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Show ; OUTLINING THE POPE'S ! 1 AMERICAN P8LICY i j -i Romsn Correspondent of the New York Tree-I Tree-I . j man's Journal Indicates the Work Mapped j Cut Tor Missionary Countries. 1 "Rome, Oct. -2s Jt will bo noticed that, though I 31:1- X has now occupied the-, chair of Peter -for i juite ton weeks, littlo or nothing has yet been dis- covered about what is called his "policy."' "To rc- s-ioro ail tilings in Christ" is. he himself has told Tis. to l.o tlio symbol -of In'-, pontificate; but to do ibis human means as well as divine ones must bo .-ippliod. "Vox Trl.U" thinks that he is in a posi-j posi-j tion in state what some of those means will be. And I lhe first, and not the least important, is to con-j con-j crrii the working of the Roman oongregatii ns. All I lhe imi'ortant business of the Catholic, church is j 5 im piloted through (hose congn nation;-,, and when I There is delay, or confusion, or lack of .proper knowl- I I-dgo in them the business of the Church must suf- t. As far as lhe United States is concerned, the j Propaganda is the most iinportunt ef all the Ro- j man congregations; in fact, it is practically the 1 1 1 - one with which American bishops and priests - ;:iv directly concerned. It is. therefore, of the first I importance that the work of Propaganda -be trans-I trans-I : .ted with promptness and accuracy, but the won-I won-I d'-nu! development of Catholicism in heathen. Ori-I Ori-I omal and English-speaking countries, has onor-I onor-I ni"udy multiplied the work of this congregation. I mi tluit the oiH-i::ls are quite unable to keep pace I ! villi 1 if growing needs. Vox 1'ibis has direel in- ! i f..ni;.!i ii.p that lhe Holy Father intends to devise ! roiiviies for ibis state ef things, j What the remedies are to be, ho cannot state I v. ith certainty. During the pontificate of Leo XIII. I a considerable portion of lhe American hierarchy j v,-"i'c in favor, of transferring the Church in the I 1 i "ii-d States from the jurisdiction of Propaganda I in ihat -f the Congrogal ion for Ecclesiastical Af- jaiiv indeed, ihe authorities in Pome had almost i determined to make this swecjMiijr I'hane, wiiich ' Weill. ! a floor, not only tl Pnited States, but Ire- Jl::nd. Ihiyland. Scotland. India anl. in a wonl. all f ' v iiniTries wiiere the hierarchy is non-canonically " o!-j.;nied. It would be too miieh to say that the I ide.-i has oven yet boon alioi;pther abandoned but I wyy likely it will. The alternative scheme which t V 1'rbis believes will h". adopted will.be, more I or !'--, a- fellows : ; i AH biitn''S -.f ;i jnirely missionary nature will I C' i;:;i:ne to be referred to Propaganda, but other I natters. c"iiiieeted with tho :idniiui-t rat ion of the I s:nMaii;e;it-, ;uestions of faith and morals, rites, ! Vi'i ri.--. liturgy, etc.. will be p-irtly divided anions j ihc oilier confirofiai iotis and partly intrusted to the j i'.iv.li'-tion of a eontrai ecclesiastical authority in I e::.i , -nimtry. This central authority will lie found U i-i'storat ion of the link of the hierarchy, I vhi.-l, I. :is either altogether disapieared or become i:''v! liominal. In former times the "Prima 1o" I iuri.-diction over lhe archbishops nnl I l'i-li..j-. ,,f tlie conntry and held larpe and clearly Jer'ii"(j elvers. With the process of centralization I wlii'-h boon r"inff on for centuries in the I liuioli. tl.M. jtowers and riphts iliminished 1o the jioint. until ecclesiastical affairs became :l:toM eiiiircly centered in Home. It will be seen fr"i!i a!! this ihat the restoration of the primatial 1 i' 1 in the Chareh is a iieslion of the most vital i 3!:i!-ii;-iioe ; if one nitty bo permitted to use the 1 thra.-e, it v,anlil mean the adoplion of the idea of f "0; 'Hie rule" all around, as applied to the affairs of f 1!:' ( 'Iiiiioh. The Primatial See of the United States I v-uiil.l i.robably be New York: Westminster would j 1- that of Kmrland ; Clasprow of Scolhmd; Annach J I of 1 :-( ..,;, ; Sydney of Australia, and so on. Xot ! I iM:vr..i.;:!..y the rulers of each of those sees would ! j ! 1, variably created members of the Sacred Col- I j 1'-'. and. 1 hereby become ipso facto the Council- j I""- of il. IIolv Uiitlur and Senators of the Uni- ! Choroh. ' j I ''aiiifestly the central idea of ibis chancre is ' of decentralization, yet it works also for a I i:; !.!ic centralization in the best seu.'-e. The j i ;;:iot,t of the Church becomes ;n imprajfnablc I ill: at the ba-e liie countless millions of the I ' .0 - ui. jdiove tb.em the immense numbers of both ! ' - v.-!,,, have dedicaled their lives in a special ", ,v ' ." : the service of !od: then the priests, both I ::',..,' ai:d relijriou?. then the bishops, each rulinpr . 1 " - :!io portion of the faithful S'athered info a I j o: next the archbishops, uniting several dio- ; ' - into an ecclesiastical province; offer them J 1 ! nnniiitcs. each of them possessing jurisdiction I a!l !h faithful, both lay and cleric, in a whole I ' ': ;ii)ove the Primate the Patriarchs, exoreis- ! r.-z oo,-le-i;istical sway over "roups of nations, and I - ' : . hijih over the whole world from the lowest. I - o highest, the Pope, successor of the Prince of : ' Apostf.s ;lnl Vicar on earth of Jesus Christ, j ;;i ' in the world is to be restored. i Too realization f this idea would necessarily I ?'v.vr- a considerable time but Vox Urbis has ';'' dent reason to believe that the Holy Father. I j X. intends to beoin the work, at least as far i I iw tiie institution of Primates is concerned. Yesterday His Holiness gran ted a very inter- I -iux audience to His Fminencc Cardinal Jforiin. j 'h" leaves Koine for Australia next Sunday, and I iiiie, :iately afterwanl His Kminence presented a I '!Ui),l,er of families from the United States. Austra-j Austra-j :'!- Ii'oland and Kiifrland. top-ether with several Au- 1 ''han jiriests. Today His Holiness receiveil Ilev. -'' 'Tail Costen. Procurator (leneral in Home of Irish Christian Prothers. Pius X elicited from j brother an account of the famous Irish insti- I j !;"' which was founded in 1S02 in Waterford by f -'nmnd Iirnatius Kice and has since spread j Iv''sh almost all fhe countries comprised in the j 'I'ltisl, r.nipjro. t j,.,s ninety-seven bouses in Ire- :n"'- "ver thirty in Australia, fen in British India, ! .'."' 111 -cwfoundiand, four in (libraltar, besides j ; pliers in South Africa and New Zealand. Many .'.N'"'Ps have asked lhe Superior Ceneral to estab- ) ( 1 Ynv hranehes in their dioceses, but he has been I f ('1. 10 "3" owinp lo lack of numbers. The i v '"s1lini P'rotliers s-bools have been marvelously ; Mieces.fu everywhere. Quite leceiitlv in Bristol, f ) L1Jglu,l, wl'sre Catholics are but few, the Broth- ' '. ' 1 ers" school captured twelve valuable scholarships out of a total of iifteen offered for competition to all the schools of England. The work is one after Pius X's heart, and ihe blessing he gave the institute was an exceptionally cordial one. A request was recently made to the ecclesiastical ecclesias-tical authorities in Koine by fhe Archbishop of Bos-fon Bos-fon for a coadjutor with right of succession. The necessary documents have been forwarded, and the election will take place immediately. Here in Rome it is believed that the choice will lie between Algr. b .,i-kin.s of Massachusetts and Mgr. William O'Con-nell, O'Con-nell, Bishop of Portland, with the probabilities, as far as Rome is concerned, strongly in favor of the hitler, who was for many years rector of lhe American Ameri-can college, in the Eternal City. This fact alone counts for much. The American college, founded in Rome by Pius IX, has taken a "great bound .forward this year, j when it opens with over ninety students the-highest number hitherto attained. Xext, year the sfn-j sfn-j dents will, in all likelihood, pass fhe hundred mark, , and (he institution ha? thus become one ef the j most important of the kind here. Old students j who pay a visit next year to their alma mater will iiud a great and salutary change in its material condition. Those of them who used lo be relegated for a course of years lo the "stal'ioUe"' or little, stalls, hardly larger than the staterooms of , an ocean steamer, will find that: they have disappeared to give way to bright and airy rooms; lhe rooms close by. seven or eight feet square, which used to lie coveted, have become the most undesirable in the college, while a large wing recently added to the college affords dozens of new rooms, large, lofty and bright, for ihe fortunate students of io-day. io-day. In short, the United States has reason to be proud of its college, in the Eternal City. Mgr. Kennedy has very little to say about his share in effecting these improvements, but. as Too XIII said in one of the last .-.udiences he gave before his fatal sickness: "The credit is enfirelv due lo Mgr. Kennedy." VOX URBIS. |