OCR Text |
Show THE FOPE AND PROF. ELIOT. A special from Rome to the Chicago Tribune says : "The address delivered by Professor Charles Kliot before the Harvard summer school has been translated by the Pope's order, that he might thoroughly thor-oughly comprehend it. ''The translation was read with great care by His Holiness, who expresses profound regret that a man of such authority and culture as Dr. Eliot should spread theories that, he said, are not in fact the basis of a new religion of the future, but a ne- I gation of the faith and principles which are the foundation of Christianity and modern civilization. I "The Pope is reported to have said it would be easy to refute and destroy Dr. Eliot's argument and highly praised Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia, Bishop MeFaul of Trenton and other American ec- iciesiasts who hastened to defend their church and faith. "It is believed that a semi-official reply to Dr. ' Eliot's address on the lines suggested by the Pope himself will appear in the Civitta Catholica, the most representative Catholic magazine." What a gullible people the fellows at the other end of the Atlantic cable must take us for when they burn the wire with "hot stuff" like this! The Civitta Catholica suspended three months ao, and we have not heard anything of its resurrection resurrec-tion from the dead. It is contrary to precedent for the Pope of Rome to pay attention to anything emanating from any non-Catholic unless the offending party be a ruling sovereign or the president of a republic. The present pres-ent Pontiff is not the man to violate the traditions of the Chair of Peter. Marie Corelli once' wrote a vile work with the sole purpose of having it condemned by Rome, hoping hop-ing to advertise herself by the denunciation, and it looks very much as if some shrewd admirer of Eliot's aesthetic creed of the future was juggling with the same trick to advertise his idol's independent independ-ent thought. |