St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-12
NOT LIKED IN ROME.
The Latest Attempts OF the Corri-
gan Party Cause Excite
ment in Rome.
Leo Did Not Act in Ignorance
When He Confirmed SatoliIs
Power.

New YORK, Feb. 1.-THE Rome cor
respondent of the Herald cables the fol-
lowing: 1.-The latest attempts of the
Corrigan party to discredit Cardinal
Gibbons and diminish the prestige Of
Mgr. Satolli have caused considerable
excitement. Your correspondent is in
position to give most unqualified
and authoritative denial to the re-
port that the appointment OF the
apostolic delegate was directly
or remotely brought about by
the suppression or delaying of informa-
ton with regard to the opinion Of the
American archbiShOps concerning the
establishment of permanent delega-
ton. When the question was submitted
to the recent conference eleven arch
bishops pronounced against perma-
nent delegation. Archbishop Ire
land alone voted in its ia
vor, while Cardinal Gibbons, with
his usual prudence. held aloof.
The decision OF the conference was in
stantly communicated to Mgr. Satolll.
A few hours later he wrote a letter
officially informing the Vatican OF the
vote. This letter was received long be-
fore Mgr. O'Connell's return. The pope
therefore did not act in ignorance when
he confirmed Mgr. Satdlli'S power. The
intrigueS of Archbishop Corrigan's adj
herents, their quibblingS and misState-
mentS have, it is feared. offended the
pope;
by his holiness. On reading Of his al
legged rebuff Mgr. OConnell drove to
the Vatican and told the pope of the
tales. Pope Leo expressed Indignation
and strongly denounced the reports as
malicious. Archbishop Corrigan's Ro-
man friends are now trying to harm
DR.. McGIynn by hawking about his
pretended irreverence at the recent re-
cepti0n given by DR.. Funk. of New
York. In this connection it might be
well 10 answer Father ConnOlly'S disin-
genuous assertion that Archbishop Cor
rgan sent no protest about the manner
Of McGlynn'S reinstatement to the
Propaganda. In point of fact the pro-
test was addressed to Cardinal Ledo-
chowski, who is project of the Propa-
ganda, with permission to transmit it to
! the Vatican. The fine distinction may
| appear important to Archbishop Corri-
gan, but it will hardly strike the public
in that light"
A local paper says: mgr. Satolli,
the apostolic delegate, as well as order
| ing Bishop Wigger, of the Newark, N.
j., diocese to reopen ST. Thomas
church in Bayonne, which the bishop
closed, compelling the Notwithstanding
Pensioners to attend st. Mary'S Ger
man church, has commanded him to alb
rogate law which he made his priests
strictly enforce. The apostolic dele
gate has in his desk at the Catholic
university in Washington paper bear
ing the bishops signature agreeing to
do what was ordered. Ii the bishop
fails to enforce the delegates order il is
probable that he will he summoned to
Washington again to make an eXplana-
ton. Bishop Wigger some years ago
instructed his priests to refuse the sac.
ranent to parents who sent their chill
dren to the public schools. This meant
the accommodation. If person died
without the sacraments, because of this
rule, he could not be buried in conSe-
Grated ground. Every priest was COM
PEELED to enforce the bishops order. and
there was considerable discomfort among
the Catholics of the Newark diocese.
Parents were asked when they went to
confession if their children attended a
parOchial school. If the answer was in
the negative the priest refused to give
aDSoiution."