Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-06
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.
Bishop keane In an Interview Discusses
Its Plans and Prospects.

| Its Plans and Prospects.
| Bishop keane. the rector of the Catholic
university. arrived in New York city yesterday
morning from his six months visit in Europe.
The vice rector, Rev. DIR. Garrigan. met the
bishop at the dock. and they went together
! to the house of the Paulist Fathers, on 59th
street. In conversation with a correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun Bishop Keane said:
Il went to Rome for two chief reasons to
obtain professors for our classes and the appro-
baton of the holy see for the statutes and con-
stitution of the university and official recogni-
ton, and the faculties necessary for us to grant
degrees. was more than surprised during my
stay there to see quoted from a Protestant
| source (Blshop Coxe) the assertion that it was
! a monstrous thing to see ut this day the appro-
| baton OF the pope asked for before a purely
American institution could be opened. The
gentleman evidently lost sight even of the name
OF the institution. 1t is to be the Catholic uni
| verslty OF America. Now we seek our powers
as an educational foundation from the state
| and the church. To the one we must prove
our ability to teach the requisite limit of letters
and science before we can receive charter to
I grant degrees. Was there anything wonderful.
| then. when we intended to also bestow the
highest honors in theological and divinity
studies. that we should prove to the head of
the church that We would be competent to
teach in the fullness of Catholic faith and
| morals?
| THE PoPE's APPROVAL.
| Bishop Keane added that the pope approved
the plan of the new university and he granted
| the exceptional honor of all the rights of a
thoroughly constitutional university without
limit as to time. In granting the brief the holy
| father said: Il do this in order to show my con-
| tdence in the bishops of the United States.
| The work is Theirs they know the needs and
| conditions, and l ask no time limitation but
! grant the approval totally and Immediately,
and as a recognition of the genius and capabil-
tiles of the people of the United States"
PICTURE OF THE POPE.
II was anxious to have good likeness of the
pope" continued the bishop. $50 1 secured the
best artist could in Rome and asked the pope
! to give him sittngs. No. said the holy father
| Il have a portrait which hung in the Jubilee
| exhibition. and which intended should hang
in the vatican, but prefer to give it to you for
the university, if You think it good enough
| He had two men hang it up with great trouble
| in one of the halls, and when came to see it
| some days after was delighted with it. 1t is
| painted by Ugellni. and represents the pope
sitting in chair, and is an excellent portrait.
When had looked at it, Mgr. Angel said:
| Now you have seen the picture. the pope wants
| to see You But said. 'monsgnOr / am
not in proper dress to pay him visit When
| they told the pope this he answered. L don't
care what dress he has on. want to him,
| fashion. and when told him how pleased was
with the portrait he had it at once boxed up for
me. and it is down in the custom-house now"
Bishop Keane left Rome March 90 and visited
Vienna, Munich, Bonn. Munster. Fulda and
Cologne and Paris. and inspected the UNIVERSE
ties at those places. In England he conferred
with Cardinal Newman, Cardinal Manning and
! Bishop Vaughan. He said that DIR. Shahan
who went over with him, will remain for three
years in Rome to study ecclesiastical history
D.-l,A
said
PROSPECTS OF THE UNIVERSITY.
1.-THE vice-rector, Father Garrigan, assures
me that everything has progressed splenddlv
while was away, and that We shall have the
divinity wing completed in October, i'll ample
time to open the classes as part of the Catholic
centennial celebration in November. We shall
have sixty students, and am limited to six
professorsphips for the first year. as follows
For dogmatic theology, Rev. DIR. Schroeder, of
the Cologne seminary, one of the most eminent
and learned men in Germany, although he is
but forty years of age. He will give course
that will be brilliant and profound His de-
parture is universally lamented in Germany.
During the Kulture Kamp he taught theology
in Belgium. In moral theology we shall have
Rev. DIR. Banquillon. an eminent professor from
the university at Lille, and the author of
work on fundamental moral theology
recognized as text book of pronounced
ability. In Holy Scripture we will
have DIR. Hyvernat, one of the
greatest psychologists and Psychologists in
the world He will lecture in regard TO the
Old Testament in a manner fully up to the
questions of the day. He was the favorIte
pupil of the celebrated Vigourout of Paris
and has taught for years at the Appolonari
in Rome and the cardinal-vicar regards him as
an irreparable loss. but, he said, we. with our
great opportunities in America, could alone do
justice TO such man. He is forty-eight years
of age. and a native of Lyons. France In
philosophy the professor will be Rev. DIR. JOS
Pohle, of Fulda. During the Kulture Kamp he
taught at the seminary at Leeds. England and
the vicar-general at Leeds SAYS: He Will not
leave better man in Europe He is esteemed
the best mind in Germany and an incalculable
loss to their roll of able men, In English liter
allure we have secured the services of Mr.. Chas
Warren Stoddard, whose reputation here is
we'll known.
OTHER PLANS.
''To these we will add next year professors
of the New Testament and ecclesiastical his
tory who have not yet been decided upon
Lectures will also be given by eminent men on
literary and scientific subjects. Tho students
will be drawn from the best subjects in all the
seminaries of the country who have finished
the ordinary course of theology and wish to
enter on this curriculum of higher studies
We wish to have as many free scholarships as
possible; the fees of the others will be paid by
| themselves or by the bishops of the dioceses
from which they come. 1t Is the intention to
start sort Of university record. but what il
may be has not yet been decided upon. The
| statement that quarterly review will be i'm
mediateiy published is entirely unauthorized
and OF no foundation. 1t may come in time"
| FUTURE MOVEMENTS.
Bishop Keane goes to Boston tomorrow to
| call on Archbishop Williams and the seminary
| there and to call on the other New England
| bishops. He will return to Washington on
| Tuesday week to be present at the reception
| organized here for him. He will then con-
| tinue his visiting tour of the Summaries and
| in June will go ont collecting to Archbishop
| Ireland's diocese Of st. Paul. MINI. He returns
in excellent health and looks stouter than when
| he left here in November.
May Balls.
| Prof. Sheldon's fOrty-second annual May ball
| will take place this evening at National Rifles