The record-union., 1891-06-29
LUCERNE MEMORIAL.
IT ASKS FOR INTERFERENCE IN
AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
Cardinal Gibbons Says Foreign Catho-
lies Receive All Consider
alton Due Them.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
| BRUSSELS, June 2S.-A letter from
Rome received here yesterday says:
There has been received in Rome me-
mortal addressed to the Cardinals, en-
deavoring to enlist aid in the scheme of
colonizing European priests in the United
States, as heretofore fully described in
these dispatches.
It boldly asserts that the European
Governments must exert themselves to
retain their influence over their emf
grants to the United States The me-
mortal is very long, making over 1900
words.
1t traces the loss of faith by emigration
to:
l. The danger to which their morals are
exposed during the journey.
2. The lack of national priests to re-
ceive and care for the emigrants on ar
| rival in the United States.
3. The pecuniary sacrifices eexacted of
them in the United States for the practice
of their religion.
4. The public schools.
5. Secret societies.
6. The lack of national Bishops
The six points are elaborated most
skillfully, which elaboration is said to be
the work Of Father Villeneuve The
cSDGclalIN
dwelt upon. The field of operation is
confined entirely to the United States.
The political character of the movement
is inadvertently manifested by the state
ment that the European Governments
can no longer regard the matter with in
difference, and that it is of the utmost
importance to them to retain their influ-
ence over their people in America 1t
insists for this purpose only on the pres
ervation of their national language, and
the formation of national societies among
emigrants in the United States.
THEY ARE PROPERLY PROVIDED FOR.
BALTIMORE, June 2S.-Cardinal Glib
bons returned this afternoon from Wash
ington, where he officiated at the dedica-
ton of st. Mary's Catholic Church. The
Cardinal took occasion to refute the state
ments made to the Holy See that the spir-
itual condition and needs of the foreign
speaking Catholics in the United States
was not properly provided. He said in
part:
81 venture to say that the hierarchy of
no country in the world are paying more
attention to the spiritual wants of the
forelgn-bOrn Catholic people than the
prelates in the United States. They are
earnestly endeavoring to have the gospel
preached to them in their native tongue
during the transition period which occurs
before they are absorbed into the Eng
lIsh-Speaklng world around them. Paris
has a large colony of German and Eng
| disappearing Catholics. Vienna and Ber-
lin also have large populations Of French
and English and other nationalities.
1.-THE city of Rio, in Brazil. contains
also a large population Of Catholics who
do not speak Portuguese, the language of
the country, and yet in these great CEN
ters, if / am correctly informed, little or
no provision is made for foreign Catholic
populations.
with these facts before us, we cannot
view without astonishment and indigna-
ton the number of self-constituted and
officious gentlemen in Europe complain
ing of the alleged inattention which is
paid to the spiritual wants of the foreign
population, and to the means of redress
which they have thought proper to sub
nit to the HOly SeeD