St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-28
MoNs1GNoR sAroLLE..

The recent visit of this very dlstin-
guished eccleslastic to our city is
source of satisfaction and qualification
to our people, and his expected return
from the West, to remain with us as the
guest of our beloved bishop, JOHN IRE
LAND, for brief s0journ, is looked for
ward to with pleasure. This sentiment
is not due entirely to the fact OF his eX-
allied position in the Catholic church,
and his close relations to the venerable
head of that church, although these
attributes necessarily carry with them
their proper force in recommending him
to our esteem and hospitality, but
rather because his advent is marked by
new declaration of the church Of its
growing liberality and expanding dem
ocratic tendencies. He brings to us
from the holy see assurances that the
church is willing that the Catholic
youth. may attend our public schools
without censure. This is great step
in advance of the educational doctrines
heretofore held by the church, it having
been considered wrong for Catholic
parents to allow their children
to patronize the public schools.
We recognize in this liberal tend
ency of the church the work of Arch
bishop JOHN IRELAND. He long since
discovered that the church must keep
pace with the widening aud broaden
ing federation of the age and the re-
public, and that if it is to keep its
place among the leading Outstanding
| and civiliZiDg agencies of the times, 1t
must yield its exclusiveness, and get in
touch with the ideas and tendencies of
the nineteenth century. The Catholic
church, of course, believes that all edu-
cation of the young should be accom-
| panied with religious training, and that
training should be Catholic, while the
universal sentiment of the American
people outside of the Catholic church is
that no religious teaching whatever
should be admitted into the public
schools. There can be no doubt at all
of the correctness of this latter view,
because there are so many SectS and re-
ligious denominations in America that
any other plan would result in the utter
decentralization of all public education.
While Americans of all grades respect
religion generally, and tolerate every
one in his peculiar views concerning it,
they regard it as purely personal mat
ter, which every one must decide FOL
himself, and relegate all religious edu-
cation to the family and the church
withdrawing it absolutely from the state
or the public schools. The success o.
this plan emphatically demands its con
tinuance, and it must never be depart
ed from.
Bishop IRELAND has long since rec
ognized this almost univeral sentiment
and, after trying several experiments
which have been known as the Earl
bault and Saltwater plans, withou
marked success, has, with his custom
ary wisdom and patriotism, concluded
that, wherever Catholic parents wlsl
their children to enjoy the benefits o
the public schools, they will not be in
terfered with by the church. He ha
convinced the pope of the soundnsss o
these views when applied in thi
country, and his holiness has delegate
Monsignor SAToLLI to America t
! proclaim them among other change
deemed for the benefit of the Catholi
element that forms so large and grow
; !, ingdMpart of the population of the re
!. public. 1t anything was needed to il
crease the love and admiration whic
our people feel towards Bishop Ire
g LAND, this tolerant stand he has take
4 on public education has done the worl
b We repeat that the visit of the pap;
a ablegate to ST. Paul is subject of re
/, ioicing. No religion is conducive to ii