Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-17
Monsignor SatOlli Has Full
Papal Power.
10 Oppose Him Is to Oppose
Leo Himself.
The Report Of His Being Recalled
Is Absurd.
Archbishop ireland Tells All About
the Papal Delegates Mission to
This Countrywide School
Question Settled.
BY the Associated Press.


Sr. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 16.-Arch
bishop Ireland talked at length today t
a representative of the Associated Pres
on the mission of Moneignor Satolli ant
the extent of his powers, his statemen
being particularly interesting in view 0
the controversy now on in regard to thi
matter.
Archbishop Ireland said the repor
that Satolli had been recalled or is likely
to be soon, is absurd, This report, ane
others revealing similar animus, ars
inventions Of parties suffering de-
feat from his presence. He represents
the pope, and opposition to him is op-
position to the pope. He was sent di'
ops the mind OF Leo on the school ques.
tion, and he did it. This question had
Tor some time agitated the church in
America, and cry went up ceaselessly
that Rome should speak and re-estab-
lish peace. Rome resolved to do SO,
and the address OF Satolli was put in his
mouth by the pope before leaving home
1t has since been reported to the pope
verbally and received his approval.
This positive, undepiable fact of the
controversy is finally settled.
Satolli alec received the amplest pow
ers to settle all disputes between bish-
ops and priests. In each case he is to
have two assistants chosen from emil
nent members of the clergy, and his
decision is to be absolutely without
appeal. The authority with which he
is invested is unusual, but this elbows
that the pope puts unusual confidence
in him. Nearly So dioceses in the
United States and numerous church
cases are awaiting settlement, some of
them very important and far reaching
To maintain, as heretofore, a court of
last appeal in remote Rome Is to render
very difficult and tedious the proceed
ings leading to a conclusion.
The pope has conferred boon on
all parties, said the archbishop, by plac.
ing, for q time at least, eupreme tri-
bunal in America. OF course no prelate
occupying himself q see in America,
however high placed, could serve as
judge in cases where his brother re-
iates are entangled. Some important
cases are already before Satolli. He has
a further mission to inform himself &C.
curately about American ecclesiastical
affairs in general, and report regularly
thereon to Rome. AS time goes on and
new emergencies arise he will receive
other specific powers, and the arch
bishop thinks he will soon be invested
with the title and all the extensive
powers of regular delegate apostolic.
The archbishop added that Satolli's
address on the school question covered
the whole ground; that to the church,
and to her alone, belong religious in
struction, but there is and can be no
objection that the state lay claim to busy
itself with the secular part. There 10
no room for the old acquisition that
the church opposes or deprecates the
efforts of the state to remove ignorancs
from the children of the people. Of
course, while and where state schools
are conducted 80 as to prevent in prac.
tice the religious education of child
or to endanger its religious faith, Satolli
demands that the Catholics, so far as
The circumstances warrant, maintain
special Catholic schools, but shows
plainly the Willingness of the church to
do her share toward parrellel action in
virtue of which religious and secular
knowledge are impaired without one
impeding the other; without the
church or the state covering the sphere
of the other.