The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-29

The pope declares that he has left nothing undone, so far as circum-
 stances permitted, to preserve and
 more solidly establish in the United
 States the Catholic religion. With
 this intent, he has turned his attention
 to two splendid special objects, the
 advancement of learning and the per
 fecting of methods in the management
 of church affairs.
 He refers to the establishment of the Catholic university at Washington and says that an education cannot be
 deemed complete which takes no notice | of modern sciences. In the keen com
 petition of talents and the passion for
 knowledge, Catholics ought to be lead
 CTS It is necessary, therefore, that
 they should cultivate every refinement
 of learning and zealously train their
 minds to the discovery of truth and the l investigation, so far as it is possible,
 of the entire domain of nature. The
 pope recalls the fact that in con-
 sistory he had expressed the wish that
 it should be regarded as the fixed law | Of the university to unite erudition and | learning with soundness of faith and l to imbue it's students, not less with religion than with scientific culture. 1 He touches upon the good work which | is being one by the university, be-
 speaks for it the liberality of American citizens and comments to American generosity also the American Catholic | college at Rome He refers to the | third plenary council at Baltimore and says that the event has proven that it's | decrees were salutary and timely in the extreme.
 He says: But when the council of Baltimore had concluded its labors the duty still remained of putting a proper
 and becoming crown upon the work. This. we perceived, could scarcely be done in a more fitting manner than
 through the due establishment by the apostolic see of an American legation. By this action we have wished, first of all, to certify that in our judgment and affection America occupies the same place and rights, as other states, and they are ever so mighty and import
 ant In addition to this we had in mind to draw more closely the bonds of duty
 and friendship which connect you and
 so many thousands of Catholics with
 the apostolic see. In fact the mass of
 the Catholics understand how salutary
 our action was destined to be- they
 saw, moreover, that it accorded with
 the usage and policy of the apostolic
 see but how base1ess would
 be the suspicion, should 1t anywhere
 exist that the powers conferred on the
 legate are an obstacle to the authority
 of the bishops. Sacred to'us (more than
 10 Yto af
 whom the Holy Ghost has placed as
 bishops to rule the church of God" That these rights should remain intact in every nation in every part of the globe we both desire and ought to de- sire, the more so since the dignity of the individual bishops is by nature so inter- woven with the dignity of the Roman Pontiff, that any measure which benefits the one necessarily protects the other. Therefore, since 1t is the office and func- tion of the apostolic legate withwhatso- ever powers he may be vested to exc cute the mandates and interpret the will of the pontiff who sends him far from his being any detriment to the or dinary power of the bishops he will rather bring an accession of stability and strength.
 His authority will not possess no slight weight for preserving in the multitude submissive spirit In the clergy discipline and due reverence for the bishops, and in the bishops mutual charity and an intimate union of souls and since this union, so salutary and desirable consists mainly in harmony of thought and action he will no doubt bring 1t to pass that each one of you shall persevere in the diligent admin istration of his diocesan affairs; that one shall not impede another in mat ters of government that one shall not pry into the counsels and conduct of another; finally, that with disagree ments eradicated and mutual esteem maintained and may work together with combined energies to promote the glory of the American church and the general welfare. He declares that the of the bishops will edify Catho lies and persuade those outside of the church that the divine apostalate has descended by inheritance to the ranks | of the Catholic episcopate. The church, | he remarks, should keep pace with the great republic in the march of inn | and aid in it's growth. She | will attain these objects more sue | in proportion to the degree | in which the future finds her consti- | tuition perfected. The meaning of the | legation and its ultimate aim are to | bring it about that the constitution | of the church shall be strengthened, | her discipline better fortified. The | pope desires that this truth should | sink day by day more deeply into the minds of Catholics; namely, that they can in no better way safeguard their individual interests and the common good than by yielding a hearty sub. mission and obedience to the church. The pope then says;
 "To one matter of the first importance md fraught with the greatest blessings t is a pleasure at this place to refer 1n account of the holy firmness in and practice, respecting it, which, as a rule, rightly prevails amongst you. We mean the Christian logma of the unity and the indissolu- oility of marriage; which supplies the irmest bond of safety, not merely to he family, but to society at large. Diff icult it is to imagine a more deadly pest to the community that the wish o declare dissoluble a bond which by