Show THE POPE IN TROUBLE AN english paper is the authority fr for the assertion that leo lee XI 1 IT I soon will issue a manifesto to the roman catholics throughout the world announcing his intention to leave borne with his court and all its at fend tend ants the persecution sn of crispi and the liberal italian gov eror nent have assumed such a na ture fure that the pope fl ads that he can not put up with them any longer and at the same time preserve his dignity as maximus it to is more likely that somebody f has again advised the pope to leave borne this has bag been done before buethe but the idea of leaving rome has r never liever struck the head of the oatho catho me be church as practicable it must ft abe remembered that rome is Z claimed calmed to be the place from which poter peter is said bait to have maintained his p over the apostolic churches and the popes found their claims chiefly on the alleged faaet that they are the real successors althe apostle and consequently hirs to his bis titles gifts and author ay for the pope to leave rome rom is therefore no small thing and the 18 provocations pro vocations to move must indeed be great before he be will conclude to do so BO to leave rome would be to leave the seat of peter and with ft it the authority held as the alleged allegado successor euc cessor of peter it is therefore apt probable that the pope will ever A sf leave kove rome unless compelled to do so oby by force it sounds bounds like a grim sarcasm to ar ape the pope pepe talk of being perse ted by the italian government hat has baa the government then done to his Holi holiness the popes have been claiming rome and a considerable strip of land around it as their exclusive property the people of italy have thought that italy really belonged to the che people and not to the pope the government has carried out this idea and established rome as the political capital of the country the pope has been told that his meddling with the political questions would wit mt be acceptable to the government hut that he would have to content himself with being the spiritual head of the many millions that willingly admit his supremacy in matters nat of religion on account of these thes e and similar aggressions as they have been called on the part of the government the present pope has enclosed himself within the walls ot of the vatican and been pleased to call himself a persecuted man a prisoner of the lord but there is nothing in the situation to call for much sympathy the pope never tasted persecution yel some time just retribution will be meted out to the occupant of the pontifical throne in rome some time the millions of martyrs that fell victims to the blood thirst of the roman beast will be avenged when that time comes the pope may with more inore propriety talk arout persecution and about leaving rome at present we presume he is comfortable enough in his bis palace and his scarlet robe |