Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE” REVIEW p «r— Universal Church. In a bold statement that won the admiration of all Christians, he clearly laid down the principles that all Christian Churches must follow if they are to return to the true fold; and more recently he ended the imprisonment of sixty years by regaining the temporal sovereignty of the Holy See. It is our sincere hope that the Almighty will grant many years of service to this illustrious vice-gerent that we may enjoy the blessing of the wisdom and zeal of one whom history has already marked as Pius the Great. The signing of the treaty and concordat by the representatives of Italy and the Vatican marks one of the greatest steps towards international amity in the history The End of the of the world. The representatives of a temporal power have recognized the necessity of independent sovereignty for the head of the Universal Church and have granted this in a pact remarkable for the accord that it signified. Formal ratification of these documents has yet to take place, it is true, but as the main items contained therein have been broadcast to the world by our indefatigable news-gathering agencies, some comment is appro- priate. By the settlement the position of the Popes is clarified and the bugbear of inter- national diplomacy, the ‘Roman Question, is ended for ever. Up to the time of the treaty, there were two sovereigns in Rome—the government and the Papacy— neither of whom recognized the priority of the other. The reason for this situation was the unwillingness of the government to grant any measure of temporal sovereign- ty to the Holy See and the inability of the head of a body as international and cos- mopolitan as the Catholic Church to be subject to a civil ruler. To the overtures of the government, made throughout fifty-nine years of voluntary imprisonment, the answer of the Popes was always a dignified “Мот possumus'' until the far reaching agreement of this February was made. The danger of being shackled to a civil power in the manner by which the Patriarchs of Constantinople were tied to the Byzantine Tee and the Archbishops of Canterbury to the British crown was too great to risk. The concessions in the treaty are large in principle rather than in size. The Pope receives temporal dominion over the smallest principality on the face of the globe— but receives absolute freedom in his international actions. The concordat which is complementary to the treaty is perhaps of greater importance to the people of Italy, for by it the anti-clerical measures of past governments are repealed and the Church is granted its rightful position: that of a ‘‘free Church in a free state. Sacramental matriage is recognized, religious teaching is re-established in the schools, and the right of the Church to govern herself according to canon law is granted. That the Church has gained immeasurably in prestige by this regaining of power none can venture to doubt. We do not believe that this aspect of the question can be better summed up than in the words of Professor Carlton Hayes: “Роре Pius ХІ has demonstrated that the Papacy of the twentieth century appreciates the modern changed conditions of politics, economics, culture and society, that it does not dream of a political theocracy or content itself with negative protests, that it in- sists only on such temporal power for itself as is strictly necessary to render it inde- pendent of any country, and that outside of the tiny Vatican state it insists only on such rights for the Catholic Church as shall make it a free spiritual agency in the civil society of modern nations.”’ Roman Question. {2}