The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-28
CATHOLIC BISHOPS.
The Conservation of Three Of
Them at st. Paul.
CATHOLICS AS AMERICA AN CITIZENS
Their Position Defined-Three Franciscan
Nuns are Imprisoned for ImpOsture-The
Spread of Influenza.

ST. PAUL, Dec. 27.-This city was the
scene this morning of an event of more
than ordinary interest to churchmen in the
conservation of three new bishops with all
the august rites and imposing ceremonials
of the Roman Catholic church. The cere-
mony was conducted by Archbishop Ire
land, assisted by the Most Rev. Thomas L..
Grace The priests on whom the rites
were conferred were Rev. John Stanley,
iSof st. Paul; Rev. James McColrick, of
: Minneapolis, and Rev. Joseph b. Cotter, of
Winona. The papal briefs, which were
read by the resident bishops notary in full
first in Latin and then in English, ap-
pointed Bishop Stanley to the see Of North
Dakota, while Bishop McColrick goes to
the diocese of Duluth, and Bishop Cotter
will have charge of the diocese of Winona.
The doors of St. Peters cathedral were
thrown open at 9 o'clock and before 10
o'clock over three thousand threnged the
edifice. There were sixteen bishops in the
procession, in the ranks of which figured
also nearly three hundred priests. 1t was
a superb and impressive spectacle.
Rev. A. S. Walter Elliot, of New York,
delivered the conservation sermon. 1t was
an elaborate and scholarly review of the
Catholics affirmed that the Catholics will
eventually devour this land and its liber-
ties and its government but the men who
We're to-day made Catholic bishops had
distinguished themselves as removers of
obstacles to the truth and that did not look
like it. In closing his magnificent ex-
ordium the learned preacher passed on to
the subject of agnosticism, which he
denounced as the greatest enemy
of our times. Not that he de
precated thought in religious affairs,
far from it. The modern soldier of the
cross, too, should not be over drilled.
1.-THE perfect soldier is machine" said
some one to General Grant; and that great
warrior had replied Eyes, but the Amer
Z lean is a machine with a thinking attach
ment.h A remark more true of the Amer
lean Catholic. The fate of Catholicity in
I the United States would depend upon
whether it purified politics, sanctitied the
family and elevated manhood. Was the
American state progressive? The Catho-
lie church taught that true religion is es-
sentially progressive. Did the American
state postulate human dignity and equal
ity! Catholicity taught that man was
made after a divine model and all were
equal in their essential charactistics. Did
Americans love intelligence! Catholicity
demanded it, for it was a religion of
exact principles. In closing the speaker
said: Il do not believe you have exchanged
your places as distinguished priests for
those of obscure bishops. Do not sink into
men of routine, mere yes, mere officials.
Do not become what your enemies falsely
accuse our bishops of being, chief clerks
in the Pope's ecclesiastical employment
bureau. Lead your people in all good
works of religion and morality and philan-
thropy and all that helps to make men,
both citizens and neighbors, better men as
well as Christians. The true bishop is the
peoples bishop