Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-29
LE0'S STATE SECRETARY.
Persistent Efforts Made to Snp1lant
Cardinal laCobini,
Wat is Thought in toe French Capita Of
These Efforts TO Change the popes
Secretary CT State


Secretary CT State
PAT'S, March 2.-Iieo NH. has changed
us Secretary of State four times in seven
yeals, and, il Vatican circles, it is persist
,ntly lfira;,d that he will soon make a
Eth change Cardinals Czacki and Lau-
rcr re are prominently mentioned for the
portfolio row held By Cardinal ia.
cobini. TIE Pope, however, is pro,
verbally reticent, and no one will get an
irkling from him Of what is forthcoming
Neither Czacki nor Laurent are acceptable
10 thinking Catholics in this city and Rome
The Pope is sensitive 10 puolic opinion,
and especially to the opinion Of tried ser
wants Of tie Church.
Cardinal Czachi is unified iJr he Safe
portfolio because he is iuGrm. because ne
has doctrinally compromised the Pope, end
because he has repeatedly exposed the Holy
See to contempt There is no doubt con.
corning his physical intirmity. He is laced
and screwed into paten. corsets, andhe can
not stand upright. He suffers from a ter
rible chronic headache, which entirely
secludes him. Now, if there is man
who needs good health and
positive endurance, it is the Cardinal Secre-
tary of State. Cardinal Jacobini is in per-
feet physical health is always at his post,
and is accessible to everybody. His aces
sibility and amiability will make the task of
biz successor hard. With Pope like Leo
MIL, who is almost inaccessible, the diplo-
matte body would hardly be subservient to
the health Of Cardinal Czacki and to the
camices OF his chronic headache. The Pope
would be overwhelmed with complaints, and
his State policy would become as in6rn as
biz Secretarv.
have said that His I:minence, Cardinal
Czacki has toctrinally compromised the
Holy See. The doctrines OF St. Thomas
have been sanctioned BY the bull .Eterpi
Paris, and this has silenced oil opposition;
out some years ago, when these doctrines
gcse not officially sanctioned by the Holy
See those who opposed them banded them
,elcs against Joachim Pecci, then Card.
nal Bishop of Perugia and within the
cery pale OF the Company Of Jesus. Some
Of The Fathers were then keeping a sharp
censorship over the doctrines and writings
of tie learned Father Cornoldi, the greatest
philosopher of the Jesuites. This Father
stood alone like giant against all the anti
Thomists even Of his own order. He is now
the soul OF the great Academic of St.
Thomas and The most intimate friend OF Leo
NH. In those days the doctors Of Lou
vain made Czceki champion and their
leader and rallied around him in force.
Czacki was then only Mon
signor to the Congregations de Iii AFFAIR."
Ecclesiastical Straordinarii, but h wrote
letter which he would gladly rec ii il posi-.
bic. Czacki was never a philosopher
nor a theologian. The letter was written
with view to throttlipg gre II Thomistic
movement in the University of Lille.
This movement was in consonance
with the movement in Italy, and
with the Thomistic revival stirred
up by the Bishop Of Perugia and
the Archbishop of Bologna, and encouraged
by the Holy See in brief addressed TO
Bolegnese doctor, who, with the Jesuit Cor
mold. was inocuiaiing every branch Of phil
osophy with Thomism. Czacki's letter, un.
happily for him, has lately been reprinted
with all its doctrinsl errors. Leo NH.
can hardly forget this blunder. He may
make allowance for Caacki's lack Of phil
osophical science when only a Mousignor,
but be can hardly forgive the ready comics
cension with which he raisei the flag
that rallied sll the Belgian anti Thomists,
and hallowed it with the prestige Of his oil
cial position. The effect Of Czackis letter
at that time was such that newspapers in
Milan and Udine asserted that it destroyed
tie effect OF tie brief of Pope Plus IN. to
he Academy Of Bologna. This, of course,
was nonsense, because a brei has the
authority of Pope's signature, while the
Nonsignar's letter can only be estimated BY
ts actnal doetriral value.
The diplomatic blunders made by Csrdi-
nal Czacki while here in Paris are third
reason against his being made Secretary OF
State. While the republic was putting the
Iniie into religious corporations, Czscki re
NAMED on the best personal terms with the
,risands. The Holy See was roundiy
cursed here then, and some newspapers
cached the hight Of viturPertatio1
n deuouncipg his policy and his
behavior. The Aurora Of Rome. then the
,emi-offcial organ Of the Vatican, may
hipk Czacki for its premature death.
Count Connestable. clever young Journal
st and an intimate friend Of the Pecci fam
IL. on the eve Of the French elections, wrote |
. newspaper article vhiCh aroused the in
lienation Of the Legitimists throIgsous
he world. Il was the most impoiiic ar
icle that ever appeared in the Aurora
4 was concocted by the Huncio
,ere, ard might as well have been prepared
a his ante-chanber. To sooshs the wrath |
# the French Legitimists, Kill made the |
Journal de Rome the seni-ofbcid organ.
This gave the coup de grace to the Aurora.
The Journal de Rome Is EoS the organ o.
he French Legitinists in Rome. aud Is en- |
arport with the Vatican. In view OF these |
scts. how could French Catholics willingly
ubmit to Secretary IKE the ex-Naneiof
Another thing sntsgonizes the probability ]