The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-02

the same superintendent as the public
schools, while the pupils III so far as con-
Germs their secular education, are to be
subject to examination in the same way
as those in the public schools. Under
this arrangement Archbishop Ireland
would secure for the Catholic children
all the advantages of the public schools,
their support being had from the public
funds, and yet these schools remain to all
lntents and purposes parochial schools,
supported by the State. OF course Catho-
lie parochial schools are sectarian schools
in the strongest possible sense. The APP
preparation of public money for their
support, either directly or indirectly, is
as much in violation of the American
principles as if the sect so favored were
Baptists, Methodists or Presbyterian"
americans will do well to remember"
says the New York Observer Pres,
that the controversy lin the Catholic
church, is one that concerns administra-
ton and not doctrine. Prelates may diff
fer in their views respecting methods of
work, but there is absolute unity on the
ends 10 be attained. Archbishop Ireland,
while accepting the public school where
it can be made useful, still demands the
Christian State School, that is, the Cath
Ole parochial school. Archbishop Corri
gan may antagonize the liberal faction
in the church on questions of eXpediency,
but his opponents are at once with him
in holding that 1t is an error to believe
that the church ought to be separated
from the State and the State from the
church, Moreover, in the mission of
Mgr. Satolli and the submission to the
Pope of the charges which have grown
out OF his decisions, there is n distinct
avoWal OF the exotic nature of Roman
ism. The Romish Church in America is
not simply plant brought from foreign
SOIL which has taken root in our own,
just as all the evangelical churches have
done, and become so thoroughly Ameri-
can that the only thing foreign about
them is their early history. Romansm
is not American. 1t is Romish, not only
in its early history, but in its present adj
minlStration. Its distinctive principles
are such as to make 1t always such, and
on this account it must ever be a menace
and peril to the highest interests of the
American people. The true ideal of
American liberty and American progress
must be more or less warped and him
dered while fifth or sixth OF our popula-
ton owe TO an Italian Pope the obedi-
ence which they deem more imperative
than that which is due to the Constitu-
ton and laws OF the land in which they
live. The plea that Papal supremacy is
a religious doctrine ought not to be add
mitteu when it comes i'll conflict with
American laws and American loyalty,
any more than the plea that polygamy as
part OF Mormon religion was allowed to
stand in the way of its annihilation."
1.-THE fact, if it be fact, that Archbishop
Ireland has proved himself more saga
cious ecclesiastic than Archbishop Corri-
gan, is OF no consequence" eXclaims the
New York Christian Union. "It is of small
consequence that Father McGlynn has
been restored and Father Corrigan has
not been deposed. What is Significant is
the practically official declaration, COM
ing from The supreme authority of the
church, the Pope himself, through his
special representative, that the Catholic
Church i'll America, though no less loyal
to the Pope, is henceforth to be an Amer
lean Catholic Church; thnt it is to work
for spiritual ends through methods not
inconsistent with American life and in
stituUions; that it is to be the friend not
the enemy, of democracy; that it is to
welcome, not to withstand, universal edu-
cation, nor insist upon guiding that edu-
cation into narrow channels of its own
choosing; that, in short, it recognizes. the
truth, which only the blind can fail to
see, that, for good or i'll, the power in III S
country is, and more and more is to be,
reservoired in the plain people, and that
the spiritual supremacy of the Catholic
Church is to be maintained, if at all, not
over them, but in and through them; not
by their enforced submission, but by
their spontaneous devotion and glad 10y
atty. We heartily welcome these indica-
tions of a new life in the Roman Catholic
Church.