Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-04
The nIission of Satolli.

A dispatch from Cincinnati says Arch
bishop Elder OH Friday gave out an au'
thoritative statement regarding Mgr
Satolli's visit to this country.
"Mgr. Sutolli promised me last No
vember to pay me VISIT" said TIE
Archbishop, land I suggested to him
that he come at the time of the dedica-
ton of the Church of the Sacred Heart
1t was in accordance with that promise
and TO dedicate the church that he
came. His visit to Cincinnati has no
other significance.
Some persons had an idea that the
delegate was 10 be Nuncio from the
Holy Father 10 the L. :. government.
His mission is only for the church and
its children. When he first came he
was commissioned to represent Pope
Leo NH. at the opening OF the Colum-
bian celebration last October. In the
month of January he was appointed
Apostolic Delegate for all the atluirs OF
the church in this country.
"a Cardinal was not selected, be,
cause Cardinal is never chosen for an
office like this. The Cardinals are the
Pope's counselors, the princes of his
court, and commonly reside in Rome.
Occasionally Cardinal may be sent on
some extraordinary business, but this
is very rare. Some OF the Car
dinals are permanent residents of
other countries, like our own Cardinal
Gibbons. These appointments are ex-
ceptional and they are commonly in
tended as compliment to the country
or individual. Mgr. Satolli is here
simply to facilitate matters of church
interest.
In regard TO the schools, there has
been considerable misunderstanding
regarding the rules brought from the
pontilf by Mgr. Satoll. Thus some
papers represented that those rules
allowing the sending Of children
to public schools provided that Cathol
iciSm was taught them afterward. This
would not have been in accordance
with the DEGREES of Baltimore, which
have made it obligatory on every Cath.
olic parish to support a parochial
school, if it were able, and for every
Catholic to send his children to such a
school unless the bishop allowed him
10 send them elsewhere. But the rules
themselves declared that the Baltimore
DEGREES should be observed, and the
Sovereign PontiiI has pronounced that
they must not be interpreted in any
sense contrary to those DEGREES or 10
other instruction given by - "
| See.
We think that the public schoo.
are good enough as far as they so, but
that they leave out the most important
part of education. We wish TO have
The Catholic children educated to de-
velop the image of God which is in the
soul of every man, as we'll as instruct
ed in the ordinary public school sub
jects-reading, writing, etc.
These instructions do not Of them
selves make good citizens. All the
great swindlers and embezzlers are
we'll up in these branches of finstruc-
tions, but they are not good citizens.
OF course, no schools, public or paro-
chial, can make man virtuous unless
he chooses to be SO. But parochial
schools give him the most powerful
help, teaching the child the truths
which God has given Us for the pur-
pose and training him to use the means
of prayer, the sacrament, etc. We re-
gard religion not merely as pabulum
for Sunday and holy days, but union
with God every day and all through
the day. We do not believe that to be
religious one must pray all the time,
but that our acts should be done for
the sake of God.