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Show THE POPE'S POSI riuN. Italy has obtained p,-sc-siun of 1'ome, but the Homau que. , ion is not by any means settled. The many million.') mil-lion.') of Koman Catholics who vic-.v I'io Nono a-i their spiritual head, do not aquicsce in the occupation of the ''Eternal City" by the Italian government. govern-ment. They hold luon-ter mectiNL;'-in mectiNL;'-in ariom parts of tl: : world, utter protests, and sjtk interference in behalf be-half "f the Pope. Some of them lalk of a ei-i-ailu for hi.- liljruiioti and r-'in'-Jateun lit in bi- I'-uipon -M. tenia fj: and. tbou'.-'i ihi t i- not the ace- to inaui.oii.iic -nee-.'---fully siieh a -eheme, there i- not, wauling strong indncnee lii'il will bo exerted in h'n behalf, and may d.ly move -onie of t lie poV'-ri ill n:'f;oM' to ;)''aiil Mteuip! r:'.!":i:. !v :n iii".i.omm of the .Jt; Pontile- '.' 'i'iliiini'n h', foh-e of' mill-. ) t i - in I as (! I.iin ti nt Victor Ei -icl will not give i:p the advi!,ii.ge has gained without a ::ug!-!c. Ee has seen Piedmont and Sardinia grow into the Kingdom oi iuiiy, and tiiat Kingdom become Lniic l Italy, wi'H Koine as its great centre: and he -. ..1 not quietly make a I retrograde niovem.nt with over twenty uii.iiiiiiE -t' -Italians to aid him. ISu'.i, the .Popedom has been more m critical positions than it is at present, and has arisen ; and it wouiu not be strange if even Pio Nono should once more wield a temporal powoi from the A aticaii us great as that o! which he has recently been stripped. We live in strange, eventful times ; and they v. ho think the lloman Catholic Catho-lic church has sunk with the decadence of power of its head, little understand the liim Kiiih nl' its adherents, or the great .;;d'uy there exists in it as a church. |