The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-15
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Archbishop Ireland Pteased.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 14.-The news that the
Pope has instituted permanent apostolic
delegation for the United States. rs re-
ceiyed here to-day, is coupled with the IN
formation that Mgr. Satolli, named as the
first apostolic delegate. has all the we'll
church officials of the same rank and title.
Archbishop Ireland this afternoon said:
Il am heartily glad that this action has
delegation under the church law are broad
and well defined. We have now an apos-
tollc delegate. Heretofore Mgr. Satollrs
title hos been ablegate, which denotes q
position rather temporary and underlined.
IL has been the intention of the Pope
for some time to take this sctlon.
but the opposition shown to Mgr
Satolli In certain quarters has
FASTENED the decision. The appointment
is complete answer to those opposed to
Mgr. SatollIs authority. The establish
ment of a delegation here will have q most
beneicent result on the church In America.
1t will maintain peace and harmony, and
facilitate the settlement of controversies
among Catholics. which heretofore had to
be referred to Rome. Itpractically organizes
In perfect form the Catholic Church In
America. instituting, as 1t were, far more
important church affairs, home rule. We
will have at home branch of the supreme
ecclesiastical court. further result will
be that the immediate working and
thoughts of the Holy Sec will be brought
moro prominently before the American peO-
pie. who. from observation, will SEQ that
the Catholic Church, in Its highest au-
thority. is In harmony with the principles
of our democracy and all that is good, use
full and elevating In modern progress.
Leo XIII is q man OF firm character; op-
position strengthens his resolve: All that
has occurred since Mgr. SatollTs ARRIVAL
demonstrates the more plainly the need of q
representative of the Pope. clothed with
well defined and extensive powers For
Catholics. Rome Is the supreme tribunal;
but Rome Is rather far away. A hand
near by is needed that will at any moment
reach out and bid the sea be placid. If
some men had been seeking in most effect
ual ways to make evident to all eyes the
necessity of q delegate in America. they
could not have adopted In proof OF their
thesis more effective arguments than the
methods they have been In fact pursuing.
God be thanked for all that has been done.
The Catholic Church IN America is now
thoroughly organized, and has put on the
mantlings OF perfect stature. She has In
her territory a supreme court, O branch OF
the appellate court of Rome, deriving from
this latter it's life, but capable In itself of
immediate action. This Is homo rule for
American Catholics SO far as Catholics
away from Rome can have home rule. In
aOO1blOn TO our own energies anu IOSDlT8-
tions we shall have In all our undertakings
the direction and impetus so directly, as
never before, of the sovereign head of the
church. Catholics will have q more prac-
ticsl realization OF what church
unity and papal supremacy mean.
Remote authority dwindles at times
into a speculative theory. or an idle beau
ideal; present authority is n living test. 1t
tests ones obedience. while at the same
time adding new power for we'll doing So
far as the country at large is concerned.
the American people Will welcome the
recognition that a religious element of the
land. so important as the Catholic, has this
new glory added to It's record, this new
strength infused into its life. Moreover. q
closer acquaintance of the workings of the
papacy will be interesting and salutary. 1t
will q issi pate many an Old-tlme pref udlce.
The papacy will appear to all of
Us in its true light. harmonlZinR
magniticently with the associations
of modern democracy and accelerating the
march of all that Is useful, good and ele-
waiting In modern progress. The clouds of
old fogylsm. said to hang around the
thr 11e of Peter. exist only In the befOgged
river of religious prejudice or the darkened
recesses of narrow and blindfolded minds.
They exist not in the Vatican. The most
far-seeing liberal mind in the world to-day
is that of Leo: the most gentle and gener-
Gus heart is his. Neither Catholics nor
Protestants of America know him sutii-
cently. 1t is the duty of all to study him;
1t is the particular duty OF Catholics to
draw nearer to him and follow more Loyalty
his supreme guidance"