Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-25
POPE LEo's ADDRESS.
The Holy Sea and the New Catholic Col
lege at Washington.

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BALTIMORE, Md, April 2s-The Catho-
lie Mirror tomorrow will publish the fol-
| lowing brief address to the American
| bishops by Pope Leo XIII. setting forth
the grants and wishes of the holy see in
relation to the Catholic college at Wash.
ington:
The earnestneSs with which you ap-
ply yourselves TO the preservation of
Catholic piety to promote the inter-
ests Of your dioceses, and especially
to supply safeguards by which pro-
vision is made for the proper train
ing of clergymen and young laymen,
and sound doctrine in every branch of sci
ence gives Us cause of great Joy. There
fore, very welcome were your letters sent
to US during the close of last year, in which
you state the work commenced ON the
great lyceum or university at Washington
which you were promoting had so far pro-
crossed that all things are now ready for
the teaching of theology this year and we
joyously accept your university laws and
statutes, which you submitted to our
authority and judgment In which mat
ter we Judge your purpose most praise
worthy that you have resolved to
set up in the centennial year
OF the establishment of the eccle-
SidSliCai uicIdrCly tucTS Il monument ana
perpetual memorial Of that auspicious
event, by founding the university There
lore, anxious to satisfy forthwith your Just
desires. we intrusted your university laws
brought for examination and recognition
TO the most eminent cardinals of the
Propaganda, that they might give Us
their Judgment concerning them. Now,
their opinion being laid before US. gladly
granting your requests, we sanction by
these letters the statutes and laws of your
and we give to the same the
proper rights OF tull and
regular university. Therefore we
grant power to your university
to promote students whose knowledge |
shall have been tested to academic degrees |
and to the degree of doctorship in the |
1logy, philosophy and common law, and |
n the other sciences in which it is GUS |
5omary to confer degrees and doctorship |
when IN coming years the teaching of |
hem shall have been established in your
but we wish you, dearly be-
owed brethren, TO preside with Jealous
are over the direction of studies AMI the
discipline of the students in your univer-
lty either through yourselves or through
'reiates chosen from you whom you
his Office. As the See of Balti-
more is the chief among the episco-
al sees of the United States of North
America, to the Archbishoj of Baltimore
nd to his successors we grant the privi-
eye OF dlscharging the Office of supreme
moderator or chancellor of the university.
borrower, we desire, and first of all in the
ED of philosophy and theology, the plan
studies or programmes of subjects to be
ollowed in your university to be submit
ed for recognition to this apostolic see, in
rider that they may be approved, and that
ne teaching in every branch of knowl-
hn co rl.,e 4
erics and laymen equally may have
n opportunity to satisfy the noble I
eslre OF knowledge by adequate instruc-
on. But amongst these courses we wish
lat there be esta blished a school of ponti-
cal and ecclesiastical law, which knowl- {
ige, especially i'll these times, we know TO 7
2 of great Importance. We exhort YOU
Il Furthermore to affiliate to your univer- {
ty, seminaries, colleges and other Cath | {
&c seats OF learning, as IS suggested in
lie statutes, Safeguarding, however. the {
dependence of each oue In order to {
9rlye from the various departments of :
le great university the greatest ~bene-
IS for the greatest number, it is well {
admit, particularly to those schools
. theology and philosophy, not only those
no should have finished those studies, as
dated out by the third plenary council
Baltimore, but also even those who are
t on beginning or prosecuting its courses
studies. {
Since the great university not only re- +
FUNDS to the honor of your country, that =
Sures the rich and sautary fruits be- I
nging to the propagation of sound doc 8
inc and the protection of Catholic piety
shtiy do we trust the undetermined
merican faithful will not permit any
ing to be wanting to you in order to
ing the work to splendid COM y
elton. The Washington University be-
G established by these, our letters, we
Rid thh founding of any other such in n
tuition without consulting the Apostolic r
e. What we have declared and appoint {
by these letters we judge will be clear i,
oof OF our desire and anxiety to promote +,
that region more and more the glory "
d the prosperity of the Catholic religion. IL
Given in Rome, at St. Peters on the "
'st of st. Thomas Aquiuas 1889, in the a
elfth year of our pontificate. Ct
Signed LEO KILL" re