The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-20
CARDINAL GIBBONS AT ROME.
He Has Long and Delightful Audi
ence With the Pope.

From the Baltimore Sun.
Rome, June SIT has been said of GER
tain ecclesiastics in every age that it may
be declared of them with truth that Ito
write their lives adequately would be to
write the ecclesiastical history OF the times
in which they lived" And, while this is
true in a supreme and universal sense OF
Leo Kill, it is also true, though in more
limited manner of Cardinal Gibbons. The
history of the Roman Catholics Church in
the United States during the present gen
GRAFTON, its progress and the position Of
respect and consideration awarded to IL
by the best minds in other religions. arc
largely owing to the tact and gentleness
and to the personal influence of Cardinal
Gibbons. One might say to him with fun
fitness, what Longfellow said to a brother
poet:
"Oh, thou whose daily life anticipates
The life to come, and in whose thought
and word f-
The spiritual world pyepohderqtts.
Since the arrival of Cardinal Gibbons at
Rome the American College, in the Via
dell Umelta, where he resides, is constant
~ visited by callers on the cardinal. The
large parlor, so well known TO the great
majority of American visitors to Rome
for almost all of them find their way to IL
at some time or another-is now occupied
with groups of ccclesiastics of many ma
tions and members of the laity-Italians.
French, English and Americans. The very
walls are eloquent of the dual character
of the place-an American colony of stu
dents in Rome. Here are splendid por-
traits of the cardinal archbishop of Bal
timore next to close likeness of Car
dinal Ledochowsky, project of the propa-
ganda. The portrait of Bishop Waiter
son of Columbus, o., is close to that of
Bishop Burke Of St. Joseph, Mo..-a former
student of the institution kindly remem-
bered and honored. The faithful present.
ment of the late Cardinal McClosky is
placed near a very fine bust of the late
Pope Plus TX. A good portrait of Car
dinal Simeoni, once project of the propa-
ganda, another of Archbishop Reardon of
San Francisco, Cal, and magnificent
copies of two large paintings by the great
Spanish master, Murillo, representing re-
spectively the Immaculate Conception
and a Holy Family, are also conspicuous
here.
The cardinal, on his arrival, immediate
" gave audience to the present writer.
He began his conversation by referring
to his audience with the pope on Monday,
June g. Eight years have passed since
the cardinal was last in Rome-a lengthy
period in the life even of the youngest,
but burdened with many cares and soil II
tudes in the life of of one occupying such
a position as that of Leo KILL which
tend to deepen the traces of the years.
Yet the cardinal considers that Leo XIII.
looks to be in better health and more ac-
tive than he was when he last saw him
prior TO his departure from Rome. 1t is
needless TO say that the pope expressed
his very great satisfaction at seeing tho
cardinal, and the latter was specially graf
~ Ii, oh aif.trc ra1
come given him. 1t was long and very
delightful audience, as the cardinal IA
mlliarly expressed it.
The pontiff spoke in warm terms of the
Catholic University at Washington, re-
garding it as one of the greatest necess:-
ties of the day. He feels much satisfac-
ton at the progress it has already made
and augurs for 1t a great and beneficial
future, and considers il an effective means
by which the higher learning and science
may be spread abroad.
He manifested to the cardinal the great
interest he feels in the republic Of the
United States, the future grand destinies
of which no man can predict. He has
the highest opinion of the upright and just
intentions of its people, and that withou.
regard to the religious faith that they
may profess. He admitted the presence
and action and influence of a strong re-
Igious and moral basis on conduct as
the United States. Religion and moral
ity, he said, were respected there, and it
would be we'll with the nation whose peo-
pie had these as the foundation of their
lives.
The cardinal confirmed this idea by re-
lating to Leo XIII. that the President Of
the United States never issued an I'm
portant proclamation to the people with
out invoking the blessing of God ~ the
nation which he adressed. This showed
how the nation, as a whole, whatsoever
religious differences may exist between
many of it's people, is one In acknowledge
ing the existence and the authority OF
God. Sunday, continued the cardinal, IL
observed much better and with more de-
votion in the United States than even in
Italy, And. he added. candidates for pub
lie Offices in the United States would rot
at all succeed in obtaining the suffra ges
Of the people II they proclaimed, as they
do here, or even If 1t were known that
such candidates were atheists
Then the cardinal referred to the num-
Der and absorbing nature of his occupy
tions here, remarking that in coming 10
Rome 1t was not TO enjoy a vacation Of
rest that he came. Nevertheless, his
ceaseless activity and great capacity tor