IRELAND AND THE VATICAN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2322, 28 May 1887, Page 2

IRELAND AND THE VATICAN.

Rome, April 13. Tho discussion alluded to in The Times of April 9th between the Tablet and Archbishop Walsh gives interest, to the. standing of the Monitour de Rome, which there is frequent occasion to quote. The Tablet is right, and tho Moniteur has no official character, and often prints statements which are clearly and notoriously devoid of any inspiration or authority. The Osserv'atore Romano is always employed as the channel of official declarations if such aro to be made, but it is not an official gazette, and it often contains arricles with no official sanction. But neither of these journals would publish anything opposed to the views of the Vatican, and with this in mind the following passage translated from the Monitftir may be read. It is written in reply to The Times on the relation between tho Vatican and Homo Rule : — "Wo regret to see a journal so serious and authoritative affirm gratuitously that the Vatican sympathises with tho revolutionary Irish party, when all tho words and acts of Leo XIIX show abundantly the contrary. The Sovereign Pontiff haslet no occasion escape him for recalling to the Irish Catholics that it is their duty and interest to separate their cause from that of the anarchists, and to limit themselves to tho claiming of their risrhts by a legal and pacific aeitation. In this respect the attitude of tho Vatican has never varied. "The misunderstanding comes, perhaps, from the fact that The Times affects to confound the legal movement sor the legislative independence of Ireland with the revolutionary, anarchical movement. As to the first, the Vatican does intervene while it asserts itself by legal and constitutional action. As to the second, the Vatican has always strongly and energetically reproved it. Ti.is is the truth ; tho one-sided sophisma; jnterossys of Tho Times oblige us to aflirm it." It is in! crestina to know that the Vatican, I according to tho M-mitur, does rmt approve of illegal and revolutionary measures. It would b-5 c]uilly interesting to kn-i.v whether the .Moniteur considers tho boycotting r>nd of police-nun and emercMucy n:on l''g-\K or if it b'lioves that t'i> m >a<;ir«vs of !,ho L3.wuo aro properly di>u:n.vl as " lesr;i.| and constitutional notion. It w 'ill 1 I'o e lifving and useful if tho MonU,vu- w ml 1 to the best of iU lights tell us what *t'ip< of t!)■■>. League Vatican reprove-*, •ni.l w'l-iiro it will consider that its duty to Christi-initv in Ireland requires it to intervene , .. Not. that ono would think "f making the V.itican responsible for Ihe opinions which the Monitcnr nny utter, but one would f:im see where Mouitour's logic and ethics will land it.. Men with common only can hardly distinguish between tho movements which are illegal and vavohitiohary and those which are legal and constiutional, curried on by defiance of law and violntian of public ond iieiwnul rights 'alike. Soma explanation of thoso*.>phisines iiitl-ressßS would at least be amu.-mig.