p. 96 | The Pope | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 7, 1871

The Pope.

The dogma of the Roman Catholic bishops in this country that it is impossible for the pope to be a subject, is in a way to receive a practical decision. In the Italian Lower Chamber, on Saturday last, a committee reported in favor of a bill by which the Supreme Judiciary is empowered to authorize its officials to enter the papal residence (that is, to execute processes in the pope's house as in the dwellings of other subjects). Minister Lanza opposed it, and said that the guarantee of the pope's dwelling was necessary "to tranquilize the Catholic conscience, and prevent accusations of bad faith." The question was left open for every man to vote according to his own convictions, and adjourned till Monday. A report having obtained currency at Florence that a league had been formed in Belgium to organize an armed expedition in defense of the pope's temporal power, with branches in several countries, Minister Lanza stated, in reply to a question on the subject, that the rumors were at least of a doubtful nature, and that any movement of the sort would be promptly repressed. Our opinion is that the Italian Government is able and determined to make the pope keep quiet, and to make his adherents mind their own business.—Independent.