WHY THE POPE WILL LEAVE ROME.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1165, 27 June 1884, Page 3

WHY THE POPE WILL LEAVE ROME.

The correspondent of the Times at Paris writes : I have just received the follo-vmg communication ‘ The P’pe hi-sju difie. i to the Emp nor of Aus na by an autograph loiter, the reasons which induce him leave R >nie at a more or less ear ly date. The Pope says in this letter— •* lam wed aware t hat this ■ ecision may have serin is consequences for Christendom, but I am bouo i to carry it out.”

The Tims s correspondent at Rome writes on this sn'jeet: “The reports re yarding the Pope’s possible de. aruue from Rome, which hare fount their way in at the fo'n ign newspaper*, convey a very i xarg - rate 1 impression as to the fac a There is no question of the Pope’s leaving Rene ai this or any other fixed moment ; hut, on the other hand it <:a not he denied that the matter, as a possible eventuality, is again being seriously considered. The dis cussion on the question of removing the seit of the Propaganda to Malta lias involved also that of the removal, in certain eventualities, of the Pope’s residence to that island. In declining to receive Prince Leopold of Bavaria and his w fe, Leo Xlll. has distinctly indicated the line of action which he will follow toward Catholic Sovereigns who, on coming to Rome, do not p»y their visit to him, This can only lead to the comparative isolation of the K’ng of Italy, by its becoming an impossibility for Catholic Sovereigns to visit him in his o pita', or to the complete isolation of the Pone in the Vatican, should they set the Pope’s decision at naught. The possibility of- su hj a reMtlt piesenting ilsilf simultaneously wi'h the consideration of the steps tn he taken for cairying into practical ■ ff ot the removal elsdwh-ri of the central ndinii’isfrativessat of the Pro aganda, has placed the Holy See under the necessity of red Kiting on its position and future. That future includes the p ssibility of leaving Rome, and hence the rumour that the P ipe’s departure is contemplated. This is not the first occasion on wbicb the idea has been cousideied. Pina IX. ent rtaii.e I it for a brief period anterior to 1870. It came up again after the disturbance that attended the removal of body to 8, Loreur,. Bat, what is

more important, it was seriously i-ensued at the first sitti ig of the Inst 0 mnnive ; and it was said that the Pope, .In-uGir dinalPecci, individuilly favored it The decision then taken, howeve , was to wait .until all means for the en'ertainmeu. of a possible situation— * modus vivendi—vrero exhausted. It is now considered at the Vatutin that not only has no progress been made to that end, nut that events have demonstrated, instead, mat ihe Pope whether as regards his indep ndeuoe or his dignity, is in a worse position, and consequently the idea has again arisen that some extreme resolution, such as that of departure, is rie lessiry. 1 ’