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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1888, Page 15

The Moniteur de Rome in the course of an article on " Leo XIII. and Ireland," says : " In all that concerns Ireland, the attitude of Leo XIII. has never varied. He has always carefully avoided interference with the political and constitutional question, properly socalled, as outside of his province. Home Kule, for example, the Pope neither condems nor approves. With that tender and fatherly affection which he entertains for all his children, especially the unfortunate, Leo XIII. has been able to follow with sympathetic and benevolent eyes she efforts which Ireland is making to reconquer peacefully a portion greater or less of her legislative independence ; but while the agitation is conducted on purely political ground, the Pope as such, does not interfere. But when in the stress and excitement of the battle, the combatants exceed permitted limits, and endanger the observance of the superior law of morality and justice which none may blamelessly transgress, then it is not merely the Pope's right, but his duty to intef ere." . . . The Moniteur says in conclusion : " It is only in remaining faithful to that ideal of justice and virtue which the great patriot, O'Connell, maintained in his time, and which Pope Leo XIII. has not ceased to uphold in our own, that Ireland will pieserte the universal sympathy which goes out to her cause, and that she will bring to a uiumphant end ber lawful struggle for just rights."