The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-17
THE ROMAN PONTIFF.
Cardinals and ArchbishOps Say
His Health is Good.
THE POPE's VIEWS ON EDUCATION.
He Asks Only "The Best and Most Thorough
The Catholic Version of Temporal
POwer-PontiicaI Rome.

Though the streets of this city; while the
Eplendid masses, Impressive professions
and eloquent orations were giving en-
phasis to the hopes of the faithful; while
the walls of the first Catholic university in
America were receiving fitting .consecra-
zion at the hands Of Americas cardinal,
Leo XIII, the supreme pontiff of the
church, was awaiting in the Vatican, so
said the recent dispatches, if with Chris
tian fortitute, in no little depression of
body and mind approaching dissolution.
When the Examiner correspondent, com
missioned from the home Office to in
quire, from those in a position to know
best. into the exact state of the Pope's
health arrived in Baltimore, the centenary
was in full progress. He therefore took
advantage of the opportunity which was
4 offered of gathering from the distinguished
visiting prelates such news of Pope Leo's
personality and policy as could be properly
presented through the medium of a news
paper interview. Some of the gentlemen
who We're kindly disposed enough to grant
YOUR CORES pOndent the much coveted audi
ence were his grace Archbishop Corrigan,
of New York; Archbishop Satolli, the pa
pal legate, and his secretary Monseigneur
Huwleut; Monseigneur O'ConHell, of the
American college at Rome, and Father de
Coneilio domestic prelate to Leo, and their
eminenceS, Cardinal Taschereau, of Canada,
and Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore.
The Examiner correspondent called upon
the archbishop of New York several times
sSturing the first part of his stay in Balti-
Enore, without finding him at home. He
was staying with some friends on what
h. seemed to YOUR correspondent to be most
appropriate thoroughfare, st. Paul street,
and the next morning the correspondent
was more fortunate. He carried with him
a letter of introduction to his grace from
gentleman who had made the archbishop's
acquaintance in much the same manner
though the letters were no less august
than from the Vatican Itself. This pro
Vided an open sesame. Almost immedi-
ately the archbishop, in the robes Of his
Office and wearing around his neck a
chair .. ,Old from which hung the cross of
the church, entered the drawing room
into which your correspondent had been
ushered. He shook your correspondent
cordially by the hand and invited him to
be seated.
ARCHBISHOP CORRIGAN
is a tall, slight, handsome man with a
bright speaking face and an intellectual
coun tenance However, there is something
almost awe inspiring in his manner and
your correspondent felt no little en-
barrassment in addressing him.
Your grace" he said. automatically,
''you have PROBABLY read the recent dis
patches betraying some apprehension as to
the POpe'S condition OF health. Is there any
ground for these reports!"
81 think if there were any," replied the
archbishop, slowly, II should have heard of
it. | think l would be very likely to know
of any alarming symptoms of his holiness
condition"
''And you have received no such intelli-
gence?" continued your correspondent.
"Weu.n replied the archbishop, his holi-
ness is certainly aged and feeble, nearly
eighty years of age On the other hand, he
comes from very old family. His brother,
STe late Cardinal Fernando Pecci, lived to
an advanced age, and | see no reason why
we should not expect many years of useful
ness from the sovereign pontiff Certainly
I have heard no fears expressed about his
Immediate dissolution"
There is no reason, then, to expect it
within a week or a month"; asked the cor
respondent.
mot the slightest, as l said. The rumors
are based upon mis- feebleness and extreme
age He is in the twilight of life, no doubt :;
but them added the cOurtly prelate with a
pleasant smile, Il am glad to say there are
some twilights which last a very long
time
You are doubtless aware that the official
Journals of Rome have announced that the
physicians of the Vatican have ordered
great care in his case!"
Sand he himself las made every pro-
. vision for his interment," was the quick
reply.
but who says these journals are official?
A great many papers give value to very
sensational news by just such device. It
is difficult to say when journal is or is not
official. In a certain sense, every respon-
sible journal has right, under proper
circumstances, to obtain correct informa-
ton. ! mean that a great deal has been
made OF some innocent talk about the
Pope's daily regime. As for any arrange
ments he has made in case of his death, he
is only setting the best example for people
in the best of health. OF course we do not
say OF an ordinary parsonage, that he is
destined to die merely because be has made
his will, and that is what the so-called
provisions you speak of amount to.
During large part of Pope Plus ks life
time just such runors of his approaching
ASeath were constantly coming into this
country. They may have resulted from a
Jealous anxiety with regard to his health,
but they were nevertheless premature
"Au but the last" interiected the cor
respondent.
'Of course" replied the archbishop
quickly, but almost strictly. All that I
can say is that those who have seen him
last report him to be in the best of spirits,
suffering apparently from no organic dis
ease, able in an extreme age to read a good
deal without the aid of glasses. Amer
lea should not fall into the mis-
take of comparing the vital power
of such a man with that possessed by those
whose lives are notregulated with the same
care and who do not live in the calm of
Christian resignation. Why the age of sixty
two in this country is that fixed for the
retirement from service of our generals
and admirals. In Italy, man at that age
has only really begun to serve his country
If net his God. He is called homo mature"
''And you would still regard the Pope as
homo mdtUrO?"
sin the fullest aud most complete sense
of the word"
At this point the archbishop rose to re-
ceive some distinguished clerical visitors
and the correspondent saw that the inter
view was at an end. Amid the cordial
handshaking and greeting of the new visi-
tors, he took his departure.
The correspondents next quest was
Archbishop Satoli, of Italy, the papal
delegate. No one of the distinguished
Rele-icals at the centennial has enjoyed more
Nonor, as the personal representative OF the
Pope, than this brilliant prelate. He was
found at the cardinals residence d rather
modest house, profusely decorated with
flags. Up and down the steps stream of
callers was passing as the correspondent
entered the hall and finally one Of the
ante-chanlbers were the diguitaries of the
church were holding their levees.
ARCHBISHOP sAToLl
proved to be fne-looking man of about
fifty, himself much resembling portraits of
Leo, whom, in this country. he officially
represents. The archbishop speaks Eng