POPE PIUS AND THE CONCORDAT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 179, 2 August 1904, Page 2

POPE PIUS AND THE CONCORDAT.

VATICAN AND STATE IN CONFLICT. A BISHOP'S STIPEND STOPPED, (Received August 1, 10.10 p.m.) PARIS, August 1. The Bishop of Dijon's stipend has been stopped, on trie ground that h* had committed a bioach of the Concordat, inasmuch as he h«4 gone to Koine at the Pojie's summons without first obtaining tJho pennlgsiOfrot the Government. Official correspondence " which has been published shows that the Holy Office claimed the right to summer* one bishop to answer Imputation* against his moral character, and to send exclusive ecclesiastical i list ructions to another. The latter case Is represented' as standing apart from current politics. M. Delcauso, Minister for Foreign Affairs, declares that the complaints against Cardinal Merry del Vol are of many years' standing, and that It is impossible to mistake the character of the present hasty summons. • THE PAPAL STAND. WILL NOT RECOGNISE OHOANIO ARTICLES. (Received August 1, 11.59 p.m.) ROME, August L • The Pope declines to be bound fay the organic articles which Napoleon, without consulting the Church, promulgated in connection with the Concordat. SUPPRESSING ANOTHER ORDBB, THH SULPICIANS BBOljQirT INTO LINE. ~ (Received August 2, 0.57 «-in.) PARIS, August i. M. Combes, Premier, at the In- » stance of President Loubet, baa signed an order for the suppression of the Order of Sulpicians at Dijon, on the ground that they are at • the bottom ot all the trouble in the diocese. Previously the Sulpicians were exempted from the operation of the religious orders suppression maassures on the ground that they .were exclusively devoted to the training of priests.. . ■!• FEELING IN ROUE. London Daily News Rome corret* pondent, writing to his paper some weeks ago, said : Italy, and especially Rome, thinks now of only; one thing, the trouble between the Vrntt- ; can and France. Cardinal Merry del Val gets the whole blame, which in this case is Just, as he seems to tje the chief, if not only, offender. His • situation is rendered much worse by the fact that his colleagues ot the Sacred College, among whom thera are prominent men who,have occupied high positions. H»,itHplorflacy< .such as Rampolla and the two Vannutelli brothers, Agtoardi and Satolli, Ferrota and TalianJ, not 'Ofllj; were not consulted on the grave ttsp taken by the Secretary of State, hut some of them had suggested a Way out which, while saving the dignity of the Vatican and safeguarding , what they consider its rights, would have avoided the present conflict.

The suggestion consisted in |«ctttlatiiig an interview between the. Pope And President Loutjet, while the Utter was a guest of the King of Italy, sanding at the a&me time a, not* to all the CathoKc Powers in wKieh the Holy See would have explained that the prohibition for Catholic rulers to visit the Quirinei is limited to Sovereigns, as Presidents ot Republics, being elected, are dependc*t on the will of ttwlr Parliaments, with the desires or 'which they must comply, indepenaVt ontly of their personal fssHiww' This project was even sutfnutsd to the French Ambassador, M. Nisard, who seemed to approve, but mean- ,■ while Cardinal Merry del -Val took affairs into bis own band* and has brought matters to Weir promt pass, A DIALECTICAL PUZZLE, •» The samo Journal's Parts reflreseft tative, writing, op the same date, said :—Since the days when;' schoolmen tagged tuoir brains over the question, How many' angels can stand (or was it dance t). ou the point ot a needle 1 there' Tla* been no such puzple as that which at this moment exercises the Journalists and the diplomatists ot Paris. ' ' ■ ' When is an Ambassador sot an Ambassador? That is the awful riddle. Or, put in another way, Has M. Nisard been recalled, or iff he only on leave? "He has been recalled," shout the Temps *l»d the. Aurore and La Petite Republlque, and l'Humanite—the entire "Bloc," in fact. "He Is only on;' leave,'* shouts the Oaulols. "M. Nisei* will never return to Boms," retort the former. "There's nothing to prevent him," the clericals reply; •he is still our Ambassador at we Vatican." The office of Ambassador, to the Vatican has practically ban* suppressed," say the oracles of th» •Bloc." "But the Ambassadorial duties have not been exclaim the clericals ; "they are. dla» charged during the Ambassador's; leave' by M. de Courcel, Secretary, to our Embassy at the Vatican. If. Nisard. though not ftt hta post, it rtilt in active service." - ' Hero, however, the Clericals give themselves away. M. Nißard's . alleged substitute is no substitute as all; he is a "locum tenons"- ««• out any post to hold. .^ The Nuncio in Paris, Cardinal lior* ennelli, announces that he ignore* H. Nizwd's recall. But what if "ta petit Pero Combes" should as quietly'ignore Mgr. Lorenzolli, and treat him like any ordinary foreign resident in Paris ?