The Butler weekly times., 1892-11-02
THE SCHOOLS.
The Controversy Over Archbishop
treland's Plan.
PAMPHLET 1T ROME
The Archbishop ..cra.e;i of Lacking Yer
acity la His Sta:emeHt4-The Claim
That He j. supported BY the
Propaganda Declared
to lie t.rooad-

NEW YORK, Oct. 2S-"The School
Question in the Decision of the Propa-
ganda is the title of an ANONYMOUS
pamphlet published in Rome on Arch
bishop Ireland and the Catholic schools
in Faribault and Saltwater This con-
tribution to the controversy has greatly
interested Rome But little of it is
known here, as only a few copies have
been received and the work is IN Italian.
1t is manifest that the author has lived
in America and is familiar with Ameri-
can affairs But he writes Italian like
a native and is as familiar with canon
law as churchmen. 1t is hinted that
he is NJ. Concillio, the well-lluown pas
tor of St. Michscl's, Jersey City.
The author reviews the school queS-
ton in America from the first plenary
council at Baltimore to the present
time with an account of Archbishop
lrelauds effort to establish schools on
politico-religiou, basis III Faribault
and Saltwater. He charges the arch
bishop with want of veracity on some
points. He says: Archbishop Ireland
| says with much humility that he has
always followed faithfully the decree
of the third council of Baltimore and
that his diocese is much in advance of
most others in supporting the parochial
school system. In another place he
| affirms that according to the official ac-
counts of the Catholic directory
in the diocese of New York the
| parochial schools are a,ten led by only
one Catholic child out OF twenty, where
as in the diocese of 1t. Paul. his own dio-
| ceSe, the attendance is one out OF four
| teen. His grace is required to recon-
slider his facts and to add to his calcula-
| ton of the children that attend the
| parochial schools in the dioce Sc of New
| York the -, 00) Catholic children that
| the diocese maintains and e iucateS in
| orphan aSyiums and other institute ms
The great American prelate atTirms that
the people of Far. and Saltwater
are too poor to maintain a pArochiai
school What proof does he present?
| archbishop Ireland maintains that
| tolerai potest means economically full
appreciation. But it is affirmed that
this expression is neither appreciation
nor permission, but only Il passive act
of authority, which authority, for pru-
Dental reasons, suffers IA particular
thing to exist. We can tiud no reason
why the congregation of the Propa
| ganda should have used the term tolerai
| potest if it meant to signify licet-it is
| lawful There rEjSts many and great
reasons on account of whic n the sacred
congregation would seem to have been
bound to give the most favorable an.
swer possible. In the first place, there
was yet no pronounced legal opposi-
tion in inArchbishop Ireland 5 case; second
| ly. he used IN Rome all his influence in
order to obtain Il decision not merely
tolerative. but the most flvora blc posi-
bic. He was an is Il represented as the
great archbishop OF the United States.
| He represented. III ease OF an unfayora
| bic decision, the possibility, the lilleli
hood Of a kulturilampf in America, by
which the state would exclude the
| Catholic hierarchy from taking part il
education. Besides he was most ably
| defended and protected by Cardina
| Gibbons. who. in his letter directed K
the holy father on the 1SL OF March. be
sought his hol ness to give Archbishop
Ireland so.cmH peoof of his complete
| satisfaction on account of the zeal ans
| wise mana cement OF the great arch
bishop of the west. Notwithstanding
all this the expression tolerai potes
|