Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-16
THIS CATHOLIC CONGRESS.
Scope of the Great Gathering at ohioa go


important Topics Under Discussion.
CHICAGO, Sept .. The congress which
closes to-day has been most sue
cessgul one, many of the most promi-
nent men in the Roman Catholic church
having addressed it on questions of the
hour Among them have been the
rights and duties of labor and capital,
public and private charities in
temperance, woman's work, Cath
olic interests and education. The
gathering has been formally recog-
nized by Pope Leo XIII. and kas been
addressed by such eminent prelates as.
Mgr Satolli, Cardinal Gibbons, Arch
bishop Feehan, Archbishop Coirigan,
Archbishop Ryan, Archbishop Ireland
and many others.
Wednesday night Archbishop Ireland,
of st, Paul, addressed an immense au-
dience He declared that history would
bear him out in the assertion that the
followers of no creed were more pa
triotic than those of the church of Rome.
In the words of Mgr. Satolli, the
papal representative in America, ut
tered from the same platform the day
before, Archbishop Ireland declared
that their motto was: Press forward,
bearing the doctrine of the church in
one hand and the constitution of the
United States in the other"
CHICAGO, Sept. The Catholic con-
grcss yesterday listened to eleven pa
pers upon a variety of subjects of inter.
est to the church. In the course
of its proceedings the congress
adopted and gave its official sane
ton to memorial on arbitration
presented by committee of different
religious denominations. This memo
rial is to be presented to all civilized ma
tions as representing the united
sentiment of the churches of the
''the spectacle presented of Chris
tian nations facing each other
with heavy armaments and threaten
ing to go to war and settle their differ
ences by bloodshed or conquest is a blot
upon the fair name of Christian, and it
will be happy day for the world when
all international disputes find peaceful
solutions
Woman's work in art and literature,
the work of Catholic societies and the
condition and future of the negroes and
the Indians We're the subjects treated
of at the Catholic congress Thurs
day, and the speakers were Eliza Allen
Starr, of Chicago, Eleanor C. Don.
nelly, of Philadelphia; Katharine E
Conway, of Boston; Rose Hawthorne
Lathrop William F. Marloe, of St
! Paul; Joseph A. Herman, of New York;
Rev. John B. Slattery, of Baltimore;
I Charles II, Butler, of Washington
! Rt. Rev. James McGolrich, of Duluth
and Rev. r. q. Lantz, of Belmont, Ill
Archbishop Corrigan, of New York
addressed an audience of 5000 person:
! Thursday night upon the work of the
church in connection with the exposi
| tion.
Fridays session was given over tt
| those who are high in Catholic educa
tional matters and papers We're prepared
for it by Rt Rev. John j. Keane
of the Catholic University o
America; DR. Maurice Francis Egan
of the University of Notre Dame
Brother Azarias, of Manhattan college
who has died since his paper was pre-
pared; Rev. John I. Murphy, of Hol,
Ghost college; Elizabeth A. Cronyn, o
Buffalo, and Brother Ambrose, who ha
charge of the Catholic worlds fair edu
cational exhibit.
Bishop Keane concluded his address
by submitting resolutions recognizing
Christian education as the most poten
agency for the wise solution of tn
great social problems now facing man
kind and eulogizing the wisdom of tn
American hierarchy and Pope Leo i
founding the Catholic university a
Washington and pledging active &C
operation in making it one of the chic
glories of the Catholic church and c
the American republic.
The hall of Washington was packe
Friday evening. The meeting was dc
voted to the discussion of the colore
Catholics. Archbishop Elder said tn
negroes asked for industrial equality
and the first thing in industrial equa
ity was the owning of land. Let thi
land be kept for negroes alone. Civ
them a chance" he said. They neve
have had d fair showing. There shoul
be 100 families in colony; the Ian
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payment No liquor should be pc
mitted.'
A resolution was passed that as
fruit of the brotherly love of the Catl
olics they pledge themselves to the n
gro's cause.
The colored Catholics issued an al
dress of fraternal greeting to II
church at large and plefging loyalty
the faith.
Among the many notable gathering
. in connection with the Catholic col
gress was a meeting of the Cathol
. press, attended by representatives of tt
leading Catholic papers throughol
the country Rev. Father Malon
of the Colorado Catholic, calle
the attention of the assemblas
to the widespread scandal cause
by publishing anonymous attacl
upon certain exalted personages in I'll
church. He offered resolutions whiC
} were unanimously adopted, condeml
: ing such attacks and approving the e
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