Year: 1870

Public Comments the POpe's Fnll-I1Ow


the Collapse of tho InfaIIibiiity Dogma il


Regarded.


No event since the surrender of Napoleon has 30
thoroughly excited the masses OF our population az
did the intelligence yesterday received OF the entry
into the Holy City OF the Italian troops The excite
ment was not confined any special nationality or
religion; it was general, and the comments were
varied indeed. The Protestants hailed 1t as the pre-.
cursor OF the inal termination OF the tempo
raj power OF the Pope. and the Catho-
lies, on the other hand, In some in
stances declared 1t was the dawn or q new dispen.
sation Tor those protesting the faith OF the Holy
Catholic Church. In Baxter and Elm streets, where
Italians "mOst do c0ngregate." there was great re-
Jocng at the success or the Italian troops In their
triumphant occupation of the Eternal City. Among
the Germans in the Bowery and on the east side OF
the city there were few comments INDUCED
In, as the majority OF them, to use the
language OF one, don't care a continental for the
Pope or his adherents so long the boy Fritz lives
beer holds out The more intelligent portion OF our
Irish population who carefully the papers, dis
but, without an exception, declared that IN the
event Of his Holiness finding necessary to take up
ceive sucn q reception at the hands OF his
spiritual children a. would eclipse anything that had
ever been witnessed on this Continent. The Catho-
lie clergy quite retcent, but hope that affairs In
Europe will bet so shaped that his Holiness will not
nnd II necessary 70 become fugitive from old
Rome.


There was much difference 0! opinion among the
Catholic clergy in this city in reference to sub
Ject HERALD reporter 'interviewedr several of
the most prominent among them, and found two
very strongly marked partles-the ultramOntanes,
who contend for all the claims, spiritual and tempo
raj Of the Pope. and If we may so speak,


THE AMERICAN PRIESTHOOD,


whO born here or having come here at an early age
and become imbued with the spirit OF American
freedom, regarded the position from purely rel
gtOus aspect and mad no sympathy with the pre-
tensions OF the Holy Father to temporal sovereignty
The cergymen Of the latter class, the majority OF
conviction that the Romans, while entertaining the
highest regard for PiOus TX personally, naturally
aspred to see their historic city again play part in
the great events which form the history or our age
The two classes Of the Catholic clergy In New York
spoke with the most marked difference on this
the Irish English or Scotch colleges at
Rome were strongly utramOntane In their
views. The native American clergymen, or those
who came here when young, expressed directly Op-
poslte views. They believed the overthrow of the
temporal power OF the Pope the advent of new
Church. In the past they argued the pretensiOns OF
the Pope to divine right to temporal power has
been fertile source Of the strong enmity OF Protest
ants to candid investigation Of the claims OF Ca
thOlicsm to be the "only true reigion.n Tie Ame-
can born educated portion of the Catholic clergy
Italians to have the Eternal City the capital OF
united Italy. Victor Emanuel having offered to
guarantee the independence of the Holy Father the
impression Is rapidly gaining ground among the
more intelligent portion OF the Catholic community
that the Pope being untrammelled In regard to
the world over. will necessarily, be more carefully
attended to.