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Show i pope's jubilee Reveals Power, . ) ? Despite Prediction of Foes, Celebration at Rome Shows I Loyalty of Church Powers Bow in Respect, and Unity Greater than Ever. S I 5 ("Corresponde nre Chicago Tribune.) , i 1 ; . ii no, March 8. The papal jubilee is ! cniing' up to the most enthusiastic an- t ticipBtions. Ever jealous of the pa- f j.a, yV slories the quirinal journals pre- I ,!iri'-i a fizzle. , -Fetor's pence are falling off," they paid; "the jubilees follow too closely i ,,n due another, religious loyalty is I f ."lii of Cardinal Iirimpolla has re- j , , ived such mortal lovs that it will I chck the coming and going between . I 111'- mortal capital of Christendom and ' i tin- provinces." ( - spite of such prophecies the papal jiJolce is flooded with light from all 4 .--. i' S. There is no need of describing v r';' enthusiasm of Catholics; it is great, Y P r.'-ral and resistless. j Nevertheless, the factious did try to i iii.ik" trouble and confusion. Ilefract- j . groups of ail kinds, giving a wrong construction to I tome's political and so- j c iid institutions, tried to turn the late i i , ' ti'.s into a source of warfare between I !!! papal office and the person of Leo "5 XI 11. It was useless. '1 here may be discord in the public dciiia in. but when the great bell of St. I Peter's rings over the world, all dis- 1 h, i sions cense; all superhuman chival- ; i y Marts in a body and hastens to the t sMep d mount. Never did the papacy shine upon the world with such splen- .1 i; : it has gaineil an ascendancy which I i inii"t be checked. Dogmatic and hier- ! ;ih ha I unity has produced moral unity :.nd gens-ral affection. It is an institu- V ' t. 'ti. as Victor Hugo says, "placed in I th' center of all like a sonorous echo." f j i M'.KFIENCE SAVES CATHOLICISM. J intellectual obedience has saved Cath- ! (eiei.m from breaking into pieces: the ii i.mas and institutions 'have stood r erect under the protection of this ir- I I removable magistracy. It is perennial, l i immutable continuity that assures not j i imiy the immortality of the church, but constant progress as well, the advance I. I p. ward the future evolution in the same direction in "ecdern sensi et in eodern 1 (I'lL-ir.atie." Tradition and progress, the two forces of every normal civili- J nation, are combined and brought to- ; ether so well in Catholicism that the church keeps holding the sacred torch, which the generations, as they fly by, j pas on from hand to hand. 1 LK t ADDS EXPANSION TO UNITY, j The administrative concentration, f completed and welded together under I I'ius IX. has broadened the social zone of the papacy. To the power of unity . Leo XIII has added the force of ex- i pansion. The two organisms in the j set ice df ihe moral power and of a I religious idea will increase still more the sphere and the spirit of conquest )fj of the papacy. 1 Such is the historical result of the "iast two pontificates, and so Leo XIII en.'oys at a miraculously great age the I marvels which God has sown during i hi reign. If some conservatives are jf- .till unable to perceive the opportune tieatness of the lloman policies their limitation is neither concerning the de- ; fiw of obedience nor the absence of ; security; it is based on two phenom- ; ena of eternal psychology, the difliculty' of grasping the spirit of a new period. j which involves the giving up of old 1 tin thuds of Wtirk. The difference in j J points of view has had no harmful effect ef-fect on the mass of devotion; it has i impl.v brought about -more clearly the ; micht and sovereignty of the results i "that "hare been' attained, In the next j'eiitificate the policies which are still : jesisted here and there will become the J only policy, the sole method of work, the general strategy. i WORLD JOINS IN JUBILEE. j n the part of the states of the world ,;: he jubilee of 1902 has the same brill- ;, ancy as that of 18S8. That was like a dream. The first jubilee, that of 1SSS, I crowned a work of incomparable gran- l tleur, the amphictyonic negotiations j vith the powers. Leo XIII had made peace in the high places. England sought Rome's friendship, ! f-i:d General Simmons had just left the ; 'Vatican after putting through a deli- ate political mission. President CI?ve- i land thanked the pope for his atlitule ef unification in the United States. The j Prench republic was checking the Kul- turkanipf movement. Finally,- to be 1 'ief, the pope had just forced peace ! upon Germany, and had acted as irbi- ira tor in the matter of the Carolina is!and.. About the Vatican, above St. j 1'et-rs. there was a light, a flame of -p 'thesis which history, men thought, 'would not repeat. I I'oWEKAND INFLUENCE PERMA- NENT. ; New the course of the present jubilee s-h.'ws that the situation, then believed 'Mi Herd i nary and transitory, had be- e i 'tiu. i i.-rin a nun t Vdvurl helecc thl 1 i. 'l-ii 'Kalliement" policy that is to !-. 'he policy of adhesion to the re- j !' -. the endeavor to re-establish ,a- tioal unity in France, and conseuently to make the country strong and pros- t ' ' "lis disturbed the rivals of the f; i, eh action. Was not the pope sten-! sten-! ing out of his proper place? Had lie a i uht to choose among states? (ould intervene in strictly political -jes- I ::s in behalf of a country? In sev- ; 'al countries, as is well known, gov- i "iim nt and press found fault w ith the j ' particular friendship" which Leo XIII Va said to profess for France. In f r;-::e of conflicts and mutterings the '- s- :,.s now show the pope eual atten- t . 'i. j : h" results obtained are permanent 'tj'!s. Th ascendency which the gen- ; of Leo XIII has acquired is not a 4 .-'nous episode due to th authorHve ' : great mind; it is a regular, normal ; i 'M inent condition. In the prence of i "' apal policy in France men have : t last seen that Leo XIII was simply 1 e; -forming his natural duty, re-estab- i hing peate and harmony, as he had 'n !n Spain, In Prussia, in Russia, in i Switzerland, and elsewhere. What was i "hanging was not the essence of his 1 netii -cut intervention: it was only the ?: .inner and form. AS TO PUPLIC OPINION, ''"hero remained public opinion. Men's ' inds in 18S8 had favored and followed fol-lowed the action of the states. Leo Nil! sei mei so great, his ministry to s aejouK, his actions so conciliating 1 kind that the w h' le press, even -he j ! ! sans of the Quirinal, vied in exalting , ! '-hr- irloi ies of the nentificate. Today the I ' sanation is somewhat (hanged. The "I. os von Rom" movement, the Drey-lus Drey-lus affair, the aggressiveness of anti-r anti-r erica! elements, the almost universal var against the religious orders nave hanged the atmosphere. In Franco pai t icularly the policy of adhesion and Hie Catholic Socialist movement have Harmed the anti-clericals. It is the papacy's ideas of govern-nicnt. govern-nicnt. therefore, that first brought on the new attack. Regrettable incidents h 've increased its power and import- j ' -co. Hence throughout the world 'inro is a sort of erv of "sentinel, be-': be-': -o," directed against the pope's fc "liomes and ascendency of Catholi- ism. in this there is a decisive lesson in favor of the Roman policy. Nothing, in my opinion, shows that brilliantly its opportune fruitfulness. To all hon- i I 'st men it is irrefutable proof that I Catholics, in order to increase their i influence, must take up the methods of : I-eo XIII. j This slate of mind might have -cooled the temperature at Rome on Ihe-.occa- j f'mn of the jubilee. Some journals, it j 'S true, the chief representatives of the anti-clerical combination, have uttered discordant notes. This has occurred in Germany, in Austria, and in Belgium. But apart from this, agrement of the comments on the pope and papacy is noticeable. The great newspapers have rendered worthy homage to the grand ol man. Leo XIII has been touched by these remarkable honors. The festivals and aaaresses nave given htm inexpressible joy. Emotions strengthen him and prolong his days. So we may conclude with an ardent wish the hope that the jubilee of his reign may become a fountain of youth and the beginning of a new longevity for him whom a liberal newspaper once called "the Benjamin of Europe." INNOMINATO. |