Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-11
The Vatican Publishes q Long Arti-
Gle in Defense Of the Popular
Archbishop.
It is an Official Defense of the Ameri.
can Prelate Against His
Adyersarips.
The Archbishop's Prospects for q
Cardinals Hat Now Believed
to be Good.
Direct From tho vatican.

ROME, March "A sensation has been
created in church circles by the publ
cation in The Moniteur Di Roma of an
article, four columns in length, direct
from the Vatican, headed "Monsigneur
Ireland and Calumniators."
It is known that the article is in.
tended for an answer, in behalf of the
pope, to the attacks upon Archbishop
Ireland, of St. Paul, which have fol-
lowed that prelate from America in his
visit to Rome. The archbishop has
been received with the greatest favor
by the pope who is said to be charmed
with his visitor and seriously meditates
making him a cardinal. The assaults
upon Archbishop Ireland in the city ap-
pear to have originated in a difference
Of views as to his school policy, and to
have become more acrid owing to the
divergence between the American
archbishops. with Ireland as their sec
rotary, and the lay committee appoint
ed in connection with the proposed
Catholic church congress at the worlds
fair.
The Article Is Official.
The article processes to be an official
and plenary defense of the archbishop
against his adversaries, American,
Italian and German, and to be intended
to silence, once for all, says the article,
the passionate and contradictory at
tacks which have for some time been
coming to Rome, in a stormy cloud,
from various countries, upon the great
American prelate who is now the guest
of the pope. The angry attacks and
false reports were coincident with the
arrival of the archbishop in Rome, and
accusations were multiplied with the
evident purpose of seeking to establish
a contrast between the policy of the
holy see and the apostolic action of
Archbishop Ireland. The article goes
on to say:
''They say that Archbishop Ireland is
disloyal to the holy see, that he is un-
friendly 10 the true n eInc1enJ %1nuepenu-
ence Of the pope-as though the career of
Archbishop Ireland in America, and his
notable u~tterances in his own cathedral
and elsewhere could be forgotten. They
assert that the archbishop opposes the
ideas of Pope Leo, whereas he is the most
foreseeing admirer and most dooile imi-
tator of the policy of his holiness, which
is to reconcile and to pacify. The ideal of
this distinguished man (Archbishop Ire
land) has been to extend the influence of
the church by taking advantage of the
condition of the times, to follow Catholic
tradition without fearing changes in
forms and situations, to adapt the undying
vitality of the Catholic faith to newly de-
veloped needs, to place religion above
political parties, to unite instead of diyid-
ing: and to Undue the young American
republic with Christian thought, as Pope
Leo sought to Undue the republic of
France. Archbishop Ireland belongs, with
his whole soul, to the school of Pope Leo.
Archbishop Ireland's discourse t Balti-
more echoed the pope's social policy.
"Opposition to the pope underlies the at
tacks upon the American leader, but his
accusers CANNOT darken the glory of the
church and cannot lessen in the United
States the empire of the archbishop who is
to remain the representative Of theinfiuence
of Leo XIII and of Rome in the young and
robust world where are being worked out
new destinies for the church and for civil
ization. The work of religious conquest
and of patriotic u%nification will be carried
to a natural and fruitful result by the CO
operating forces of Rome and the Ameri-
can episcopate despite the effort Of cal
umniators to accomplish the impossible
result of estrangement from his holiness
an incompatible auxillery.'
This article is considered all the more
surprising as the critics of Archbishop
Ireland have e%ndeavored to impress
upon Rome the idea that the archbishop
was not friendly to the restoration Of
the temporal power Of the papacy. It
is now acknowledged on all sides that
Archbishop Ireland's prospects are ex.
cellent for q cardinals hat at the next
consistory.,