The Irish standard., 1892-03-26
VIVA I: It Re VEAL,S
An Interesting Translation From
Moniteur de Rome Of March /.
~ That Has the
STAMP OF OFFICIAL NATURE,
Archbishop Ireland and His De.
tractors Made the Subject for.
an Important Article.

THE IRISH STANDARD takes pleasure
in furnishing to the public the following
article. It was received at this Office on
Thursday from the Catholic University,
Washington, D. c., and is translation
by Rev. Tnos. O'Gorman from a recent
issue of The Moniteur de Rome. It Gov
ers matter of vital importance and will
be found of an exceedingly interesting
nature throughout. The article, as trans
lated, reads as follows:
For some time back there has come to
us from some horizons and countries a
storm-cloud of passionate and contradic-
tory attacks against a great American
prelate, now the guest of the Holy Father
in Rome. Mgr. Ireland, Archbishop of st.
Paul, Minnesota, in the United States.
The coincidence of anger lies with his
visit mol imina, the number of accusa-
tions, the evident intent of them, the
bad faith that pierces through them, the
antagonism the detraotors set up be.
tween the policy of Leo XIII. and the
apostolic action of the American Law
gerie-all this goes to prove that we are
in the presence of a campaign of per6dy
and machiavellianism, such as the his
tory of the Church too often reveals in
the past. .'' ~ =
The more artful and noisy of the lying
calumniators spew out their venom in
the columns of the Meme Erie Presse, OF
Vienna, and the Corriere di Napoli. 1t
is strange to behold Protestant and
Catholic Americans hand in hand in this
campaign with offcious Italians and the
journalistic upholders of the triple ALI
ance. Drawing inspiration from sources
not above suspicion nor difficult to guess
these pamphleteers rush about repeating
that Archbishop Ireland, because he is
enlightened and moderate, denies the
temporal power and is in direct and per-
sonal opposition to the ideas of His Hol-
mess, Leo XIII. The Meme Erie Presse
rises to the melodramatic, and sets up
before it's readers ludicrous' scene be-
tween the Pope and his honored guest in
which this latter is made to pronounce
an heretical speech. We can hardly
bring ourselves to refute the impudent
lying. Mgr. Ireland needs not our de-
tense. Yet review Of the facts con-
tains q lesson, reveals designs too
shameful to be openly owned and will
turn to the advantage of the papal cause
The Corriere di Napoli puts in play a
trick of utter dishonesty. It pretende
to give discourse of the Archbishop'e
against the Pope's sovereignty. The
mode of operation is worthy of Voltaire
in keeping with his warfare against
Christianity -invention and lying. The
Neapclitan editor takes an article of the
Pail Mall Gazette. Dec. 2, '89 and palms
it off for discourse of the Archbishop
The Pail Mall man giving way to Chi.
merical exaggerations-though we must
do him the justice that he shows sympa-
thy for the future of Rome and the
Church--starts out with praise of the
thrilling and glowing sermon pronounced
by Mgr. Ireland at the Baltimore Cen.
tenary, sermon that has gone the round
of the globe. Then carried away by the
force and beauty OF the prelate's Ian
guage, he passes into comment and calls
it the dream of Protestant Now the
Corrlere gives the article of the Pail
Mall, and, without wink, fathers it on
the Archbishop. That is the trick
Celius aud Voltaire we're never more art.
full and insolent. 1mprudent men Dc
they know the history of the United
States? Do they think we know it not:
It is the American episcopate
that episcopate so admirable, sc
full of the mems dlvinior, it is a
member Of that hierarchy, Mgr. Ireland
who have indicated with boldness and
precision unrivalled the liberty full and
entire of the Roman pontifcate. On the
sacredotal Jubilee of Leo XIII. he
preached in the cathedral of st. Paul
a sermon to which newspapers gave q
wide circula ion. He spoke of the great
ness of the papacy in the past and Of
Leo's reign in whom are so marvelously
gathered the glories of the past. "Can q
power" said he in conclusion, "such as
the papacy that is instituted to stand
above and over all nations, that is set on
the very apex Of humanity, can such a
power. if it be true to its own dignity
and the majesty Of Him it represents, al
low any earthly potentate to eclipse and
control it? No, the papacy must be alb
solutely sovereign, absolutely indepen-
dent. Liberty from all fetters is the
mn 1itirr, n tho fn1f311noant in tho 1uorId