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The first Christmas this in which a Roman Senate has sat in Rome since the old-fashioned Roman Senates went under, -- or since they "went up," if we take the expressive language of our Chicago friends.
And Pius IX. is celebrating Christmas with an uncomfortable look backward, and an uncomfortable look forward, and an uncomfortable look all around. It is a suggestive matter, this Italian Parliament sitting in Rome. It suggests a good deal of history and a good deal of prophecy.