Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-17
THE CAHENSLY FIGHT
Bobs Up Again in the Catholic World,
but in Quite a New Form.
DUNNE, OF OHIO, STIRS 1T ALL UP
n Letter Against the Prelates' Arbitrary
Action About
OPIcS FOR THE CHICAGO CONGRESS

ROME, Feb. 16-At the Catholic Con
.ress at Baltimore in 1889 q committee o.
prelates and laymen was appointed to make
arrangements for the Catholic Congress tc
,e held at Chicago in connection with the
Worlds Fair The committee was also
harged with the task of preparing pro.
-ramme Of matters 10 be discussed at this
ongress. Among members of the CON-
nittee was Judge E. F. Dunno, of Ohio.
Under date of December 10, Mr.. Dunno
rrote personal letter to Conde B. Pallen,
dltor of the Clsurck Progress and Catholic
World, of st. Louis, giving his views In re-
ard to certain decisions of this committee.
This letter in some way came into the hands
# Rev. c. Kuhlman, who synfpathized with
he views expressed therein. He mad the
etter put in print and sent copies to all the
Cardinals The letter was received here In
2ome a few days ago, and has created no
little sensation in ecclesiastical circles.
pon,t Like the American Decisions.
Mr.. Kuhlman prefaces Mr.. Dunne's letter
.ith statement over his own name, that
iec1sions reached by the American prelates
With reference to the Catholic Congress to
,e held at Chicago were dIspleasing to HIM
elf to Messrs. Pallsn and Dunno and to
many other Catholics. The authorities at
Rome are, therefore, invoked to overrule
hese decisions.
Mr.. Dunne's letter gives a review of the
history of the committee and Its meetings.
He saws that at the Baltimore Congress a
committee was appointed to organize con-
rress at Chicago. This committee held
meetings at Boston and New York to
settle preliminaries, arrange pro-
yramme, etc. 1t was making harmonious
progress in these directions until at an in
auspicious moment it offered to submit its
decisions to the approval of the Archbishops
IF the church, who should be assembled at
St Louis December l, 1891.
Two Important Questions Submitted.
In the proposed programme Mr.: Dunno
aad inserted as questions OF vital lmpor-
TANGO, The Temporal Power and that of
Catholic Education. The prelates of Bos-
ton, the letter goes on to say, objected to
these questions, but the laymen on the
committee obtained the assent of the New
York prelates to them.
The work of the committee was later sub
mitted to the Archbishops at st. Louis, as
proposed. The Archbishops, who were pre-
sided over by Cardinal Gibbons, changed
the whole plan and took the Congress into
their own hands, recognizing the laymen
of the committee only as auxlllarles. Mr.
Dunno criticses this act of the Archbishops
as a usurpation of authority. He complains
chiefly against Archbishops Ireland, Will
Jams and Feehan. He asserts that Messrs.
Onahan, of Chicago, and O'Brien, of De-
troit, abandoned their fellow laymen on the
committee and played into the hands OF the
Kelly, Karson, Farrelly and Fanster stood
firm. while Mr.. Spannhorst's attitude was
doubtful Bishop Spaulding, Mr. Dunno
SAYS, was the only prelste who defended the
laymen, and he did so feebly.
Archbishop Ireland Favors Social Topics.
Archbishop Ireland, the letter contin-
ues, is reported as saying that the ques-
tions of Temporal Power and of Catholic
Education would be rapidly disposed of by
the congress, whose time ought to be
given to the consideration of social matters.
Early in December, Mr.. Dunno continues,
a meeting was held at Judge Morgan J.
O'Brien's chambers in New York to make
public protest against the Archbishop's
usurpation. At this meeting were present
Messrs Dunno, Kelly, Farrelly and Judge
O'Brien. Judge O'Brien strongly urged
that not nothing be said, and the course
was decided upon, but the record of the
meeting was saved for future use.
Mr. Dunno says that he now breaks 81
lence because he had read in the New York
papers a st. Louis dispatch saying that the
programme of the congress would be de-
voted solely to social questions, making no
mention of the question of Temporal Power
or of Catholic Education. The only vic
tory, Mr. Dunne SAYS in conclusion. scored
by the laymen during the controversy, was
the defeat of Archbishop Ireland's motion
to call the congress the Chicago Social Con-
gress, instead of, as originally decided upon,
the ''Chicago Catholic Congress"
New Form of the Cahensly Fight.
The correspondence has been translated
into italian and has been received, not only
by the Cardinals, but by many lesser eccle-
siasticals at Rome. Special interest attaches
to it this time because Archbishop Ireland
is now here.
The sending of the correspondence to
Rnme is regarded as a continuation of the
Cahensly movement Since last year,
hundreds of documents have been circulated
in Rome from America declaring that the
Catholic church would die If the process of |
Americanizing the church, which Arch |
bishops Gibbons, ireland and Williams are |
said to be leaders in bringing about. should |
be allowed to proceed. Meanwhile, the |
ecclesiastical authorities st the Vatican |
deny that the questions of the Temporal /
Power and Catholic Education are to be |
omitted from the programme of the Catholic
Congress.
A dispatch from Chicago says: Hon.
William jonathan, a member of the Gen
eral Committee and Secretary of the Com
mittee on Organization of the Columbian
Catholic Congress, was tonight shown
dispatch from Rome by an Associated Press
reporter referring TO the circular signed by
Judge Dunno. Mr. jonathan said:
This whole thing is tempest in a teapot.
There is not sufficient ground for assuming
that there has been such a clerical dictation
in proposing and preparing the way for the
congress. Naturally, the bishops of the
church are concerned as to the organization
and outcome of this congress and the pro-
priety of their having a part with the Law
men in the preliminary organization and in
mapping out the scope and the
lines of the congress, goes with
out saying. 1t is not to be a congress
OF laymen alone. The membership of the |
congress will include bishops Drie.ts and |
laymen. L see no warrant at all for the |
views put forward by Judge Dunno in refer |
ence to it. They seem to be the result of die /
appointment, L should say and of fainre to
control and mold the plans of the conqress
according to his own views when the nlan |
OF the congress in their New York meetino
was accepted and concurred in bv the ercL |
bishop at st. Louis.
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