Show CATHOLICS OBJECT PROTESTS AGAINST TiE COMiNG CELEBRATION Letter Issued in 3IiIivnu1ceo Which is Squarely in Favor of the Temporal Tem-poral Power of the Pope MIUWIMJKEE Sept J6The pastoral pas-toral letter of the bishops of the I waukee archbishopric was read in all the Roman Catholic churches on Sunday Sun-day Its contents were a surprise even to Roman Catholics The letter is issued as an offset to the coming celebration in Italy of the twentyfifth anniversary of the unification of Italy I was prepared pre-pared at a meeting of the bishops of the province held last week After reciting re-citing the significance of the coming anniversary the bishops say While masonic Italy celebrates the memory of this sacrilegious usurpation it behooves the children of the church to loudly proclaim their unabated loyalty alty and hearty affections toward the holy father and their strong and lasting last-ing protest against his despoliation and captivity Quoting from the Vatican council as the authority of the pope the letter says that Rome is the natural see of the pope where he must be free and independent which independence implies im-plies his temporal or political sovereignty sover-eignty After calling on American Roman Ro-man Catholics not to be misled by appeals ap-peals t Italian unity the letter says The leaders of the Italian revolution revolu-tion had no right to rob the pope of his provinces and to seduce their inhabitants in-habitants into rebellion simply because be-cause these happened to speak the Italian language and dwell under Italian Ital-ian skies The sovereignty of the people peo-ple in the sense which alone it can be asserted by Christians bars out the pretended right of revolution Even I the Roman plebiscit of October 2 1S70 had nol been a perfect farce enacted en-acted by the political comedians to deceive de-ceive the foreign governments yet it could never have deprived the pope of his sovereign temporal rights over Rome guaranteed to him by older and more perfect titles than those held by any living monarch Rome has never been greater and its Inhabitants have never been happier than when they enjoyed the peaceful rule of their papal pa-pal king and never more miserable and ardently stricken by Gods hand than when they rebelled against their lawful sovereign or joined the ranks of his enemies The entire sentiment and language of the letter places this province squarely in favor of the temporal power pow-er of the pope |