The Irish standard., 1892-12-17
MoNsIGNoR sAToLL.1.


United States in macy years who has
been the subject Of so much speculation
and critic SIN as Mgr. Satolli. the Pope's
representative to the Worlds Fair. Since
the conference Of the American Arch
bishops in New York last month, ct
which the papal legate defined the posi-
ton OF the Holy See on the school ques-
ton, the public has been told all kinds
Of silly and contradictory stories about
the illustrious Italian, and his mission.
The representatives Of the American
news agencies .draw upon their fertile
imaginations and send out every day to
the secular press of the country column
upon column Of concocted interviews
with unknown persons in Washington,
Baltimore, New York and st. Louis, all
relating to Mgr. Satolli and his oensori-
Gus critics. The news is dlshed up in the
most palatable style of sensational jour
nalism, and the gullible Protestant pub
lie ds,our it with avidity and swallow it
without digestion. Not SO with the
O,tholic readers. They know that it the
Pope has sent representative to this
country with plepary powers in ecclesl-
astlcal and disciplinary matters. he will
be treated with difference by the Ameri-
can hierarchy. It is we'll known that for
three years there has been much discus
sion going on within the American
Church on the educational plan inau-
gurated by Archbishop Ireland ut Fari-
bault to harmonise the Catholics and
our separated brethren on the school
question. The matter was submitted to
the papal authorities for adjudication,
and q decision was rendered favoring the
plan whenever and wherever it was
practicable and advisable. The "tolerari
potest" of the Vatican, however, wa,
variously interpr, ted by learned theolo-
glans and publicists, and it was evident
that the opponents of the plan desired a
more definite decision on the question
before they withdrew their opposition.
They received the papal decision ''in ex-
tensor from Mgr. Satolli at the recent
conference of the archbishops in New
York, and translated synopsis OF the
q ldress of the Pope's representative has
been published for the information OF all
concerned. The d ctum of Mgr. Satolli
unquestlonably endorses the school
policy of the St. Paul prelate, and dis
patches from the Eternal City declare
that the views promulgated on the sub
ject by the papal envoy are those of the
Holy Father himself. We give few
extracts, as follows, from Mgr. Satolli's
address: "Hence, absolutely and uni
yersal'y speaking, there is no repug-
nance in their learning the first elements
and the higher branches Of the arts and
natural sciences in public schools con-
trolled by the state, whose Office it is to
provide and protect everything by which
it's citizens are formed to moral goodness,
while they live peaceably together, with
a sufiency OF temporal goods, under laws
propagated by civil authority" Again
he says: "trhe Catholic Church in gene
raj, and especially the Holy See, far from
condemning or treating with Indifference
the public schools, desires rather that
by the joint action of civil and ecclesias-
tical authorities there should be public
schools in every state, according as the
of the people require, for
the cultivation of the useful arts and ma
tural sciences; but the Catholic Church
shrinks from those features of the public
schools which are opposed to the truth
of Christianity and to morality; and
since in the interest OF society itself
these Objectionable features are remov-
able, therefore, not only the bishops, but
the citizens at large, should labor to re-
move them, in rlue of their own right
and IN the cause of morality" The papal
delegate continues: "No reproach either
in public or private, shall be cast upon
Catholic parents who send their children
to private schools, or to academies where
q better education is given under the di-
rection of religious or approved by Gath
ol1o persons, if they make sufficient pro-
vision for tho religious training OF their
children" Finally, he recommends that
an agreement be entered into between
the bishops and the school boards, where
by they can, in the spirit of fairness and
good will, allow the Catholic children to
be assembled during intermissions from
secular studies to be taught the Chris
tian doctrine. Such an authoritative pro.
nouncement as this, delivered by the
Pope's accredited envoy, should settle
the school question as far as Catholics are
concerned. "Rome has spoken" and
peace and harmony should henceforth
prevail in the ranks of the hierarchy d
members OF the American church.
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