The Papacy and Russia

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 6, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 14.

The Papacy and Russia

A CABLEGRAM from Rome, dated January 8, conveys the following intelligence:—

Rome, January 8.—The friendly relations between the Papacy and Russia are more intimate than ever. The pope has caused instructions to be sent to the Polish hierarchy not to encourage any opposition to Russia. The pope is convinced that the new year brings a decisive crisis on the continent. His address to the cardinals reflects his keen preoccupation with the political situation and he holds himself ready to make an appeal to the nations when the day of complications shall come. He is finishing at this moment an encyclical on the perils of the situation in Europe.

Leo XIII. is playing a deep game for the religious control of Europe, and each move that is made upon the great political chessboard is in his favor. How long will it be ere Babylon will say, "I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow"? In other words, How long will it be ere the Papacy is again made the censor of morals and corrector of heretics? Prophecy declares it will come, and the logic of events is conclusive in that direction.