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highest terms OF praise Of the non-sec-
tartan public school system. Every
Catholic ax:payer, he said, willingly
supported and assisted to maintain the
public schools, and aside from this they
had their own parochial schools where
their children could receive spiritual,
as we'll as q business or professional edu-
cation. These parochial schools are in
jur1ng no one. They cost nobody any
thing excepting their patrons. They
must have merits and their existence
must be benefit or they would not be
so extensively patronized by Protestants.
He referred his audience to the great
centers of art, science and music OF Italy,
France and Germany, cities which had
become noted the world over, and were
Catholic cities, referring to the fact that
the Catholic Church was the patron of
the arts, had nourished and fostered
them, and that the worlds greatest ar
lists, musicians and scientists we're edu-
Gated by the Church, disproving that the
Catholic Church was narrow, illiberal, or
unpatriotic. He stated that he himself
| received his early education in the pub
lie schools, being subjected to severe
punishment because he refused to read
the Protestant bible, sing Protestant
hymns and Say Protestant prayers. This
was persecution by the Professionals, but
the public school system has been greatly
improved since. He would be among
the first to oppose any plan whereby the
Catholic parochial schools would take
the place of the public schools, because,
he said, the Catholics were now unable
to accommodate moro than half of the
scholars who desired education in them.
The speaker said, without any reserve,
with perfect dandor, with abiding faith
in the instincts of justice in the Ameri-
can heart, pronounce the American pub
lie school system the very best that
could possibly be devised" ..
Father Cleary read clipping from
Mondays Eagle, in which he was chal-
to meet Prof. Sims in joint debate on the
subject of religion on Thursday evening.
The speaker said that Prof. Sims no
doubt knew that the Opera House,which
was the only hall large enough to hold
the people who would turn out to such 9
meeting. was engaged for that evening
or he would not have issued the chal-
lenge. He then read each article of the
challenge, and supported his denials by
|irrefutable argument. During his an
swer to the articles of the challenge, he
was interrupted by Rev. Crosby, OF
Menominee, who desired to know whether
or not question was in order. Being
answered in the affirmative he asked
concerning the speakers relation to the
bishop, referring to the denial that
Father Cleary made as to his ever taking
an oath of allegiance to the Pope. Father
Oleary then invited MIR. Crosby on the
stage to discuss with him, and while Mr..
Crosby was in the act of passing to the
stage he declared that he was from the
south--a rebel, and that he was sorry
that the cause was lost!
Rev. Crosby desired Father Cleary to
explain the doctrine of the Pope's infalli-
bility, which he did in effect as follows:
He compared the matter to our courts.
A case may commence in the circuit
court, may be appealed to the supreme
court of the state, from the state court
to the United States court and from the
United States court to the supreme court
of the United States. The latter is
termed ''infallible" as court, because it
is the highest appellate power. Like
wise, the Pope, whose prerogatives were
to interpret religious doctrines of the
Catholic Church, TO expound the Bible,
and to decide affairs relating to the bust.
ness of the Church. The people came to
the priests, the priests appealed to the
bishops, the latter to the archbishops,
the archbishops to the cardinal, the car
dinal to the Pope, who is the highest ap-
pellate power within the Church, and is
therefore infallible in interpreting it's
doctrines, bible and business affairs.
This power exists in every ecclesiasti-
cal organization in exactly the same rela-
tions as in the Catholic Church. The
Methodists have their elders, and con.
terences, the Presbyterian church has it's
session presbytery, and successive power
of church government; all exercising the
prerogatives as the ecclesiastical success
sion in the Catholic Church.
But the A. P. A. has construed this in
fallibility of the Pope as the highest ap-
pelate p ,wer of the Church to mean that
he was in sort of partnership in which
deity was silent member. The Pope
comes from tie ranks Of the people, liable
to error and sin, but when matter. OF
Church doctrine is in question, as an ex-
pert, in church creed, he hears the argu-
ments of his council, comprising the car
dinals and bishops, and doctors OF the
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