Show THE womanizing ROMAN IZING OF AMERICA ABOUT one week ago a cable cablegram gramm from berlin described the organized efforts made to induce the pope of rome to follow distinct national lines in fostering church work among catholic immigrants in america A member of the prussian diet herr Cahen hensly Ca aly is the principal mover in the scheme he Is also the general secretary and controlling spirit of the half political and half bait religious society of st raphael a powerful german catholic organization it was organized ostensibly for the protection of european emigrants but soon acquired branches in all the countries of europe and latterly has established itself in north and south america on the ath of december 1890 there was waa held at lucerne in switzerland an international congress composed of presidents general secretaries and delegates of the archangel raphael societies for the protection of emigrants at this congress the reports from the various european countries i exclusive of the british toles isles showed that roman catholics left annually for the continent of america the vast majority of these came to the united states it was also ascertained that they were largely from the german speaking peoples then it was agreed that a memorial be presented to the pope asking him to endorse a scheme for the better elopement developement dev of catholicity in the different parts of america the memorial says the true church of which your holiness is the supreme head can alone bring these happy results IDS inasmuch as it is the source of all pro grew greas and civilization J then it goes on to state its requirements among which are the formation of congregations according to race lines and the appointment of pastors to correspond this memorial was waa taken to rome by herr Ca hensly and he be in company with sig big landi president of the italian branch of the st raphael society presented it to the pope ca hensly henely had letters endorsing the memorial from the late dr windthorst Wind borst from the cardinal of prague the j archbishop of vienna the belgian cardinals the princes of the austrian j aristocracy and all the german chiefs of the catholic party even premier mercier of quebec sanctioned the memorial the english speaking catholics of the united states were not even consulted on the matter persons who abo have watched closely the workings of the roman church for the past ten years in this country will see nothing mysterious in the new movement to such it was patent that the german element was seeking to control the church and too to use it politically altti on the lot dinst in tat louis the matter was fully illustrated dr phelan a priest of the roman church but a native of the united states said that the hensly henely Ca petition was actually written in st louls louis and that it was the product of the german american priests society of this country father Much lepen lopen the vicar general of the st louis diocese is the president of the society it was organized four years ago ostensibly for arranging the first german catholic congress in chicago a congress that has since assembled annually at different cities of the united states the priests society continues to flourish and to is in direct communion with europe dr phelan to is probably right when he says the document was written in st louis and he might further add that it was written by men who were pushed to the front in this country by the efforts of german clans A study of the situation in wisconsin and in illinois will leave no room to doubt this theory the german catholic element is very strong in st louis in fact that city la is sometimes called the big german 21 until recently german was war taught in the public schools but the irish catholics then joined with the americans americana and had the teach ing of german abolished since then a bad feeling has baa prevailed between the german and irish priests in that city and recent developments will not tend to modify afy it in view of this history of the movement it will be astounding if it receives the final encouragement of the pope the present occupant of the vatican while being peculiarly aggressive gres sive in his polley policy with america has been eminently wise he has been a close student of democracy among the people as ble bis views lately uttered through various european cardinals on the growth and prospects of free government in europe strongly attest and while a proposition that on the face of it promises so much to catholicism might receive his favor able attention A single authoritative protest from america is in enough to kill it absolutely |