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Show Oniotjir o the mi-pdiiAt mi-pdiiAt AurioitiTi m Tins vm oy bom, Tn recent publication- f a French pamphTctoii"the 1,'opeand f he Cbngressf nbticcd in the last issue of tfm ilojht TAiKEn, continues, to call Put (he talent and crnditfoa of the Catholic clergy (u support Pf thp toulinuancc of papal se cular authority1 f tlio "States Pf f ho C'hurclr.v 6(i theiOthPf Jitnuary, Arch-Wshop Arch-Wshop Ifughes and fltho Suffrngaii Bishops of the Ueclesfastfciil rrotince oC New York assembled in I'rpvinclai Coacll!'Prertlie subject,, and havd pob blished ''Manifesto" to thqfr "JDearly I beloved brethren of "the clergy and fiiith-falchildreri fiiith-falchildreri of (he InUy." flip jntrb-daetory jntrb-daetory of tho. address Is devbtei to" exhortatiOBS, and then the pamphjet pn the absorblbg'subject.is closely .rpvjewpcC To. as, the cfcrgy In conclave 'sceia,tP; have iePa Binck.shortof material tb'iairly eet the. paphlet, The. aiost sallentfaad Interesting portion Pf tM. address is that devoted, tp the origla. pf the jlopc teal-poral teal-poral wverefgHtyY MM '? tke. first .jimp that we hate met, with aaytuiug ofithe eabject. whlck may be jastly- regarded ,aa the best that cai( bp. saidr jewing the. taearand the clrcamstauceswp give itjp" our readers fis an Interesting item .efjikV. tory aadBcws. "tHR OWQW OF XttR rorti'a. TEMPORAL t 'hovyftfitONrV "The temperal authority of the. Pope Is pne-of these, qucstiotiff Ufa tltfea t stands tpday,. is; beyond nil. ;dispiite the ino3t lcgitiraiite that cah be put .forward by any fiovercigh. In Europe, or in the .world. TracpUfstory.ba(kflfftVds,andypu ilUud thiiVno rival Phumati't lias;, ever; appeared ;Jhat.uo.nis aisploccd.prisc.nt!into esiieby. him or his predecessors;5 tbt Jtft,titlbVis;'cP'nllrmc(l' by cenfnrlesf that it. hak been ratified ; !,the consent.of the nations of jDhrfttehr; dom;4lat noprolMthaspvctbeen ed jti' the archiVea of ilip "human- foeel will ihqurre Intp. the origin ;oTUu tHtP?, Ye answc.HhaVtho origin, dogs not ajir pear;ou,linman rdcorilj. All wet know, is, that after the conversion of Constantino the. .Great, thc.seatPf emprrp Was transferred trans-ferred .frpin Rome to lJyzuntfom. Baring the;lmineulale sibsciL'eut, ages the Em? peror rfnd his, siiccosWj witlidreyr apt-only apt-only tlie.tr presence, but aku their protection,, protec-tion,, from, the people, of Italy, The pcepTo ceased not to invoke tho aid of ,tne, Einpcror inTietios. of trial und of dc-jsohitioniPCfauihiCi dc-jsohitioniPCfauihiCi pestilence and invasion by barbarous, nations, . Tp. their appeal no Upswer camp, nor any aid..-1 Inl these trying' circumstances the. people .raised, their hands to thq SovcreigtiPoniiu", ;ieailr fog VipPn liim to. bo their temporal savTbr,' as vcll; aa their, father 'Kcithcr';were they,dlsapiK)intetV. ' '-In',famiueJicspph'cd aafaRaa possibe,-thejrvants; pesti leftcet bo wu8;aroPii5ihcm as!thelf comfbtv : tcr- A'tihp;npprb.Hcu:of cruet inrasion bCwciiit ,fjprtbifroin,,the Et.&rnul City bare hcadedtonectllm bararIurf;icayer-t'o bfer"bia,pwii pcrsbu for thesacriliccbiit .to plead:fpe the Safety of. the people. lu thlsic't'of cknrityTlt Is wel kirbwii 'that his pleading and his.lufluence became, on" ooro than onp occasion, vrt, shield of, pro-' tcc'tibh for their bthefwiso 'abandoned' nation.- . '-'"i.r'Wf-. , 'Many. writers' assert; tlmtConstahtine the Great conferred upon kim.by written. dOTumcntja 'certain ispecies, of, politfeul right to goyern;wliuya3. thbp, orvgobn arte'r,callcdthe Dit'chy-of Rbmc';' Other .writer?, with crddUtQit.;qoit6 tas respect-.ablctenyth'p. respect-.ablctenyth'p. trutli, of 'ilm 'stateracnt bf a donation by thefiKtOhristjod'Etriperor. We do BPtrePterinto this omastion: foit apDcarstblus Pf: very; slight,; importahcci; AU-weknow is,:thai tlic tcinporal authority author-ity of thVEmperors, .frbm Coustaritliie the Great,' ccascd.lb'.bc erci$ed-.in what Is npwlcalled the S tates Pf the Church,, but escially jn thafc ppIon.which was more1 immediately;.c6h'nect .with the Imperial city of Itonie; It was not usurped by thblloly Falhcri It was rather forced uppnhim by.tho wishes; and damor of a neglected and ungovcrned people. It was ij'rtsdtrrliciii." lint at. -ail event's, in the prlgin of the temporal power of. the Pope, he was the -chosca ruler of the' Italian people, . within the limits of w)iat afterwards becanio his civil jurisdiction? "P.opnlar history states tharatHi'sab-Sequent'peridd tharatHi'sab-Sequent'peridd -Pepin, and Charlemagne of Jfc'rancP made hIni a doi(ntIbn bflhis: same .territory,,, wltldditlpnui; graulff of I c.tcnsiptt.pS,to"Jta aurfaiFe aud.'popnMtloni Thcrels certainly some truth- connected with Jhts statement But wo do "not .understand Jf 'in the sense which th phraseology bfV.r popular blstpry woiihf seem tff Iudicate, Oiir uuderstandhigTs thntPepin and Charlemagne did roakp Eoma. additional concessions, increasing iba extent of tbe Pope's temporal dominion. domin-ion. They rosy indeed have signed their unmca to documents confirming the right of the Sovereign PontiiT "to exercise civil dominion in the States of the f'hurch. But 'thfterit of thctr;coacipathatfPcc coasislii th4 fait that theyv.revercnced wistrcngtheaed Jn the saprenW soycreign of tke church? a Utte With which he was, already investctl, Thcf were Catholic princes, Tltcy cidold Mm af a? froai, the PoJJo hia temporal aommlo Bnt-jnslbijd Pf doing sotbetfcOhWTriedit, and for this their memory hai been pfec-Ibua.and pfec-Ibua.and gratefully cherished-by Cathblics .everywhere - "Xpwr if iuch Jjp the charocter andthe validity pf the title by which the Sovc- j I !su P:ont(ff relet as ft temporal prjuce, : can, it bo: taken away by tlolence either pit the pari of his .subjects,-of of the spverclgits.pf other Stittesf CcKaluly; not Wlt.hput .injustice," It is. poi' otlr ictentiflii to tpicstibn phy, thing In ; thp abovpj; wp glv(o It Jfsjir whtii It isr vtthj withonl furlliqrcoihment thafl. wo think fa wiil hardly accomplish tte Pbjcct sought If the Pope's temporal sovereignty was conferred bjf the people of Italy,, fiftceu hundred ycars; ago, because they dewred It, cprfalniy the people of Jtaly thday have the right to depose kinjMf thejr will lt,ahd this whole affair resolves itself Into the' question t Da the people, of Italy desire the. temporal sovereignty of Pope .plus thp JSinthf . |
