THE POPE AND THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1735, 10 May 1888, Page 4

THE POPE AND THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.

On the receipt of the first cablegram mentioning the Pope's action re the Home Rule question, the Auckland 8011, with omtncndable forethought, eent a reporter to interview the Catholic clergymen in the city as to their opinion*. Proceeding to the re*idcncs of Bishop Luck the reporter had the following convocation, the preliminaries being left out gishop Luck : Your Grace, a representative of the Bell desires to see you. Archbishop E d woo 3: About what ? BepoUe**: I presume your Grace and Bishop Luck have both seen the Prose Association cablegrams published in the paper, stating that the Pope has condemned the P.an of Osmpaign, and I desire to know what you think of it. Archbishop Redwood : I have no opinion at all, unless it be that I shall wait to see it confirmed. At present 1 do not desire to iay anything about it. Theie things are so often misleading and inacoutato that the wisest course is to suspend one’s judgment about them. Reporter: Well, we thought it rather a strange telegram. Archbishop Redwood : So it is. You see it abates that the Freeman’* Journal draws a disli ction between the Plan of Campaign and the League, when the two are identical. I cannot understand it at all, and, as the cable leads, can make little or nothing of it, It ie not wise to pay too much attention to these telegrams, they are so often contradicted. Bishop Look : That ie the cate with mo. I try to keep myself out of politics altogether. I don't like them, and when I read about them (hoy, as it were, go iu at one ear and ou'.at the other. This one, like His Grace Archbishop Rjdwood, 1 cannot understand, and so far fo I am concerned decline to express an opinion upon it. Reporter: But suppose it is true ? Archbishop Redwood: But why suppose anything about it P PThy not wait till it is explained ? 0a ths faoo of it| as it rcadi, I can express no opinion upon it. The teachings of the Church arc clear on the point. It does not interfere with and has nothing to do with political intrigue and politics, and the Holy See wi;l only interfere in any matter where it trenches upon her province—rel'gun «r.d moral?. The Church would not uphold an immoral sot, and that is only whore she will interfe, e.