New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-02
CAMPELLO'S SECESSION.


OF HIS EARLY CAREER AND THE bFhNio -,
cpnrxc HIS CHANGE OF FAITH-CUHoUs NlH"'
OF ECCLESIASTICAL DIsCIPLINE-AN AllIN.
To CHANGE THE METHOD OF PoNlrr M
FIKcuoN-CAMpEILO' PRoBABLE folCN' -,
REER AS OUTLINED BY AN EN"
RESPONDENT. .u, ,,,p,,,r.I
irPoM A REGULAR CoRREsfoNDhNi vi - ,rn,,,->.v
po,,p Oct 1O.-The readers OF Ihb mn ~ ~.
Ao,,o hoard of the "apostasy OF Couh' ii0Hi-
ComneIlo-of his publicly announcer ueSei 'ion -
the Church Of Rome, that is, anu MS ",'o" -
small and obscure Methodist cohgresa1'Cn' -
aaasses small chapel in the Piazza Pom IN TINS
poSs''' "a aIthouoh the event doubtless does not
80, 90 i,onortant when seen from your distance
:, from the other side Of 1.-THE Alps as 1t does 10 our
..4onisbed and scandalized Roman world, she CIR
.rstances attending it are nevertheless such as 10
,,ake IL worth while to spend a few lines IN stating
them. 49, ,.., .o
The Conn, has written and published little auto
tiooranbicaI hook upon the subject, which though
sufficiently suggestive of the proyerbial WISH VI
mans enemy has come very opporIuDeiS ~ ~,
to,.ino b,rrel ON the cheerful blaze produceu
nv the strife of tongues on the occaSioii' 80
to furnish MS with some rather curious pat'io","i,
Count Henry Campello belongs to genuine Stooh
of old Roman aristocraey. And IL VIII De iei' "V
onco how keenly this fact must have added 10 the
.o;r which his detection has caused in the Church
10 hos left If the Mother Church is bereft OF her
oohla Roman children. she is bereft indeed! buJ
4hare 10 worse if worse be possible, behind count
Harry Campello was also Canon OF the Chufch
If Saint peterl The sketch given by the new COLI
vert tn Methodsn of his life and OF the c'rcth-
stances preceding his ecclesiastical prohoiIoi'
show further that his detection is one calcuitou 70
he particularly CALLING to his late superiors ~ 'n'
davs when Plus TX was Liberal, the lam
nellos father and uncle of the Count Henry ioi-
lowed the fashion of the hour ana were L.ooi""
also. But the time came when the LlDerai IoPo
nod 20 av from the Liberalism of his subjects The
short-lived Republic followed and the CampehoS'
instead of following the fortunes Of their !ate
master accented employment under 1t. But wheh
.;,a in this case a very sh )rt time" brought in
;,s revepUesn the father of Count Henry, who had
baen an intimate friend of the Pontif when he was
Archbishop of Spoeo star ted off to Gaeta fuiy ex-
Meeting that this old friendship would suince 10
make his excuses for his somewhat Nicar-oi-Dray-
like conduct readily accepted, and that the Caui-
neos would stand as well as ever in the graces Oh
the restored Pontiff 1t seems probable from what
bappened subsequently that this might have been
In. case if the Pope had been free to consult his
own inclnatons But he was closely surrounded
by the most strong handed members Olthat Violeht
marty in the Church which retained complete pos
session of him during the whole remainder OF ms
Ponti6eate And the result was that Campelio
was told that a Giunta of Cardinals had been ap-
ponted to decide on all such eases as his that TINS
bodv was then sitting at Rome; and that he must
return thither and submit his excuses to them lie
did so with the result of finding himself turned out
of all the employments he had held, and himself
and his brother disgraced men, Shortly after the
Pope's return to Rome. however, two Cardinals
Amat, to whom the Popes election had cen manly
due and Serafni, a relative OF the Campeho
family. interceded with the POnth IN favor OF his
old friend: and the result was that IL was lhl-
mated to the young Henry, then little more thah
twenty years old, that if he would embrace tue
ecclesiastical career, splendid future would be
open to MIN. and all causes of unpleasantness be-
tween the members of his family and the Pontiit be
forgotten
The ex- Canon now twenty-five years older than
he was at that time represents himself not only as
having had no vocation" to the career proposed
to him. but to have felt the strongest aversion
to it, He describes at great length all the Jesuit
cal arts which, in addition to the pressure put upon
him by his parents, used to overcome ms re-
luctanee. He describes how one day His Eminence
Cardinal SeTafn speaking in the kindest manner
said to him SOpen your heart to me- Henry Tel
me whatsit is that holds you back from accepting
the splendid advantages offered to you" " Emf
ND of my libertyr' From what is told the reader
subsequently it is abundantly clear that the speaker
meant and the nearer understood him to mean, that
snecial liberty which every ecolesiastic of the
Roman Church vows to abandon. His Eminence,
the writer tells u.s. ON hearing this burst into loud
laugh aSiy fellow that you areW said he. " |
entered the Church at very early age. soon
became a prela,e. / was Canon OF st. Peters,
and am now Cardinal. But | never gave mp my
liberty and have lived after my own fashion" In
short Henry, of course, yielded was handed over
to q Jesuit father to be indoctrinated; aud this
rapitly and compendiously accomplished, was
made a member of the Noble Roman Ecclesiastical
Academy" He was not qualified for this promo
tion according to the rules but papal dispense
ton easily overrides all rules. There he at once
began to find that the excellent Cardinal had not
deceived him with false hopes At the Noble
Academy he was made master of a charming apart
rnent; he had the whole of his time at his own
disposition and the only point of discipline was
that the rule required him TO he within doors by
sunset-"to which nobody ever paid the smallest
attention"
The next steps in his career were made equally
easy to him. lie was pushed rapidly through the
minor orders of acolyte, suhdeacon, etc, and
ordained priest in 1855 at twenty-tOur years of
age. He was appointed to pronounce the discourse
in honor of the Chapter of St. Peter, which is
always spoken bs member OF the Noble Academy
on the festival observed in honor of the Chair of
St Peter" His Grafton, he tells MS, was immensely
successful. But he now makes it the oc; asion of
an indictment of Roman Catholicism, as being in
truth Plagiarism thinly crusted over with Christian
doctrine. Shortly all these merits rewarded
by his appointment to a Canonry in the Church of
ST. Maria MaggioIe" He was very i'll received. he
tells u.s. by his colleagues of the Chapter, who con-
tnue6 TO look askance at him and his family in
consequence of the Liberal faint which rested on
them; all ttis favor and promotion being due to
the personal friendship of Plus TX and two