THE POPE AND THE POWERS. A Ref .rence to the Religious Peace With Prussia.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 210, 9 July 1887, Page 3

THE POPE AND THE POWERS. A Ref .rence to the Religious Peace With Prussia.

The Pope, in an allocution yesterday, referred to the religious peace with Prussia, which the Pope said he had made every effort to attain. Continuing the Pope said : " Thanks to the equitable and pacific sentiments of Emperor William and his counsellors, the Prussian Government removed the more serious inconveniences and then accepted the various practical conditions of peace by which some of the former laws against the Church have been repealed and others mitigated. Something remains to be done, but we must rejoice at what we have obtained, and above all in regard to the free actions of the Pope in the government) of the Church in Prussia. God grant that Italy, which is peculiarly dear to us, may share the spirit of peace with which we are animated toward all nations. We earnestly desire that Italy should put aside her unhappy differences with the papacy, whose dignity is violated chiefly by the conspiracy of sects. The means of obtaining concord would be objected to by no power in the enjoyment of full and real liberty, while, far from injuring Italy, it would powerfully contribute to her prosperity." _^