The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-06-04
LEO RELIEVES HIM
ARCHBISHOP KENRICK DEP0SED
FROM HIS HIGH OFFICE

In View Of his Unsoundness OF Mind andC on
sequent Inability to Manage the Large
Property Interests OF the Archepisco-
pate of st. Louis, the Aged Prelate is
Deposed by the Propaganda and the
Most Reverend John j. Kahn is APP
pointed Archbishop in His Stead
sketch of the Ex-Archbishop's Career.
ST. Louis, June 3.-Archbishop Ken
drick of st. Louis has been deposed by
the pope and Most Rev. john J. Kain
has been appointed in his stead.
The effect of the decision is 20 effect
ually retire Kendrick from all the right
titles and privileges pertaining to the
archbishop of st. Louis. The retire
1nent Of Kendrick is the result of
petition to the propaganda, setting
forth his mental incapacity and the dan
gerous condition of business affairs
in his diocese. Hendricks mental in
trinity displayed itself in the form OF
violent opposition to his co-adjutator,
whom he regards as an interloper.
The propa ganda was not long in act
ing. But Archbishop Kain, fearful lest
the hot weather should carry off the
old archbishop before Rome acted and
leave the affairs of the diocese in pre-
carious condition. fled the local legal
proceedings to remove the archbishop
from the truseeship of church property.
These proceedings will now in all pro-
liability lapse, as there is no further
necessity for pushing them. The pro-
Ceedings had hardly been flied when
Arch bishop Kain received word from
Rome that his superior had been de-
posed and he was the new archbishop
of st. Louis.
Following the official announcement
the next step will be the comforting of
the pallium. Archbishop kain's pal
lum will not arrive before another
month, perhaps later. 1t may not be
conferred upon him until after Arch
bishop Kenrick's death If that event
occurs shortly. But it may have to be
done during the life of the archbishop,
for unless it has been placed upon the
shoulders of the new incumbent he cam
not perfom the sacred duties pertaining
to his exalted Office.
Archbishop Hendricks future is not
determined upon. In all probability
he will be removed from the arch
bishopal residence presented to him at
the time of his golden jubilee. If he
ever comprehendS that Rome has re-
lieved him of his authority, he will
gladly retire to any of the asylums con-
Quoted by the sisterhoods of his church.
He has often expressed the desire to
get away from the cares of his office
end spend the remainder of his life in
seclusion. But that was before his in
tellect began to wayer.
Archbishop Kendrick was born in
Dublin, Ireland. If he lives until the
18th of August he Will enter on his Goth
year He studied at Maynooth college,
ireland. He was ordained March s,
1892. He came to America a year later
end went to Philadelphia, where his
brother, Francis Patrick kenrick, was
coadjutor bishop. In 1910 he went to
Rome. intending to apply for admfs-
sion to the society of Jesuits. but the
Black Pope, as the Jesuit superior is
called, dissuaded him. Here he met
Bishop Rosali. of st. Louis, who was
in search of a coadjutor and he took
the young ecclesiastic, whom he knew
by reputation.
On Nov IS, 1S41 he was consecrated