THE POPE'S ALLOCUTION.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2889, 20 May 1878, Page 2

THE POPE'S ALLOCUTION.

London, March 30.—The Times' Rome special says: Pope Leo's allocution, de livered at the Consistory on Thursday, gives the Italians general satisfaction.* The allusioil to the Church's captivity is very mild. His Holiness expresses no intention to struggle for the recovery of his temporalities. The main stress of the allocution is laid on the relations which it is intended should exist between the Pope and Cardinals. The Sacred Colleges it typyfies as the Council of Seventy called by Moses lo be his assistants and advisers in the government of the people of Israel. He wishes the Cardinals to be his bystanders and fellow laborers, and lest it should be thought that merely unmeaning words fell from his lips, lie expresses all the ro> liance he puts on their wise council, trusting and begging that it may never fail him. It was the dearest wisli of the Council of Trent that the administration of the universal church should rest on the Council of the Cardinals. J his, says the Tiimes' correspondent is a clear hint of a return to the "old Constitution of the Church and the reference to the Council of Treut seems plainly intended as a repeal of the Act of the Vatican Council, which by declaring Pope Pius IX infallible entitled him to dispense with the advice of either College or Council. To the Vatican Synod itself, to the pro 1 clamation of the dogma of infallibility or of that of the immaculate conception and to all actvS of Pius IX. except the reconstitution of the Scottish hierarchy, no allusion whatever is made in the allocution. The acts of the deceased Pope have been sanctioned by the Church and must stand, but Pops Leo seems to think least said about them is soonest mended. By his choice of Cardinal Di Patrio, one of the youngest and decidedly most liberal of the Cardinals, as Camerlengo the Pope confirms the hope of those conciliatory views which were always thought to animate him, and which were expected to actuate his policy in his dealing with civil powers.