Show POPES POWERS duke of has stirred upa up a hornets nest new york jan 10 the rev A fisanotti Fasan otti D D now A resident of new york but formerly chaplain to the duke of norfolk in england sneaking of the duke and the scene in rome attendant upon his address to the pope in which he expressed ahe hope that the temporal power be returned to the holy see during the new century said 1 I am afraid that the duko has stirred up a hornets nest I 1 am an italian myself and having resided in rome for a long I 1 know well the susceptibilities of the italians in regard to any utterance which might advocate or imply the destruction of united italy the speech of the duke at the reception of the english pilgrims at the vatican coming as it does from a prominent member of the british aristocracy cannot but excite their feelings and I 1 should not bo surprised it violence was to be offered the english visitors to the eternal city on this account as was the case of the french pilgrims in 1891 up to the present time the italians have always considered the english people and their government in sympathy with the efforts they have made toward the independence and unification of their country which could not possibly have been obtained without the disappearance of the temporal power of the pop birst now said the speaker the pope has insisted that foreign prelates pr elates and prominent catholics should take up the advocating and defending of his rights to temporal power and the recent utterances of archbishop ireland and of cardinal vaughan amply testify to this fact personally the duke Is not concerned if the pope has lost hia temporal power he has always been an earnest admirer of the italian people ana of their efforts at unity and in ills present visit to rome at tho head atthe english pilgrimage Is a kind of reparation for bis and the english catholics neglect during the holy year in the whole course of which no english representative of the catholic church visited and the pope As to the effect of a of tho rights of th to temporal power it 1 hard to inako any prediction perhaps was tee conclusion of tho A fisanotti Fasan otti the pope wishes that bome eort of foreign pressure bo exercised en the Italian government to maat it the dominion 0 pt least the city ct rome to tho i holy see it la persistently rumored in rome and abroad that the outcome of the present will be the definition of the necessity of the temporal power of the pope as a dogma ot the roman catholic faith and in that case all catholics will be obliged to admit the doctrine and do their utmost for the return to the pope 0 a temporal sovereignty english catholics however do not at present concern themselves very much about such matters unless what I 1 hardly think possible the utterances of the duke ot norfolk in rome might begin to stir TIP english public opinion one thine Is certain however and that Is that leo XIII will be very much pleased that his pet wishes have found an echo in the words of the most prominent member of the english nobility |