Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-09-14
WORK or CATHOLICS
Result Of Church Congress subnnit,
ThrOu 1h RAanluti0na.

Result Of Church Congress subnalttoS
Through Resolutions.
CHICAGO, Sept The Catholics have
closed their congress at the Art insti
tute. Before final adjournment . Sc
ries of resolutions were adopted. Of
which the following is synopsis:
The resolutions OF the Catholic congress held
in Baltimore in November. 1880, declaring un
alterable attachment to the pope and thanking
him for sending an apostolic delegate te
America were affirmed. The resolutions
also congratulated the hierarchy ON the
wondrous growth Of the church and
pledged their bishops and priests to
unfaltering devotion and fidelity. There
were dangers .to1 the church requiring
earnest consideration, the most obvious
of which was the growing disconten,
Of those earning their living by manual Ia
Dor All the remedies proposed would
fail il they clashed with the princi.
Piles of truth and justice. The encyclical Of
dorsed as expressive of the views OF the con-
gress on this question. The principle Of arbi-
tration and conciliation was also strongly en-
dorsed, and the appointment OF . committee was
recommended to consider some suitable method
of arbitration which could be widely adopted.
True principles OF Christian morality must be
applied to all social problems, and the forma-
economic literature was recommended
The helpless condition Of Catholic working
girls In large cities was deplOred, and the form
alton of societies for their protection and as
sistance warmly urged The work Of Catholic
life insurance associations was eulogized;
indiscriminate manner in large cities
was touched upon Appropriate measures
should be adopted to encourage and assist
families to settle in agricultural dis tricts.
The vice of intemperance, to which
many OF the sorrows OF the people
could be traced was deeply de.
plored. The temperance and abstin.
ence societies already formed had
done much TO abate this evil, and legislation
looking to the restriction and regulation Of the
sale Of int0xicants was recommended. Cath
olics were everywhere implored to keep out OF
the saloon business.
The trainers Of the resolution then proceeded
to extend to the secular clergy, religious orders
and the laity who were devoting their lives
to the work Of educating the Indian and
the negro the hearty sympathy and co.
operation Of the members Of the congress.
Touching upon the question of education
continued efforts must be made to strengthen
the Catholic parochial schools and Catholic col.
leges. and to bring all educa tional institutions
to the highest standard of excellence. twas the
sense OF the congress that the DEGREES of the
council OF Baltimore should be and the DEGREES
of the holy see upheld in this particular. A
scathing denunciation OF immoral literature fol-
lowed and decided stand against those who
would secularize Sunday was taken The rec
ommendation Of international arbitration
paved the way to the uneQuivocal Endorsement
of Mgr. Satolli's now famous phrase: "Let
our watchword be Forward In one hand the
Gospel OF Christ, and in the other the constitu.
tion of tho United States
After an interesting address by Cardi-
nal Gibbons the congress adjourned
sine die.
After the cardinals address and be-
fore the adjournment took place set
of resolutions was presented by Thomas
P. Fenton, of Lawrence, Ran, sympa-
thizing with the Irish home rulers
over the setback given them by
the English house of lords when the
Gladstonian bill was defeated by a vote
of 419 to Al. Mr. Fenlons resolution
brought up a score of protests. the
point made being that this congress
should steer clear of politics, and that
therefore the resolution was out of
place.
Finally an amendment was presented
which included a vote of sympathy to
the oppressed Catholics of Poland, the
Jews of Russia and the oppressed of al
nations. This was adopted as the ac-
ton of mass meeting, and not that
of the Catholic congress-