THE POPE AND THE ROMAN QUESTION.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1930, 30 December 1874, Page 3

THE POPE AND THE ROMAN QUESTION.

The Stakdard says the Pope's side of'the iKotnau.questioii <haa ; ral ways, seemed, and still sterns,- to us a ; rauoli simaler matter; jrhe destruction of tlie temporal power way he ■ happiest; stroke of : fortune-that for, many centurii'S. A great da.ng'T and a grave and eoiistant, scatidal' were thereby removed ■- which would have' become .only , greater and graver.astirnp wore oil.. l'pr.what.is: the -'present aspect" of Europe>and whatls likely, to. •be I aspect .for f ,maiiy f years }j(> - 'coraepilt i son e, of .'ae ri mo nio us ly. --di a - polltipaly.theologjcali,social, . and even eth'icai, ci tijbined with an array of expectant, if ! just at this moment unein- -V ployed.' 'armed - forces such'-as- the world, jias never before ,■ 'It .is morally,at .-.is.- almost .iphysically'ji impost 'sible that. such a,sfate of;affairs/should not'end in jopeiijconfl ct.^Whetftjiial culminating moment arrives: the situation of small thoi extreme.;! v. They ii will' side; and they :i will : probably be 1 crushed,; between. hammer and anvil. In such a state of things'what* c mid' a' temporal Pope do P ! lie 'result would-'probably be jthatthe Papacy would d) precisely what:; it has done on' all cognate occasions, and. indeed ivliat all temporal Governments d 0,.; jit would consult what it thought its own interests. But Mistaken 11 calculations are ;not.unoften .made, and the Popes would hive-io and'-trim', and' ;as worldly,. Popes have done before, with , 'all tlie consequent scandal to 'their 'spiritual subjects which history records. The time will yet'come when liomaa ;Catholies themselves will'as little .'think :of,'deniandi.ng that the Pope shall'be a.' Zing, as-.they now do of 'asking that he : 'should, have a .Queen Consort.