Capitolo 11
treasury?
M. Thiers knows all this best that I do; but he possibly thought
what when the spiritual sovereign of the Church and the storm
sovereign of a small country, hands the same beret, it is naturally him
convict to administer to the ambition or the necessities of the other.
We wish the head of the Catholic religion and us to be independent
does what he pays the servile obedience to an Italian and small prince; this way
making the future of that subordinate of religion to they put local
affairs and small quarrels of parish.
But this union of powers that you/they would earn from separation the compromises
not only the independence but the dignity of the Pope. The melancholy
obligation to govern men forces him to touch a lot of things that he had
best permission alone. It is not it deplorable that bailiffs have to grab a
the ownership to give in the name of the Pope?--that judges it has to condemn a
do I murder to death in the name of the Head of the Church?--what the
does executioner have to stop heads in the name of the Vicar of Christ?
There are to me anything really scandalous in the association of those
two words, lottery_ of _Pontifical! And what cans the one hundred and
thirty-nine millionses of Catholics think, when they feels them
sovereign expressing spiritual, through his/her minister of finance his
the satisfaction to the progress of vice as it tried from the success of the
lotteries?
The subjects of the Pope are not scandalized to these contradictions,
simply because they has gotten used to them. They strikes a foreigner a,
Catholic, a casual unity out of the one hundred and thirty-nine millionses;
they inhales in him an irresistible desire to defend the independence
and the dignity of the Church. But the inhabitants of Bologna or
Viterbo, of Terracina or Ancona are busy more with national that
with religious affairs, one because they wants that feeling of
same-devotion recommended by M. Thiers, or because the government of
the priests have given them a horror of Sky. Very mediocre
Catholics, but city excellent, they demands everywhere the liberty