Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-12-24
The Mission Of Satolli.

ST. Paul, MIMI, December 20.-BishoI
Ireland IS reported as saying that he is averst
to talking for the press, but is induced to d.
SO by the garbled reports of the present re
| ported differences among Catholic clericals
He said of the address to the assembled arch
| bishops of Monsignor Satolli, the delegate
of the pope:
1.-The address on the school question cover,
IN its brief enumeration the whole ground
and with master pen marks out the prov
inces of church and state. 10 the church
and to her alone, belongs religious instruc.
ton; but there is, and there can be no OBJ
lection that the the state lay claim to busy
itself with the secular part. The American
people will find, assuredly, naught to gainsay
in these propositions. There Ian be no room
left for the old-time accusation that the
church opposes instruction, or deprecates
the efforts of the state to remove ignorance
from the children of the people.
''Of course, while and where schools of
the state are SO conducted as to prevent in
practice the religious education of the child,
or to endanger its religious faith, Monsi9nor
Satolli demands that Catholics, as far as
circumstances warrant, maintain special
Catholic schools; but he shows plainly the
willingness of the church to do her share
toward parallel action, in virtue of which
religion and secular knowledge are both i'm
parted without one impeding the other |;
without church or state covering one the
sphere of the other. For him the state is no
bugbear, wherewith to be alarmed; it is an
agent fos good, to be honored and to be
benefited, even though it may need at times
direction and aid from its citizens.
1T is most plain by this time to the Amer
lean people, SO that he who runs may read,
that the principles of the American republic
and of American liberty. far from having
anything to fear from the Catholic church,
find in her teachings and influence most
solid support. He who has read the encycli-
Gals of Leo XIII, and observed his action
on Christendom cannot doubt of this. Here
and there individual Catholics may show
astonlsh and discourage; but those Catholics
are not the church, whose chef guardian
and mouthpiece is Leo XIII. Hls grandeur
OF mind, his large views, his knowledge of
his times, his appreciation of learning and of
liberty. his intelligence of modern democ-
racy, No thinking, unparalleled American
will fail to admire.
"a word on this reported difference be-
tween Monsignor Satolli's address and the
resolutions of the archbishops on the school
question: Whatever may be the private
opinion of some prelates, matter of which
know nothing, | am very sure that there
is no contradiction whatever between the
official resolutions of the conference and the
discourse of Monsignor Satolli. The reading
of the resolutions and discourse tells all this.
1t is absurd to suppose that the archbishops
would officially put themselves On record
against the representative of the pope, speak
ing in the name of the pope. They formally
take in their resolutions as the basis of their
conclusions the DEGREES of Baltimore and
the decision of the Holy See. By the words |
and decisions of the Holy See they make |
room for all explanations and developments |
Of the DEGREES of Baltimore which may have |
come from Rome since the holding of the |
as for instance the decision in the |
20 called FaribauIt case, and the very teach |
ing of Monsignor Satolli voicing for Amer |
Ca the mind of Rome"