Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-06-21
POPE ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
THE LATTER NOT ENTIRELY
To HE CONDEMNED.
Bua The Ca'hoItc schools Are to
he NIuItipiied In Number And


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BALTIMORE, Md, June 81 C ardinaI
Gibbons has given to the United Ptess a
copy of AN official translation of the much
discussed encyclical letter from Pope Leo
on the Schools question. 1t shows the
Popc'S love for America, eulogizes Mon
signor Satolli and gives the twofold pur-
pose of his mission. His position on the
school question, unexplained to arch
bishops in New York, and misunderstood
by others, is endorsed by the pope who
declares i TO he in harmony with the ac-
ton of the Baltimore council which re-
mains i'll its integrity. After referring to
the action OF Satolli at the meeting ofarch-
bishops in New York when he laid before
the meeting certain propositions on the
school question. the Pope says:
But these propositions of our dele
gate having been inopportunely mad,
public minds were at once excited and
controversies started atresh which
| through false interpretations and
| through malignant imputationS scat
| tered abroad i'll newspapers, grew more
| widespread and more serious. Then
| certain prciates of your country whct her
|
| upon some OF these propositions, or fear
ing harm to souls which it seemed to
| them might thence result, conhded to us
| the reason of their anxiety, and we,
| knO wing that the salvation of souls is
| the supreme law to be ever asSiduously
| born in mind by us, and wishing more
| over to give YOU another proof OF our
| solicitious affection. requested that each
| OF YOU should, III private letter, fully
| open his mind to us the subject,
which was diligently complied with by
each one of you. From all of these
| letters it became manifest to that
some of you found i'll the propositions
| no reason tor apprehension, while to
| others 1t seemed that the propositions
partially abrogated the disciplinary
| law concerning schools enacted by the
council OF Baltimore, and they feared
| that diversity OF interpretations put
upon them would cngender discussions
| which would prove detrimental to Cath
| olic schools.
| After carefully weighing the matter,
| we are convinced that such interpreta-
| tions are totally alien from the meaning
| OF our delegates, as they are tar rom the
mind of this apostolic see. Then the
principal Propositions offered by him
| were dra wn from the DEGREES of the third
| plcnary council of Baltimore, and they
| especially declare that Catholic schools
| are to be most sedulously promoted; and
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to decide according to circumstances,
| w hen it is lawful and when unla wtul to
| attend he public schools. Now If the
| vEoi DIS OF .iAy speaker are So to be taken
| that the latter part OF his discourse shall
| be understood to agree, and not to disa-
| gree, with what he had said before, it is
| surely bot Ii unbecomng and unjust SO to
| explain his later uttcrance to
| make them disagree with the preceding
| one, and this is more true since the mean-
| ing of the writer was not at all lett
| obscure. He added moreover. that these
| dccrccs, in as far as they contain gen
| Cr3i rule of action, faithfully to be
| obScr we'd, and that, although the public
| schools are not to be entirely condemned
| since cases may occur III which it Is
| Ia wtul to attend them, still every en-
deavor should be made to multiply
Catholic schools and bring them to per,
feet equipment. But in order that there
| NAV remain no further room for doubt
| we again declare that the decrces which
the Baltimore council have enacted con
ccrning the parochial schools and what
ever else has been prescribed by Roman
pontiffs, whether directly or through tn,
sacred congregations concerning the same
| matter, are to be steadtastly Observed