The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-10-25
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- the unfortunate disaeasion between tn
Bishsp Of Chicago aad sone II his clergy
10 which the secular AID some Of the 10.
lieious press have given considerable ear
rsncy. Il was matter in which our inter.
ference was mot required, being wholly
within the province sf ecclesiastical Al
thority. That authority has settled the
matter definitively, as will be seen by the
following documents;
~ srATElfENr
OF The AreAbtskcp Of ST. Louis to The Pretssl
Of the Sacred COHgyeg0ti0n Do FSde Prop
dganda- Reply Of tie Latter Eocsa.sostie.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10, 1868.
Most EmSwent MISREPRESENTATION that
it was permitted me by the return Of the
Bishop Of Chicago, who arrived on the Sd
fulfil the office required OF me, according to
the letters Of your Eminence, dated the
3lst day of March. For six days I re-
manned in this city, and frequently spoke
with very many priests of the diocese. a.
well secular as religious, concerning the
complaints made against the bishop.
took care that the priests, the Rev. Messrs.
Dunhe, McMulfen, Roles and McGovern,
who were known as the ones who had for
warded these complaints to your Eminence,
should be cited before me, that / might
learn from them if they had nything for es-
two have hitherto appeared, and were able
to bring forward nothing ut all in their de-
fence of the charges urged against the be-
aforementioned bishop. They replied that
they would lay their answers before me in
writing, which they have not as yet done.
If they should do this before bring these
letters to an end, will submit them in
closed with these to your Eminence. The
Rev. Messrss Dunno and AcGoyern were
absent from the city on the arrival of the
bishop, one of whom assigned as . reason
the plea of ill health, but the other assigned
Beside the aforementioned letters,
which 1 had received at Rome from your
Eminence, the Bishop Of Chicago furnished
me with those which your Eminence had
sent to him, while he was at Rome, on the
18th day of December of the last year, in
tions brought forward by the above-men-
toned priests, which heads have thought
should be copied here, that their refutation
might he proceeded with in order.
So First-It is charged before this sacred
congregation that your fordship ministered
in what relates to the government of
parishes, in which you not only displayed
no care, but rather tended directly to i'm
psde that which had been undertaken for
the good of religion"
Nothing has been at all brought forward
to establish this accusation on the con-
trary, very many priests of the diocese, who
hsve been engaged In niiGsions, have tessi-
fed that the bishop had sssisted both by
counsel and. money. In appendix No. l,
of the diocese in the years 1858 and 1858
10 shown from the Catholic Directory, your
enemies will find how much the church
has accomplished in this diocese during the
time in which the Bishop of Chicago has
undertaken its government.
r. &c ali &sofno &<~vu OF
your lordship should have been absent from
the diocese for about half the year, during
which time you spent great amount of
money which should have been employed
in the erection of new missions, and in
maintaining the old institutions of religion.
Whence it follows that everything Ia in .
wretched condition"
1t is true that, during the last six years, |
the bishop has been absent three times in
Europe-namely, in 1862, when, at the in
vitatiOn OF the Supreme Pontiff, he went
with other bishops to Rome; likewise, in |
the year 1866, he was absent three or four
months on account of ill health, under the |
advice of his physician-an absence which !
he made known to your Eminence by let
ter /; and, finally, during the last year, first
in obedience to the Supreme Pontiff, aud I
then In compliance with the direction of
his physician, who considered that he
needed q long repose from labor. The
state of his health becoming worse, he was
to spend q month or two in
Paris, where he was taken Sc seriously I'll
that his medical attendant, DR.. Ascoba,
thought his life in danger. Hence it be-
came impossible for him to assist at the
centenary celebration of the most holy
apostles; after which, by the advice of the
physician, he undertook ajour-
ney TO the hot springs of Carlsbad, in the
kingdom of Bohemia. Afterward he visited
Rome, where he remained till the beginning
Of February, where the mafady which had
induced him to try change of climate
attacked him anew. AS it was impossible 4
FOR him to return home in the middle of 1
winter, he determined to visit the holy &.
places in Palestine, hoping to be able to .
return to Rome before Easter At other
lines, when he sbsented himself for one or {
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