Father Curci has submitted. As we mentioned last week, those
who do not know Rome believed that Leo XIII. had summoned the celebrated Jesuit in order to signify his agreement with his opinions, but it is now clear that he called him only to receive his submission. In his letter to the Pope, the Father, whose offence, it will be remembered, was a published opinion that the Papacy ought to reconcile itself to Italy, and forget the Temporal Power, says he "comes and casts himself at your Holiness's feet, in order to declare that he adheres fully and unreservedly, with heart and mind, to all the teachings and prescriptions of the Catholic Church, and especially to all that the Sovereign Pontiffs, and quite recently your Holiness in the Encyclical, teach as to the Temporal Power of the Holy See." It will be observed that Father Curci does not in so many words recant the opinions maintained in his book, but it would be difficult to draw up a submission more ample, especially as in the Encyclical which he accepts " with- heart and mind," the Pope classed the civil dominion among the " rights " of the Church which could never be abandoned.
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