Show catholic churches honor completion of a century of activity new york april 26 every catholic church and the houses within the arch diocese of new york were in festal array today while perhaps a million men women and children gave thanks for the progress catholicism has made in new york since it was formally established a hundred years ago it was the beginning of the week ot rejoicing in honor of the completion of a century of activity the center of interest was st patricks cathedral where at 11 this morning monsignor lavelle the rector was celebrant of a solemn mass of thanksgiving and the archbishop of new york preached a sermon the edifice was decorated in the interior with the papal colors and outside and between its tapering towers the american flag was flung to the breeze every geat was filled and hundreds clamored for admission cardinal logue occupied the arch bishops throne at service and gave the blessing at the close at the end of tho first gospel archbishop farley entered the pulpit and in a few happy words welcomed cardinal logue to this country he then delivered a sermon in the course of which he reviewed the history of catholicism in new york spoke of the numerous patriots it had given to the country referred to the parochial school system and its influence on the morals of a community then closed with a word on the tendency of the age you all know my brethren as I 1 know he said that the tendency of the age is materialistic that even some of our own brethren at times have not been proof against this materialistic teria listic tendency ah is it not true today that money even among men who profess to believe in christianity ti is the law Is it not con firmed by the dally chronicle sad and shameful as it is that wealth turns to stone the hearts of fathers and mothers and by crushing out christian principles tends to annihilate the love of children for parents and the love of parents for their offspring this is the crying crime of the age in the evening the archbishop gave a dinner in honor of the irish cardinal tomorrow night the countess acary will entertain both cardinals logu c and gibbons and all the other prelates pr elates who will have arrived here for the public festivities to resume again tuesday morning at the cathedral cardinal gibbons and monsignor bruchell Bruc henl of montreal will arrive here tomorrow morning monsignor falconio left washington tonight bearing a special for archbishop parley that will be made public tuesday |