
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ROME, Jan. 9.-Pipe Plus X has come
out openly in support of the policy of his
two immediate predecessors regarding the
relations between the Vatican and the Ital-
ian government. AS a consequence neither
President Loubet, of France nor King AL
fonso, of Spain, will be received at the Vat
lean during their projected visits to Rome,
because it was laid down a principle by
Pope Leo that no Catholic sovereign who
came to Rome as guest of the King of
Italy, should be received by the head OF
the Catholic Church.
The decision of the present Pope to follow
the policy of his predecessors in this re-
gard, removes almost the iast nope or
reconciliation between the government and
the Vatican. When Cardinal sarto was
elected Pope, the whole world began to
watch his actions and his words, seeking
to ascertain whether the new Pontiff would
follow the policy of Leo or inaugurate one
of his own Pope Piuss policy for the first
five months of his reign has been strictly
religious. He has personally declared on
more than one occasion that he will al
ways subordinate politics to religion, al
though he believes it necessary, in his po-
sition, as head of the church, to take a di-
rect interest In politics, both of Italy and
of other countries, in order that he may
safeguard the rights of Catholics.
Ever since 1870. when the troops of the
italian government entered Rome and
swept away the last vestige of the papal
temporal power, the italian political situa-
ton has had a close relation TO the policy
of the Vatican. Pope Plus TX, in the year
named, found himself confronted by one of
the most difficult problems in the history
of the church. 1t was absolutely neces-
sary TO protest against the taking of the
property of the Holy See by the Italian
government. and such protest was siren
uouSly made by Plus TX ana Leo ALL DUR
ing their certificates
The italian government offered Pope Plus
TX the free possession of several palaces
which were to be considered eXtraterri-
torial; the payment of a yearly indemnity
of 5000. 900; and sovereign honors whenever
the head of the Church chose to come out
of the Vatican and drive through the streets
of Rome. The then Pope absolutely refused
these terms as embodied in the laws of
guarantees, and insisted on the restitution
of at least a part of the temporal possess
sionS taken from the papacy. The govern
ment refused to recede from its position, and
Plus TX announced his intention Of remain
ing a prisoner in the Vatican, which he
never left until his death in 1873. His policy
was continued by Leo XIII, who went even
farther in that he restrained Italian Cath
olics from taking any part in the political
elections, and also prevented Catholic SOW
ereigns from coming to Rome to visit him,
in order that his reception of such illustri-
Gus guests in the Vatican might not be in
terpreted as approval Of the action of the
Italian government against the Holy See.
Catholics all over Italy rejoiced last Au-
gust at the election of Cardinal SartO, then
Patriarch of Venice, because they thought
they saw in ii a prospect that the difficult
ties between the Vatican and the House of
Savoy were soon to be ended, and new and
more liberal papal policy inaugurated. They
recalled with enthusiasm the friendly inter
course of the Venetian patriarch with the
members of the royal family on the occa-
sion of the latter's visit TO Venice in 1898;
and in the activity of the then provincial
bishop in rallying Catholics around the poll
ing places at municipal elections, they
thought they indication that the
new Pope would abolish the non-eXpedit Of
Plus TX and Leo XIII and grant Catholics
the right of voting in their country. They
recalled the personal charity and benev-
olence OF Sarto and considered IL q sure sign
of reconcila ton with the italian authorities
and the actions and words Of the new Pope
during the first three four months of his
pontificate, seemed to justify these views
and predictions.
Plus X has several times declared that
confinement within the Vatican grounds
was burdensome to him, and has even gone
so fas as TO express his intention of leav-
ing the palace and perhaps pay a visit to
his dear Venice. The recent fire in the
Vatican was the indirect cause of added
rejoicing, because by express orders of the
Pope. the fremen of Rome were called in
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