The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-17
A CONFERENCE PROGRAMME.
Proposed Catholic Congress to Be Held Dur
ING the Worlds Fair

Proposed Catholic Congress to Be Held Dur
ing the Worlds Fair.
ROME, Feb. 16-At the Catholic Confer
ence in Baltimore in 1889 a committee of
prelates and laymen was appointed to make
arrangements for a Catholic Congress to be
held in connection with the Worlds Colum-
bian Exposition. and charged with Drepar-
ing a programme. Among the laymen was
Judge F. L, Dunno Of Ohio. Under date Of
December 10. Dunno wrote a personal letter
to Editor Fallen Of the Church Progress
and Catholic World, Of St Louis, giving his
views in regard to certain decisions OF this
committee. This letter in some way came
into the hands of Rev. c. kuhlman. who
sympalhIzed with the views expressed
therein, had the letter put in print and sent
copies to all the Cardinals. One Of the let
teIs was received in Rome few days ago
and has created considerable excitement in
ecclesiastical circles.
KuhlInan preiaceS Dunne's letter with
statement over his own name to the
effect that the decisions reached by the
American prclates were displeasing to him
self, Pallen, Dunno and many other Cath0-
lies. and nvokes Rome to oyerrule these
decisions. Dunno, In his letter, reviews the
work OF the committee arranging the pro-
gramme, etc, and says that it was making
harmonious progress until, at an inauspici-
Gus moment, it was decided to submit the
decisions for approval 10 the ArchbiSh0ps
and Bishops who should be assembled at
ST. Louis on December /, 1890.
THE PROGRAMME CHANGED.
In the proposed programme Dunno as
serted rs questions of vital Importance.
temporal power and the question of
Catholic education" The Archbishops, who
were presided over by Cardinal Gibbons,
changed the whole plan and took the con-
gress into their hands. recognizing the lay
men as auxiiares only. Dunne criticizes
this as usuTpatOu of authority; complains
chiefly against Archbshops Ireland, Will
Jams and Fehan; asserts that Onahan Of
Chicago and O'Brien Of Detroit abandoned
their fellow-laymen ana placed them into
the hands OF the prelates. "Early in De-
cember," says Dunno, "a meeting was held
at Judge O'Brien's chambers In New York
for the purpose of making public protest,
but 1t was decided that nothing be said"
Dunno says he now breaks silence because
he has read IN the papers that the pro-
gramme would be devoted solely to social
questions.
The sending of this correspondence to
Rome is regarded as continuation of the
CahenslY movement. Since last year hun
dreds of documents have been circulated in
Rome declaring that the Catholic church
would die If the process of AmericaniZing
it, in which Cardinal Gibbons and Arch
bishops Ireland and Williams are the lead
ers, is allowed to proceed. The authorities
at the Vatican deay that the questions of
temporal power and Catholic education are
TO be omitted from the programme.
DUNNE's DISAPPOINTMENT.
CHICAGO, FeS lev. j. Onahan, one of
the members of the Committee on Organi-
ZatiOn of the Catholic congress, when
shown the dispatch from Rome tonight,
coli bOl 10 in taa
pot" There was not sufficient ground for
assuming that there had been clerical dicta-
ton in preparing the way for the congress.
lie sees no warrant at all for the views put
forward by Judge Dunno, and said in regard
10 them: They seem to be the result of dis
appointment and of failure to control and
mold the plans of the congress according 10
his NUN Uioyvc