The Irish standard., 1910-07-09
The CONC0RDAT
Is Violated by the Spanish Govern
ment in Decree Issued
Lately.
Vatican Assures Prussians no Insult
was Meant for Them in
Encyclical.

Spanish Ministry has assumed towards
the Church in that country points to
an imitation of the persecution waged
IN France against the Church, and
has created considerable anxiety in
Rome, says the Brookly Tablet. The
"Osservatore Romano" published yes.
terday morning the following note:
Scarcely had the Holy See had
sure information of the imminent pub
LEGATION Of the Royal Decree, which
appeared yesterday in the Official
Gazette of Madrid, a Decree preju-
dicial to the Concordat, it did not
fall to despatch to the Spanish Gov
eminent it's formal protests" The
suppression of the Religious Orders,
first beginning with a certain class of
them, is threatened The Holy See
has no other means of upholding the
rights and liberties of the Church
than that of protest. The Spanish
Minister to the Vatican has informed
his government that the Vatican
would protest; and now this is about
to be accomplished.
BY coincidence which is notable,
in association with this action of the
Spanish Government towards the
Church, a pilgrimage from Spain was
to arrive to-day at Civita vecchia, and
pursue its route towards Rome. The
pilgrims, who are about three hun
dred in number, are conducted by the
Rt. Rev. Mgr. Pedro Juan Campus
Barcelo, Bishop of the diocese OF
Majorca. The pilgrims have come the
whole way by sea in a Spanish steam
er. They will remain a week in the
Eternal City.
The strange and unexpected agita-
ton created by certain anti Catholic
associations in Prussia, religious and
political, against the Pontiff, on occa-
sion of the Pope's Encyclical Letter
on st. Charles Borromeo, has been
cause of supreme surprise to people
in Rome. How the calm, studious
Germans, who know their history so
we'll and who have measured SO justly
the lives of the Reformers and the
peculiar nature of what is called the
Reformation in Germany, could be-
come indignant, is one Of the puzzles
of the day, and can only be explained
as an alteration of judgment and
good sense.
A Note Of Assurance.
In order to remove from the minds
of the non Catholics in Prussia the
idea that the Pope had any thought
of them when he issued the Ency-
clical, note from the Vatican was
communicated to the officious organ,
the "Osservatore Romano" assuring
those likely to be concerned that tic
Holy Father, in the Encyclical he is
sued, had not the remotest idea of re-
ferring to the nom Catholics of Ger
many, or of offending them. And be-
sides, attention is called to the fact
that he made no mention of the peo-
FAS VI AAAASCo VI ally SpSCldl COu1llFy.
The note further points out that the
Pope spoke of the Catholics of that
time who rebelled against the Holy
See; and attention was drawn to the
very kindly feelings which His Holi-
ness expressed on quite recent oc-
casion towards Germany and its
Princes.
This note from the Vatican, SO far
as one may see, has not satisfied the
exigences of the Prussian Government.
and it is said that Herr Won Much
berg, the Prussian Minister to the
Holy See, has formulated a precise
demand to which should be given an
assurance that the Encyclical does not
concern Germany and that it will not
be read from the pulpits by the
clergy.
To Direct Irish Choir.