CONFIRMATIVE of what is said in another column from our European correspondent, is the following from a Rome despatch of November 10, appearing in the New York World. After stating that the Vatican delay had been with the hope that the French officials would at last come to terms with the church authorities regarding the situation of the church in France, “Pius X. has finally decided to continue his policy of resistance and to make the French church absolutely independent from the state, and supported entirely by its own resources.” That certainly is good news if it is undertaken as a principle and not as antagonistic to the French Government, but on the very face of it the latter is the case. The only true Gospel way is for the church to be absolutely free from the state in all countries, at all times, and under all circumstances, at whatever cost. The law of separation passed by the French parliament is to be absolutely ignored, and yet the priests who are entitled to pensions and allowances from the government will be permitted to accept them as long as the French Government consents to pay. Wherever bishops or priests have not acted in full harmony with the Vatican, they will be dealt with. Several French bishops, it is said, have been asked to resign and forward to Rome their resignations, because of their failure to comply strictly with the orders of the pope in the present crisis of the church in France. Pius X. designs to make the church in France perfectly submissive, and thinks by this that he will be able to bring the French Government to terms.