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Show MEETING 0F ' ARCHBISHOPS APPEAL TO POPE IN BEHALF OF CHRISTIAN BROTHERS. Archbishop Riordan to Take Appeal to Rome - as Representative of American Hierarchy. At the annual meeting of the Catholic Cath-olic archbishops of the Ui.ited States, held in Washington last week, it was unanimously agreed that the hierarchy hier-archy of this country should support the Brothers of the Christian Schools in their efforts to have Latin and Greek retained in the curricula of their schools in this country. Word has been received re-ceived from Bishop Byrne of Nashville, who went to Rome ti champion the cause of the Christian Brothers before the Vatican authorities, and who has now returned, but no written report has come from him. An appeal from the Christian Brothers who have been deposed from their places at the heads of colleges throughout the country.' including in-cluding some from New York. St. Louis, Chicago, Washington and Rock Hill, Md., asking the assistance of the Archbishops, Arch-bishops, was favorably received. Some time ago the Archbishops authorized au-thorized Bishop Byrne to speak for them at Rome, in behalf of the Christian Chris-tian Brothers, and they also signed a petition to the Pope, asking that he reverse re-verse the decision of Brother Gabrielle-Marie, Gabrielle-Marie, head of the order. Todar the Archbishops made the plea of the deposed de-posed Brcithe'S the basis of another appeal to the Pope. They had found nothing, after close examination, to change their view in the matter, which was that the Brothers in this country should be allowed to adapt their schools to the other schools of the country-and continue to teach Latin and Greek. Consequently, the Archbishops reaffirmed reaf-firmed their former petition, and again requested the Pope to favorably answer an-swer the appeal of the Christian Brothers Broth-ers of the United States from the ultimatum ulti-matum f Brother Gabrielle-Marie forbidding' for-bidding' them to teach the classics. Archbishop Riordan, being about to leave for Rome, was commissioned as the special representative of the Amsr- i ica.n hierarchy to bear the message to the Pope. It. was .also reso'ed to request re-quest Brother .Gabrielle-Marie to restore re-store to their posts of duty in. the United States the Brothers deposed from their positions at the heads of colleges. col-leges. Strong- feeling was manifested, and the Archbishops acted with' unanimity. una-nimity. They thought the deposition of Brothers and their assignment to work in foreign lands was a distinct blow to the case of Catholic education in America and to all Catholic interests inter-ests in this country. They rejected the proposition that the Brothers should be permitted to continue the teaching of the classics for twenty years, and insisted that no restrictions of this kind j should apply to them. While the tcne I of the letter will be most respectful, it will be strong, and it is evident the Archbishops have taken a determined stand. The contest over the teaching of the classics in these schools has been going on for two years, practically ever since the election of Brother Gabrielle-Marie as the general of the order. The Brothers Broth-ers in this country are a unit on the subject, and, although inroads were made in their ranks by the recalling to Paris of their most prominent leaders, the. rank and flip- have stood faithful. and the teaching of. the classics continues. con-tinues. An appeal was taken to Rome, and, being so strongly backed by the hierarchy, hier-archy, the Brothers hope for a successful success-ful issue, and also , to have their old leaders restored to them. The last to go to Paris was Brother Fabrician of Washington. Through the efforts of the Washington alumni of St. John's College, formerly presided over by Brother Fabrician, the alumni of the Brothers' schools throughout the country coun-try are writing to help their former teachers. The Brothers have a large number of excellent colleges, thousands of pupils and teachers," and millions of dollars in property. They declare their schools .will be ruined if the decree of their general is enforced, as it will be if the appeal to Rome fails. Another important matter discussed today was the advisability of continuing continu-ing the Catholic Indian schools. It was believed bv some that no more money could be obtained from congress, and in that event the schools would prove too 1 great a burden, on the church, which was already straining every nerve to keep its schools up to the standard. After Af-ter hearing both sides, the board agreed to continue tne wore ioi aiuJiuei jew, even if the church bore the entire burden bur-den 'of the schools. In order to supply the loss of government govern-ment funds, it was agreed that all the Bishops having large Catholic or negro populations in their dioceses should be requested to make special appeals wherever they might travel throughout the country for the Indian and negro schools. Funds raised in this manner will be consolidated with those raised by the regular contributions, and distributed dis-tributed by the committee on, Indian and negro schools, which is composed of Cardinal Gibbons. Archbishops Cor-rigan, Cor-rigan, Ryan and Kain. The petition which Cardinal Gibbons presented to congress last session from the Archbishops, on which no congressional congres-sional action was taken, was not discussed, dis-cussed, but it is said no further, action in this direction will be taken. Mon signor Stephan, who is head of the bureau bu-reau of Catholic Indian schools, presented pre-sented his annual report. The Pope's letter on Americanism was briefly discussed, but no action was ",.. it A rr-hliisVinn PharMlle. LCi.iVt.-Jl. 1L. ........ ' " ' I' Apostolic Delegate to the Philippines and Cuba, being absent, no matters affecting af-fecting the interests of the church in these islands were brought before the Archbishops. Several other routine matters were disposed of, and the Archbishops Arch-bishops adjourned until next October. All the Archbishops were present today except Archbishops Chapelle, Feehan and Hennessey. |