Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . rfere, butwhich he refused to admit as other thantransitory and impious. He was quickto see that in the march of events in half-a-dozen European countries there wereincessant menaces to the temporal powerof the Church ; and, while he opposed
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . rfere, butwhich he refused to admit as other thantransitory and impious. He was quickto see that in the march of events in half-a-dozen European countries there wereincessant menaces to the temporal powerof the Church ; and, while he opposed ingraceful and dignified language the iionjyossumiis of the papacy, he now andthen, in his more familiar conversations,inveiglied with all the vigor of a politicianagainst the enemies of the Church. AVhen he heard that the Italian Parlia-ment had proclaimed Victor EmmanuelKing of Italy, in 18G1, and had declaredthat Rome was the capital of the newkingdom, although the court still re-mained in Turin, Pius IX. declared thathe could not, without gravely woundinghis conscience, make any alliance withmodern civilization. Shortly after thathe, in one of his allocutions, condemnedthat same modern civilization, which does not even prevent heretics fromtaking public office, and which opensCatholic schools to their children. In EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 409. THE ].A,ST BENKIMCTION OF IOPK ilUS IX. 410 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 1864, he published a syllabus, in whichthe Church fiilmiuatecl against the wholeDemocratic theoiy, and opposed cate-gorically and with the most tremendousenergy every doctrine of the French Rev-olution and of the little revolutionswhich had grown out of it, and almostevery achievement of modern sciencewhich had led to Liberalism in thoughtand action. In 1867 he published an encyclical let-ter against the Italian government, andcondemned all the laws voted b^y thenational parliament for secularizing theestates of the Church. He declaredagainst the increased faciliti
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