The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-12-08
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WILL POPE BENEDICT LEAVE ROME?

WILL POPE BENEDICT LEAVE ROME?
The man or agency at the Vatican whose is
to deny the truth of purportng from
the Holy Father and the several departments church ad
minstraton is kept working full at double shift
Hardly day without giving rise sensa
tional or absurd to the activities Pope
the dignitares of his household and the man
the lookout must take prompt to deny them
if they enemy submarines. allowed to cir
cuate for any great length of time it becomes i'm
possible to stop their AS the velocity of falling
bodies increases in uniform ratio with the time
ment so these stories gain speed momentum COM
mensurate with the period their motion.
The Vatican authorities fully the Importance
checking the spread of these malicious Vaccinations and
are on the alert to do but in spite of their
GUS exerons stories get abroad spread to
the ends of the earth before and deny
them IN one aspect of the matter this
and spread abroad the opinions the
church authorities is fattering tribute their
porance manfesting the whole world
in the position of the church respect great public
issues of the day. but the other hand, her wise
counseors we'll understood her enemies the
alert to prevent dstort injury any action or
stand taken by her responsible officials
One of the most gives the init
nation that Pope Benedict is contemplating the change of
his residence to Spain until the
This report has been circulated by Press
and must be taken with the proverba grain SALT
as yet be discerned The rumor however, given
rise to some retrospecons and forecasts that will be of
general public interest present reference
to the conditions under which the pons have left the
Eternal City in the possible partial
ton of their temporal power
In the exercise of his functions head of the church
the Pope must have freedom action
is curtaed the interests church will suffer and
the interests of humanity will suffer The Pope often
mediator between the warning nations of the world
is essential in the of that his actions should
be unhampered.
temporary removal of the Pope from Rome would in
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still be Bishop of Rome, and the Bishop of Pope
In the past Popes have left Rome for time either
captives because local disturbances prevented them
from freely exercising their Office in the Eternal City In
the fourteenth century the their
at Avgnon in France. Several of the Avig
'>pes resided in Rome None of them the
Bishop of Avignon, which had it's bishop Each of
them Bishop Of Rome Plus vi, who died in captiv-
y at Valence had been prisoner of the French for
before his death in 1899 Plus VII elected by
conclave which in Venice after vacancy Roman
See of six months and not able to enter Rome
until four months after his election He afterwards
prisoner of Napoleon for five years. during which time his
prison in several different cities of France The with
drawal of Plus TX to Gaea forced by revolution in the
city. the last instance of the Pope removing from
Rome He remained in Gaeta from November "a, 1849,
to April IL, 1850
In relation to temporal the usurpaion of the Papal
States the Italian has recognized
by the official heads of the church formal endliness
least existed between Quirnal Vatican
years. and the incidents the great
tended to stimulate rather than destroy this feeling And
circles is predicted that of the results
conference will be at least partial restoration
the territorial sovereignty formerly exercised by the
Bishops of this for the preservation of the
full freedom Of the exercise of their spiritual functions
than delight in the vanity enjoying
porary power If freedom to be distributed in larger
than before there is prospect that the
Popes will longer be prisoners at the Vatican, but
be position to communicate freely with the faith
full and the world regardless of national political align
ments.