Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-22
THE PONTIFF'S LETTER
Authoritative Utterance on the
 School Question.
sAToLLps POSITION ENDORSED

The Decrees of the Council of Baltim ore Regarding Public Schools Remain in Full Force-Regard of the Pope for American Institutions.
 WASHINGTON, June 22- The official translation of Pope Leo's letter on the American school question, as given out by Cardinal Gibbons, has been read with the greatest interest here, as it fully endorses the views advocated by Archbishop Sa- tolli, the Papal Ablegate.
 It shows the Pope's love for America eulogizes Mgr. Satolli. gives tbe twofold purpose of his mission; his position on the school question explained to the arch bishops in New York, misunderstood by others, is indorsed by the Pope, who de- clares it to be in harmony with the Coun- cil of Baltimore, which remains in it's in. tegrity.
 The correspondence consists of letter from Cardinal Rampolla, inclosing the Pope's encyclical letter itself. In the letter the Holy Father says: We have often given manifest proofs both of our solicitude for the welfare of the faithful people and bishops of the United States of America and of the peculiar affection with which we cherish that portion of our Savior S flock. Of this i've have given an addi- tional and unmistakable evidence in send ing to you as our delegate our venerable brother Francis, Titular Archbishop of Lepanto, an illustrious man, not less pre- eminent by his learning than by his Vir- tues as you yourselves, in the recent meet ing of the archbishops in New York, have plainly testified, thus confirming the trust which we had reposed in his pru- dence.
 Now, his legation had this for its first object-that it should be a public testi- monial of our good will toward your coun- try and of the high esteem in which we hold those who administer the government of the republic; for he was to assist in our name at the dedication of the universal Exposition held in the city of Chicago, in which we, ourselves, by the courteous in vitation of its directors have taken part.
 But his legation had this also for it's purpose-that our presence should be made, as it were, perpetual among you, by the permanent establishment of an apostolic delegation at Washington.
 Now, in our fraternal solicitude for your we'll being we had above all given com mand to the Archbishop of Lepanto that he should use all his endeavors and all the skill of his fraternal charity for the eXtir- patton of all the germs of dissension de- veloped in the too well-known controver- sies concerning the proper instruction of Catholic youth; dissension whose flame was famed by various writings published on both sides. These commands of ours our venerable brother fully complied with, and in the month of November of last year he repaired to New York, where there had assembled with you, beloved son, all the other archbishops of your country, they having compiled with the desire which had communicated to them through the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda that, after conferring with their suffrasans, they should join counsels and deliberate concerning the best method of caring for those Catholic children who attend the public schools instead o1 Catholic schools
 When the meetino of archbiShOns had