The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-20
SA7OLLI TO VIGGHR
Father Corrigans Position
Upheld by the Papal
Delegate.
AN INTERESTING DOCUMENT.
Its Presentation TO The Bishop
Caused A Scene--Father
Corrigan's Efforts.

opSu koktcK ~ AA6 pt6S6 O4 WIG DS4OVt
question, has this to say:
There are Strong efforts bel ng made
In certain quarters TO divert attention
from the school question by repr esentinQ
this discussion a. q mere personal diff
cult y between the Bishop and myself.
This is entirely foreign to the matter. Il
Is true the Bishop was the occasion. at
any rate. of a most u~nprovoked attack on
me in the Herald OF September II an d
IL. for the information which inspired
the two dsfamatory articles. which
was compelled to answer In ] us tics to
myself and my congregation aud the
cs use of The parochtaf school came from
one who conld nave btained-i t only from
the Bishop. officially or otherwise.
IA member Of the Bishops own houses
hold and a professor In his own seminary
and q member of his council has
publicly confessed thai he WAS the author
OF the Communications. I was right, then.
IN saying that the anonymous commuui-
cation emanated from Seton Hall. Let
this man. in the name OK morality and
public decen cy. be removed from the do
cesar college And seminary aud also from
the Bishops council, and that will end
this episode as fur as I am concerned.
q POINT AT ISSUE
"The question at Issue is Lhis:-Is the
proposition GU the school Question In the
United States applicable TO my Darochtal
school or neti II so l am perfectly right
in insisting unon IL. for otherwise I
VIZ uld he indin erent to the best interests
of my parish. There are fnnumerable
arguments in favor OF It and not Que
against 1t, as far as the law of the
Church goes. II / have built a school
house that solves the difi c ulty between
the p%arochial aud the public schools, why
SO much jsalousy-fer this Is the real
truth-on the part Of u few narrow
minded ecclesiastics of foreign proclivi-
ties VINO would see my scnoJl fuiueI q
Thousand times over in order Co c ,sG
odium on myself for the defeat thsy
experienced last year 10 a similar discuss
siou on education?
THE Pope then silenced them but they
are again resumiug the discussion. aud
in a manner that Is an outrage on the
Pope himself, and indicates almost
schfsmatical tendencies. The most
emphatic declarations OF che h sad of che
church are distorted or ignored or utter
.preted in a sense foreign TO his mine aud
most hostile 10 that spirit OF
good will which R,me has 50
studiously and so suecessfully
impressed upon the American mind
LAMENTABLE INExPERIENCE.
1T Is nc wonder that suine Of those
who havs been lifelong iaborsrs for paro-
chinl schools feel discouraged when OBJ
stacles are thrown III their way from
such u source. and OBSTACLES, too. that
come from want of kuo Wedge of tho
real merits of the case. There is hardly
one of these m III VINO are so bitterly Up-
posed to any aud every form of legitimate
compromise that has had experience IN
school matters.
take, for instance, Bishop Messm r. OF
Green Bay, Wis, or even Bishop WIgger
himself. whose only experience was cJn-
fiued TO a mall country school. aud he
even dismissed tue Sisters OF Charity
from this little scnool as soon as he got
control of it and substituted secular
teachers, Bishop Messmer was never
Pastor save for a few months, SO that it
could be said he had been u parish priest
in order to qualify him Go be 4 praciic Vi
bishop and ana Of pHrochtal schools.
in his pastoral letter OF this Inonth ne
plainly shows his Iameutable tnexperi-
| ence, and also his unwiliiugness 10 coin
ply sven with the spirit OF the fourteen
PROPOSITIONS.
HARMFUL ZEAL.
II do not question the good faith of
such men, but their good faith Is caus-
ing much harm by incitiug needless
opposition to the Church and irritating
very many among tue educa ted Cathu-
lies themselves. II d priest dare to raise
his voice against such u policy he Is for
sooth looked upou as al euemy of au-
thorlty aud every means is re-
sorted to by those In author1.
ty or their obsequious friends to
boycott him among the clergy, or ever
among his own parisnioners. Such
means may ap pear 10 succeed for a while.
but, in the providence or God. they may
serve to work out their w defeat.
The following document l would
never have produced had not its delivery
by ME 10 Bishop Wlgger from the hands
OF the Delegate resulted iu that shame
less anonymous attack on me in public
print, which / knew must have CONS
from the Bishop himself officially or
otherwise, Rs no one but the Bishop aud
myself held the secret of its delivery to
him a5 nine O'Clock IN Sunday night
September 3. at Seton Hall. The angry
scene that took place after the reading Of
the document ana my earnest entreaty
that he would avoid scandal, by comply
ing with the strongly expressed wishes
of the Papal Delegate, was refs cted in
the carefully prepared and most defama-
tory aud lying document that immsdi.
ately came from the anonymous pen of q
most intimate member OK tho Bishops
household. When discovered he make,
confession Of his guilt aud attempts to
shield others from responsibility. but he
cannot remove the deadly stain, nor can
it be Washed out by sall the waters of The
rough, rude sea-
MGR sAToLLI'S LETTER.
APOSTOLIC DELEGATIoN
"USITED STATES OF AMERICA.
No. 136.
This number should be
prefixed to the answer. 3
~ AsHIFeToN, D. C..Augnst 81, 1893.
VERY REVEREND ExcELLENcY;-OD the 3lst
OF July last Your Very Reverend Excelisncy
was pleased g write directly to me about a bill
for the parochiai schools OF the state OF Now
Jersey. In this document you expressed your
adverse view. and iaborsd to corroborats 1t with
many ar2ucinents. which. however. to tell you
plainly my CONVECTION, seem to me neither
solid nor eficacious, for they all proceed from
that which Your Excellency thinks might or
could result from any agreement whatsoe yer
upon the schools between the ecclesiasticll aud
CIVIL authorities. The guarantee for the good
management Of schools aud the success OF the
moral and Catholic Instruction of youth should
be, and could be, obtained, aud, under such
conditions, l cannot be persuaded that we
should IN every cass ROMAN In the absolute
exclusiyeness Of any snd every kind OF compro :
mise. M
1.-The Holy Father. 10 making known his min d
relative to my propositions, in his letter to Car
dinal Gibbons. has made It plain that the
eleventh proposition is cpnformable to his views
on the school question aud not at all diverging
from the spirit VI the Baltimore Council, aud to
fnnintain tint such o proposition may prove
detrimental TO Catholic Instruction is an out
rage on the Holy Father himself. This must be
henceforth the rule.
II have soine time since received q document
from the pastor of Hobokeu. Rsv. P. Corrigan,
10 which he demonstrates. and suiidiy. / think.
how necessary and very. Useful it would be not
only Tor bis parish, but for all the city OF Hobo
ken, that Your Exceiiency Should either allow
him the compromise he has proposed to You.
or, at least, you will tolerate Il, as long as facts
do not urge on your mind a contrary determi-