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Show I THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. . . i f 91 asifnor O'Coanell on the feohool '- Question, , Baltimore, Md., May 14 Monsignor p'Connall, president of the American I'ollegp at Rome, after a six months' stay in this country, left Friday for Europe stopping on his way to visit Archbishop Ryan in Philadelphia, and Bishop Wigger, at Newark. Before leaving, Monsignor O'Connell talked about the strength of the church in this country alluded to the school question, bo saitf: . . "I do not sco why an amicable settic-, settic-, mont of tho school question could not ' bo arrived at. In the Inst plenary council coun-cil of the church of tho United States, all the bishops had to say was that the failhfull should ho provided with correct cor-rect and impraved schools. The Catholic Cath-olic Episcopal in the United States is a very prudent and conservative body, and! there is no doubt whatever that they will know how to handle tho question ques-tion in accordance with tho best interests inter-ests of the church and the country. Ono of tho troubles is that tho titteranco of many irresponsible persons aro taken as the utterances of the church." Dr. O'Connell said that there was uo likelihood whatever of the pono leaving Rome. On this point the Catholic Mirror Mir-ror yesterday says: "We are in a position to say upon tho highest authority, author-ity, in fact upon, the authority of the popo's own own public expression of his inteutions, that Leo XIII. nevor at any time considered 'the question of abandoning Rome,' for the simple reason, rea-son, as far as bo is concerned, there never has been any such question. There may havo been a timo thoro still may bo when the pope would be iorced out of Rome, but that ho never entertained tho Idea of abandoning tho Eternal City does not admit of a doubt." |