St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-14
Roman Catholics in Germany
Resent Harsh Criti-
eism.
The Framep Of the Lueepne
Petition Again States His
Position.
Impressive Scenes Witnessed
at Father Mollinger's
Church.
Many Thousands Of Pilgrims
Flock to st. Anthony's
Shrine.

BERLIN, June 13. There is no deny
ing the fact that the strong adverse
criticisms OF the society of ST. Raphael
are deeply resented by the Roman
Catholics of the empire. Herr Cahensly,
the member of the Prussian diet, who
has long taken special interest in the
question of immigration to America,
and the secretary of the society was
interviewed to-1ay upon the subject
of the adverse criticisms. Herr
Cahensly said during this conversation ::
1.-The Society of st. Raphael does not
represent any special Roman policy, but
on the contrary it is composed of prom
lnent5 Roman Catholics who belong to
many of the principal nations of Eu-
rope. The only aim of our society is to
protect emlgrants-nOt Catholics alone,
though, naturally, they are our prin-
cipal care-but any Protestant or Jew
applying to us or our agents is equally
cared for. 1t is true that, among other
things,
We Asked the Pope
that, so far as possible, the American
bishops appointed should belong to the
nationality composing the majority OF
Catholics residing in any particular do
cese. 1t is a we'll known fact that the
Irish in America try to obtain all the
biShoprics possible for themselves, as
they did in the case of the archbishopric
OF Milwaukee, when. with the exception
OF Archbishop Corrigan, they all tried
to defeat the election of German.
we do not wish to inter
fere with the conduct of the
Catholic church in America, nor
do we wish to interfere in
American politics. All we desire is to
have an Italian or German bishopric
wherever they are the majority, ,as much
as possible. When / was in Rome the
cardinal archbishop of Vienna called
my attention to the danger threatening
in this direction. He said. How can
men arriving in America, ignorant of
the English language, which will take
them years to acquire, understand the
teachings and advice of a priest whom
they do uot understands Continuing,
he said: "We acknowledge the good
work done by the Irish in the
Service of the Church
in America, but we also wish to protect
the interests of German and other Cath
olic emigrants. The idea of a double
jurisdiction is preposterous, Each
bishop is supreme in his own diocese
and subject only to the pope. Irish or
German, each bishop should be supreme
in his own diocese" From another
source the Associated Press CORE
spondent obtained view of a second
memorial which has been distributed to
all the cardinals in the interest
of Herr CahenSly's scheme. This Sec
ond memorial was drafted and
printed with the greatest secrecy. 1t
recapitulates the arguments and state
mn re .Ar .i0l
lished in New York on May 2S, aud as
serts that the great loss in the number
OF the faithful in America is due to the
absence of Catholic schools. The sec
ond memorial also quotes statement as
coming from the Catholic Review, of
New York city, to the effect that $780,
600 Catholic children are lost to the
faith each year in New York alone. 1t
also asserts that the Irish priests in
America are adverse to the parOchiai
schools and that they do not found
them in every place where it is possible
to found them.
The Second Memorial
Also states that foreign Catholics are
forced to pay for the privilege of entry
into Catholic church and continues
arguing in favor of nationalizing Catho.
lie bishops in the United States, claiming
the plan is supported by the most dis
tinguished representations OF the coun-
tries from which the tides OF emigra-
ton flow and asserting that the adop-
ton of the project would increase the
influence of the holy see and agument
the yearly amount of Peters pence.
The first of the memorials referred to
as already announced, was pre-
sented to Leo XIII by Herr
Cahensly in May. This memorial was
formulated last December at Lucerne.
by the conference of the representa-
tives of Catholic emigration societies of
different countries. Herr Cahensly
called the Lucerne conference, as he
had done in the case of similar confer
ences held at Liege. The active part
Herr Cahensly has taken in behalf of
German Catholics has brought him into
close, and, it is understood, very friend
ly relations with Herr Won Schloezer,
the representative of Germany at the
Vatican. Herr Cahensly is also under
stood to have the support at Rome of
the AustroH hungarian representatives