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Show THE LETTER "AD ANGLOS." Abbot Gasquet Gives Some Unpublished Unpub-lished History Concerning It. During the recent visit of the Mgr. Gasquet to this country he gave an informal talk to the seminarians of ; Dunwoodic seminary. New York, and gave a brief account of some unpublished unpub-lished history in connection with the famous letter of Leo XIII on Anglican c-ders. The Abbot spoke in part as fo'lows: ; "My first step in the investigation brought me to the Secretariat of Bulls. ! I supposed thai the question of the va- 1'dity of the orders must have come up j thortly after t h? break with Rome, and j sc. I began to examine the pontifical j bulls of Pius IV. "I found fifty-two volumes of bulls. After reading carefully five1 volumes, I l.ecame curious to know what was in the last one, just as one might look at the last chapter of a novel. Then, too, I thought that by working from both ends of the fifty-two volumes I might chance on the particular one I desired more quickly. "I took up the fifty-second volume j and when half way through it I found the bu'l of Pius IV treating of Angli- J o.-.n orders.- In this document two clessew of ministers are Very "clearly j d.stinguished. In the first class are those who were ordained according. to the old Catholic ordinal, then lapsed into heresy, and again returned to communion com-munion with Rome. The orders of such ministers were not renewed. . "In the second class are those who n-ceived orders in heresy. When such ministers applied for admission into the priesthood of Rome their orders v.ere conferred from the beginning." "Now a document of much importance import-ance naturally suggested that there must be other papers bearing on ,the . same subject. I went to the Secretariat .-of .-of Briefs. There I found a pontifical i brief of Pius IV explaining etill fur- I ther the principles laid down in the j bt.ll. From here. I went to the general trchives of the Vatican and there' dis-J 1 covered three sets of documents of the si. me period. "In the first set was a series of questions ques-tions proposed to the holy see for set-t set-t ement; in the second set these same questions were put in the regular form fcr use-with the congregations, and in the third set these same questions weie f.md with their answers, and in every i case a distinction was made. On my I way home to Kngland I stopped off at l ouai, where my order has a monas- I lory and college. There after three j pays of work I came up5n the exact opy of the bull of Pius IV. Added to this document was a statement by Cardinal Car-dinal Pole, the pope's legate in Eng- ; lnd, that he had promulgated this bull to all the. bishops of England. "When 1 got this I returned to Rome and presented this evidence to Leo. He then appointed the famous commission com-mission on angiican orders, consisting cf all the cardinals, of the holy office, fourteen , in number, under the presidency presi-dency of the pope himself. "For this commission Duchesne had written a long disquisition on the consecration con-secration of Barlow by Parker in England, Eng-land, and for the sake of argument I conceded the validity of the consecration. consecra-tion. 1 then went on to prove that the dtcision of the holy see from the very beginning was that those ordained in heresy were not ordained at all. and when they applied for admission to the priesthood of Rome the orders must be conferred from the beginning. x "I also proved that the heretics in their adaptations of th? old Catholic missal in 1549, 1532 and 1GH2. respectively respect-ively had excluded every word that conveyed the idea of sacrifice. Priesthood Priest-hood means sacrifice, and without it there can b? no priestly office. As they bad excluded in their official manuals every allusion to sacrifice, how could they have the intention of conferring priestly orders? How, therefore, could ctders conferred m heresy be consid-eied consid-eied valid by Rome? "The decision of the" cardinals was unanimous against the validity of Anglican An-glican orders, and the pope appointed me to draft -the now celebrated letter 'Ad Anglos,' in which the stand of the church with regard to Anglican orders was clearly defined." Priest's Life Work Ended. Rev. James J. Dougherty, pastor of the Home for Homeless Children, Mount Loretto, N. Y., died recently at that place. He was a native of New York City, born 1849. Sixteen years ago, on the death of the Rev. Father Drumgoolc, the founder foun-der of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin, Rev. Father Doughterty was appointed superior to continue the work of the founder. Here he has since labored, and has left as lasting monuments to his zeal and energy the beautiful church of St. Joachim -and Anne, an asylum for blind girls, a trade school for boys, and the magnificent St. Elizabeth home for girls, all situated situ-ated on the square mile of territory known as Mt. Loretto. In 1800 Father Dougherty was hon- ' ored by Georgetown University with j ' the degree of doctor of laws, ae a fitting fit-ting recognition of his liicrary labors and his practical philanthropy. i During his incumbency as. superior 1 of' the mission he also assumed the management of a home for colored children at Rye, Westchester county, i N. T. About four years ago he established, estab-lished, under the auspices of the St. Vincent de Paul society, a summer home for the children ofpoor working work-ing people of New York, at Spring Valley. He founded working boys' clubs in East Fifty-fifth street and West Sixteenth street, for which he purchased and remodelled fine club houses at a cost of $30,000. J The funeral took place from St. Patrick's Pat-rick's cathedral. The Most Rev. Archbishop Arch-bishop Farley celebrated a solemn requiem re-quiem mass. Over 100 priests of the archidoese were seated in the sane-' tuary, while the middle aisles were filled with Sisters of St. Francis, who have charge of the home at Mt. Loretto, Lo-retto, by Sisters of Charity and members mem-bers of other religious orders. Twenty-five boys from Mt. Loretto, a like number of girls from St. Eliza - i beth's home and a delegation of colored col-ored children from the home at Rye, also had seats in the central aisle, near the catafahiue, upon wh.ch the remains of their beloved father were exposed to view. . Many prominent citizens were in the congregation, representing the city government, the supreme court bench and different charity organizations. The Right Rev. Monsignor McGean of t St. Peter's parish preached the funeral sermon, after which the most reverend j archbishop gave the last absolution. |