# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1914_S426
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

4²26 Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches.

zwei thpische Aussagen aus unsern Wechselblättern an. Der Presbyterian
Banner gesteht zu: Pius X. war kein bedeutender Papst; besonders ver⸗
liere er bei einem Vergleich mit seinem geriebenen Vorgänger, Leo XIII.
„He was a reactionary against modern learning, and never understood
the temper of bis time. He thought the exereise of intellectual liberty
and the progress of human thought could be arrested by papal encye-
licals, and had aà mediaeval faith in the ecclesiastical authority that has
long since lost its teeth and terror, and now only excites ridieule at its
futility and folly.“ Doch müsse man seinen Charakter hochschätzen: his
purity and piety, bhis humility and sincerity, his sympathy with the
poor and his simple goodness. The beauty of his character and the good-
ness of his life drew his people to him in deep devotion, and he was more
friendly in his relation to Protestants than most popes bave been. Many
American Protestants were admitted to his presence, and were most.
kindly received. They dressed him up in gorgeous paraphernalia in his
death, but all these are empty vanities: his Christian faith and his life
of goodness are his true honor and monument.“ Der Christian Church-
man (epistopalisch, Vertreter der liberalen, antirömischen Richtung) betont
auch die reaktionäre Politik des verstorbenen Papstes: As pope he was
but the catspaw of the reactionary element in the College of Cardinals.
The policies of the papacy as announced in Pius X's encyclicals have béeen
appallingly reactionary and unstatesmanlike. The breach with France,
the alienation of Portugal and Spain, the deplorahle and persistent at⸗
tempt to erush out all independent thought among Roman Catholies, to
fight the progress of modern ideas, modern science, modern discovery,
with the mediaeval bludgeons of tyranny and enforced ignorance, and
the consequent alienation of the very elass on whom the prestige and
real permanent power of the papac. must rest, are conspicuous reésults
of the kind of statesmanship for which his advisers have made Pius X
nominally responsible.“ Nur nominell sei für diese Entfremdung der
Gelehrtenwelt und Verdummung des römischen Klerus Pius X. verant⸗
wortlich zu halten. Seine Persönlichkeit habe höchst schätzenswerte Eigen⸗
schaften gehabt. He leaves the memory of a gracious and venerable
figure, Wwhose loss will be felt with a sense of personal bereavement by
hundreds of thousands. Pius X was in his personality a gentle and win-
ning servant of God.“ Also blind, stockblind ist, wie der Preshyterian
Banner, so auch der CRurchmam in seiner Beurteilung des römischen Payst⸗
tums. Die einzige Entschuldigung für solche Aussprüche ist eine umfassende
Unkenntnis des Papsttums auf seiner dogmatischen Seite. Die Anerken⸗
nung der Liebe und Toleranz, die Pius X. gegen die Protestanten, beson⸗
ders gegen die Protestanten Amerikas, gehegt haben soll, wird manchem
Jesuiten ein befriedigtes Schmunzeln abgewinnen. G.

II. Ausland.

Eine Woche vor Ausbruch der Feindseligkeiten zwischen Ssterreich⸗
Ungarn und Serbien enthielt der „Christenbote“, ein in Stuttgart heraus⸗
gegebenes populär ⸗christliches Sonntagsblatt, folgende Darstellung der
Sachlage, die durch die Ermordung des Erzherzogs und seiner Gemahlin
durch den serbischen Verschwörer geschaffen war: „Ein Bild unglaublicher