The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-20

it is! How real! How living! The church
in her councils acts for the benefit of So
ciety in three different ways: 1st, by |
preserving the purity and certainty of
great truths, which give certain motive to |
morality. End, by the reformation Of |
morals amongst her own children; and |
Ord, by her solicitude for the poor and |
suffering members of society. And be-
lieve that she never had grandsr mis-
sion in all her history than she has to-
day to the noble, generous and fair
minded American deople. Therefore We
have ground OF hope that she viii be
| great conservative power in this young
and promising republic"
After sermon the choirs sang an anti
phon and psalm. Then the Apostolic
Delegate recited prayer in Latin the
Litany of the Saints were chanted; and
after another short prayer and the singing
of "Veni CREATOR the Apostolic Dele
gate declared the council opened, and all
the members of the council made the pro-
fession of faith by advancing in front OF
the altar, kneeling down two by two before
the Bible, and kissing the open page as
they made their profession. Though the
labors OF the plenary council shall not be
made public until the whole work of the
Council has been sent TO Rome and re-
viewed there, still we know from a pas
toral letter of the plenary council all the
very important subjects upon which they
} have legislated. They are: First, the
l Vatican Council second, the infalibility
? of the Pope third, the trials of the
: Church fourth, the Church and the Re
| public fifth, the education of the clergy
sixth, the pastoral rights /; seventh,
Christian education eighth, the Christian
home, 5.e., what makes the home Christ
ian Christian marriage, the indissollu-
4 bility of marriage, home virtues, d.e.,
Christian charity which consists in the
love of God and our neighbor, good read
: ing, the Holy Scriptures, the Catholic
9 Press ninth, the Lords Day TENTH
e forbidden societies eleventh, Catholic
y societies twelfth, Home and Foreign
It Missions. The regulations made by the
n Council upon these numerous and vas
e subjects will not be made public unit
It they have been reviewed and approved a
e Rome.
y AS divine blessing of their labors, on
e offer of 100000 has been made to then
IS by Miss Mary G.. Caldwell, a young lad.
e of New York city, as the foundation for
g Catholic University, to be established il
New York city Or its vicinity, under tn
s guiding hand of the Council, for tn
q higher education of the future ministry o
t the Catholic Church in the United States
L This Plenary Council does plainly shoN
70 what progress the Catholic Church ha
~ made in the United States of Americ
ID during the last hundred years. From
lie few thousand we have grown to be eigh
ID millions. Said Bishop Spalding, c
r, Peori, in a thanksgiving sermon, in pres
at ence of the members of the Council
i'd 'Then 100 years ago. we were withou
Of organization. Now this solemn council
I'd more numerous and more free than an
I'd which could be assembled elsewhere,
IN the most striking evidence of our perfet
s, organization. Then we had no schools
OF now nearly half a million children recei1
OF instruction. in Catholic schools. The
churches were few and poor; now the
ng are counted by thousands. and many
40 them are monuments. Like the growt
3. of the country, our progress have been 5
lo rapid and so manifest, that words b1
0p enfeeble the impression stamped upon a
20 minds by the facts themselves" -E,
lie tracts from the Baltimore Weekly Sun.