Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-16
BISHOP KEANE.
HE BELIEVES THE CATHOLIC UNIvER-
SiTY HAS A GREAT FUTURE.
A Fine picture of the Pope-Other Hand
some Presents to the
University.
lwashIngton Posi.l

Bishop Keane. rector Of the new Catho-
lie University, ca.he over from Baltimore
yesterday aud is stopping at st. Patrick,s
parsonage. He intended, in company with
Father Garrigan the vice-rector, To make
a trip out TO the Divinity building to see
how the interior work was progressing,
but the weather was so Indictment that he
was obliged TO postpone his visit until To-
day.
ave are busy now" said the Bishop last
night, "selectiug the furniture and inte-
rior furnishings Of the building. 1t is our
purpose to purchase as much OF 1t as posi-
bic in Washington. as we believe in patron
izing home interests. but some OF the
things will be imported from Europe. The
chapel will have thirteen marble affairs.
and in order 10 get them OF as fine quail
ity and as artistically made as possible
they were ordered from Caen,. France.
They could have been gotten in this coun-
try, it is true. but then they would not
have been so fine. The seventeen stained
glass windows were ordered from MUNICH
and both the glasses and affairs have ar
rived in New York, and will be put IN
place in a couple of weeks. Nothing pre-
venting we expect TO have everything IN
readiness for the opening Of the University
in November" -,
THE Pope takes great interest in the
University, does he notY"
Yes: he considers it q matter forpartlc-
ulGr pride that the first century OF the es-
Enlistment OF the Catholic hierarchy IN
America under Archbishop Carroll was
completed during his pontlficacy, and that
the second century Is TO be instituted by
the founding of university, which, with
the grace Of God, we hope to make great
and useful in the highest sense OF the
term. The Pope is man of great depth
and breadth Of learning himself. and nav
ing done considerable TO elevate eccle-
siastical learning 10 u higher plane, he
naturally looks with great favor upon any
movement tending To elevate Catholicism
in America. During the celebration OF hrs
golden jubilee last year he was presented;
rs is known, with numerous costly ana
elegant gifts. Among these was magn!l-
cent oil-painting OF himself. This he has
given to the University, and IT will be
placed in one of the main parlors. In pre-
senting il 10 me he said: had intended
that this should be placed in she gallery OF
the Vatican. but | had rather for 1t 10
hang in the new University in America.
Thanking the picture Of the Pope on
either side" continued the Bishop, will
be paintings OF Washington and Arch
bishop Carroll, executed by GregoYl, a Ia
nous Italian painter, who has been doing
work in America for a number OF years,
and who is now al the Notre Dame Uni
yersity of Indiana. The appropriations
Of this will be seen when it is remembered
that this is the centenary Of Washington
as well as Of the Catholic hierarchy IN
America"
VIII there be any other portraits or
paintings from ETope:"
There will be three statues-One OF
Mary Immaculate, ono OF ii. Panl tho
Apostle. and the other of st. Thomas
Aquinas. Tho Roman Government has
adorned the Penchian Hill OF the Eternal
City with busts OF its distinguished men.
Among these; and one OF the hnest Of Inc Inc
lot. is that Of St. Thomas Aqulnas. The
English colOnists in Rome, knowing the re-
gard entertained for this saint. and AZ
token. also. of my having lecturcd ana
preached among them. had a fac Simtb
made of this statue for our University. All
three of the statues, learn, have already
arrived in New York"
What about the question of the Gov
eminent allowing the University to import
professors from abrOadF'
That subject has been one altogether
of newspaper talk. We have mad niue or
nothing TO say about it, being confident all
the time. "a now, that the law could be go
interpreted as to allow US TO do itV
You have seen the Pope recently; what
about the truth Of the statement that he
is in poor health?"
There is nothing in it at all. Physical
lv the Pope has the appearance of man
dead. his complexion being ghostly white.
When he begins 10 talk, however, his face
warns up with the glow Of a strong. active
intellect and you at once perceive that
your first impressions were a mistake
Is there any likelihood of the Pope
having to leave Rome and take refuge IN
another country
1T Is tho business Of newspapers TO
theorize rs well rs state facts, and the re-
port Of the likelihood Of anything Of the
kind is based upon an hypothesis. If the
triple alliance were broken, and italy were
involved in q war. Rome might be cut off
from the other part of the world, and the
refuge Of the Pope in some other country
thus be made necessary. But Italy IL not
troubled with war. and even II the Pope
was compelled to leave Rome, 1t would be
no more than other Popes, Plus VII. and
Plus X, for instance, did"