Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-01-19

tracted a severely cold spell as that which
we have been experiencing is unusual and
it has few parallels in the memory OF the
present generation. With the mercury reg
istering from zero to thirty and forty de-
grees below at frequent intervals during
three weeks in various parts Of the State,
Vermonters have forgotten all about wor-
rying about the failure of the ice crop.
The Catholic Controversy.
The controversy in the Roman Catholic
church which is now attracting large de-
gree of public attention has assumed varied
and interesting phases since the appearance
in this country Of the pope's ALLOCATE
Archbishop Satolli. Tho trouble began
with the discussion of the Faribaut school
plan advocated by Archbishop Ireland, but
the range of the controversy has been ex-
tended so that it now includes ell phases OF
the school question in the United States, the
reinstatement OF DR.. McGlynn, the relations
of the vatcsn and Archbishop Corrigan of
Now York and the character and
extent of the mission of Satolli. The de-
gree of esperity which the controversy has
reached lie indicated by the fact that Arch
bishop CorriGan OF New York is freely
charged with conspiracy by the Ireland
party, and one of his epistles is referred TO
es 'Ietter of assassination
Tho discussion is said TO have a deeper
meaning than is indicated By any one of the
incidents which ore most talked about just
st present, however. Arcbbshop Cor
rigGn and archbishop Ireland are
the leading representatives of two parties
in the Roman Catholic church. The former
favored the exercise of the authority OF the
church over all public institutions possible
and advocated hostility to the public schools
with the Interior purpose OF forcing an APP
preparation of public funds for the support
of the perochiel schools. The Corrigan i'll
fuence YVES dominant in the Baltimore
council and the decrees of that body In rela-
ton to schools are said to have been ex-
Getty what he desired. The Faribault plan
of compromise between the Catholic and
public SCHOOLS was condemned as wicked
and dangerous, and the prevailing tendency
appeared to be to force every parish to es-
tablish its own parochial schoole.
After brief period, however, a complete
revolution seems to have taken place as re-
CARDS the attitude OF the vatican toward
tbs public tchool system in this country,
and 1t is very significant that it took place
soon after the pilgrimage Of Archbishop
Ireland to Romo last year. As q result the
Faribault school plan was tolerated in
place of being condemned and Archbishop
6atol, IS the fully empowered ALLOCATE Of
the pope, was sent here for the special pur-
pose OF settling the school question. The
fourteen propositions submitted in the name
Of the pope at tho meeting OF the
erchbshops in New York in point
of fact moro than sustained Archbishop Ire
land. To the chngrin of Archbishop Corri-
gan it was decided that it was no sin for
Catholics to petroni2o American schools
and that they should freely do so where
there were no parochial schools or where
the Catholic schools were distinctly inferior
to the public schools. This robuR in addi-
ton to the reinstatement OF DR.. McGlvnn
in direct opposition to the Official action
and wishes of Archbishop Corrigan was
terriblo blow to that probate and it has
had curious as well as a significant infiu-
ence upon his attitude toward the vatican.
IL is now charged that the very arch
bishop who posed as the champion OF the
pope's supremacy in ell things has been en-
gagged in a conspiracy TO stir up opposition
to foreign interference in the control OF the
church's interests in this country and es-
pecjally to counternct the effects OF Satoli's
mission and to prejudice his acts in the
sight of the Catholics of America. In SUD
port Of this charge it is asserted by the Ire
land party that letters have been sent from
priests in Archbishop CorriGan's household
to various lsymen supposed to have access
to the secular press, appealing for help in
an anti-Ireland crusade; that the publica-
ton OF the anti Ireland Italian pamphlet ia
now known 20 have been written by Father
Gerardo Psrranti, Archbishop COrrigen's
Italian secretary, and translated by Mgr.
Concil!o Of Jersey City; that the authorship
OF u similar pamphlet ostsnsibly by an &c
clesastic at Grenooie, France, has now
been traced very near to the arch
iepiscopal retidencs in New York;
that the extraordinary activity OF Miss ldes,
OF ultramontaine views, long resident at
Rome, and who formerly served tho late
Cardinal Simeoni as translator of English
and American papers, is also an agent OF
Archbishop CorrigaD, whom she has served
in various capacities, and some claim to be
abba to trace her Italian hand in several
'cables" which havo como from Rome with
surprising opportuneness for the Corrigan
side OF the controversy; and that thu sur
prising activity and unanimity of arony-
nous snti-Ireland lay correspondents to the
secular press in America, and especially
within tho sphere OF Archbishop Corrigan's
immediate influence, show concerted and
well organized movement TO overwhelm
Archbishop Ireland.
1t is also claimed by the followers OF
Archbishop Ireland that tho matter being