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Show LEO XIII. Views as to HlsOonne In the' l'outlllcute. The Kind ol a Man He Is. New York, 28. The new pope's ohoice of name is explained by the statement that popes generally as sume as their new nameB those of their predecessors with whom they bave bad intimate relations, or who may have introduced them into their ecclesisetical career. Thus the late 1 pontifl who in his youth was senton an important mission to South America, Amer-ica, assumed in gratitude the title ol Pius IX, and thus Cardinal Pecri who was introduced into tbeacademie ecclesiastics by Leo XII, assumes the title of Leo XUI. The announcement that there will bt no ceremony at the church of St. John Lateran to-morrow in connection connec-tion with Leo's coronation is held by some as conclusive evidence evi-dence that he will continue the policy of his predecessor to the extent of declining to recognize the temporal government of Italy in the old papal dominion. As that ohurcb is sitaated within the secular dominion of the Roman court, p;r mission to hold the coronation there would have to be asked of King Humbert. Another view is that Leo in abstaining abstain-ing from asking euch permission seeks simply to avoid making any preciptate commitment as to his policy and that his abstention does not necefsarily ' indicate that he inlends to make bimsell a - prisoner at the- Tntian. Rolerring to the chief interests of the week in the religious world, the election of a new pope, eastern journals contain many facta and suggestions sug-gestions relative to the Tiews and probable course of Leo XIII. The general conviction iB that his success is a conservative triumph of liberals, as opposed to ultramontanes, but Rev. James J. Laucblin, of Philadelphia, who was educated at the propaganda m Rome, where he was recently ordained, or-dained, produced an original paper written by Cardinal Fecci, as Laugh lin says, at the time of Victor Emmanuel's Em-manuel's more aggressive movements against the ohurcn and which indicates indi-cates what the proteBtiog policy of the new pope will be. He protests against innovations which are injurious inju-rious to the rights of the church. The first of these is the subjection sub-jection of ecclesiastical tribunals thereby taking from the clergy their asoient privileges. The next is the abolition of immunity of holy places which has reference refer-ence principally to the fact that the right of the church and Italy to receive biquests is taken away. He further protests against the taking from under episcopal vigilance, educational edu-cational and other institutions and placing them under the charge of the civil government, the taking of sacramental registers and other church books indispensable for tbe pastoral office, from parish priests and putting them in the hands of civil magistrates, and in particular the manner against the strange and anli-oanonioal anli-oanonioal rules relating te civil mar-1 riages. The cardinal goes ou to denounce the sacrilegious confiscation confisca-tion of ecclesiastical property, the suppression of the religious orders and the unusual taxes and exactions upon sacred benefices and all ecclesiastical patrimony. Another high dignitary f the Roman churoh in Philadelphia who was ordained by the present pope when be was bishop of Perugia, says the story ot Cardinal Pecci's life will enable any intelligent observer to judge of hiBOharactsr. King Leopold was one ol the moat astute and unprincipled un-principled men in Europe. Although he had but a small army around him when the thrones of the most power ful monarchs in Christendom were tottering, he managed to sit firmly on his own. At the court of this monarch Cardinal Pecci not only succeeded suc-ceeded in defending the rights of tbe church in Belgium, but did it without caminz into any antagonism with Leopold. In fact he so commended himself to the king's good will that he was made knight of the golden collar. Leopold also requested Pope Gregory 10th, to elevate Cardinal Pecci to the dignity of the cardi-nalate. cardi-nalate. In personal appearaneo and his culturfd manner, Pope Leo Xllf somewhat resembles Cardinal Mc-Closkey. Mc-Closkey. He has keen, peuetratiug eyes, ib very gentle and courteous iu deportment, exceedingly ami.iMe, quiet and seh'-poiai-ssed, aud bs a 'clear, quick acting and peuetrating ! mind. Another authority denies the men , that Cardinal Tecci waa not liked by ! ritiij IX. whft withheld lor seven years tho bat i hat had been given him by .Gregory XVI, and that be was prac ticdlly banished to his diocese of Per , ui. iucto.id ol being invited tti groce the R-jftiau rourt. The truth is, as in the rirtol these points, that be wu Dot created in petto by Gregory, bui his einvTtinn to the purple was an original act of Pius himself, and also, as to the second, that all cardinals who bate sees are expected, excep. under fpecial circumstances, to reside in them. Cardinal Pecci was a good biihop and lived with his flock. Piue IX, whea bishop of Imola, did the same. |