Show CARDINAL EXPLAINS DEFEAT OF HANNA rome jan 14 cardinal gotto prefect of the congregation of the propaganda pa made a report today to the pope of the meeting held yesterday he declared thai the failure to select rev J hanna of rochester for tho office of coadjutor archbishop of san francisco did not assume anything of a personal nature against alie candidate even in the eyes of those who opposed his election it being generally admitted that lie deserves election but said cardinal gotti it did not seem advisable under present circumstances when the struggle against modernism is being carried on so vigorously and when other ecclesiastics guilty of the same errora of which dr hanna has been accused have been punished especially in france and germany for this reason ho if was deemed indispensable that dr hanna publicly demonstrate that he is not guilty of tho charges made against him explaining his opinion with regard to what he wrote in the american catholic encyclopedia and tho new york review publishing these explanations not only in america but in france and germany as well |