| Show POSITION OF THE VATICAN i WOULD RUTHCR TIin CATHOLIC PRIESTS KEPT OUT OF FOUTICB Is Afraid of New Division In the Ranks and an Outburst of Intemperate In-temperate Political Feeling on 1 the Part of the People The Standing Stand-ing Danger to Romanism In Aiilerlcn LONDON Oct 27The Pall Mall Gazette Ga-zette publishes a dispatch from its Rome correspondent in which he says The coming presidential election in I the I unuea states is tne absorbing topic at the Vatican owing to the strides oPa I by Catholicism in America now pne of the largest sources of Income the church has I recognizes that the standing danger of Romanism in the United States is the Independence of the American bishops notably since the death of Plus IX The latter recognized that the blsn ops enjoyed greater power than their brethren elsewhere and he showed he understood this by his answer to some English priests who asked for certain privileges He said I am aa you say pope yet I cannot grant your request But I can show you a way to obtain y6ur desire Go to America for there the bishops are greater than the pope On the accession of Pope Leo matters assumed turned a different aspect He charged Mgr Satolll with the duty of intimating to the bishops in unmistakable language the limits of their powers and the esult was something like a spilt which It took Mgr Satolll to heal But his mission had good results The correspondent adds that the vat can does not wish the clergy in the United States to take part in the campaign cam-paign there lest there should b a new division in the ranks and an outburst of intemperate political feeling on the part of the people |
