The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-10

POPE TO CARDINAL
His Holiness BestoWs the
Apostolic Benediction
Upon All Connected
With the Univer-
Sity.
YOUNG LADIES TAKE THE VEIL
Reception of NoYices at the Feast
of st. Dominic-General
Parish News.
YOUNG LADIES TAKE THE VEIL

The full text of the Pope's letter of
June 90 to Cardinal Gibbons, published
on July II, in the "Osservatore Roma
no. of Rome. is as follows
''To our beloved son, James Cardinal
Gibbons. of the title of st. Mary's be-
yond the Tiber. Archbishop of Balti-
more. Leo Kill. Pope.
Beloved son, health and apostolic
benediction: Another opportunity for
laanifesting our affection and our watch
full care toward your Catholic Univer-
sity is afforded US by the pleasing news
concerning it which we have received
from you. Seeing that we have our
selves by apostolic authority established
it and invested it with the rights and
privileges by law provided, we greatly
rejoice not only that it has approved
itself to US by the fruitfulness of its
good results during the past six years,
but also that it is on the point of IN
dertaking still wider work. That we
hoped for this development of its growth
We declared in the letter recently ad-
dressed by us to yourself and the other
Bishops of the United States. And now
we learn that through you ready re-
Spouse and through the 1iberality of the
faithful, new departments of learning
are to be inaugurated in the University
next October. which Will offer fresh ad-
vantages to ecclesiastical students, and
shall at the same time provide the laity
with superior facilities for higher educa-
ton. You nave wisely determined that
these studies should be comprised under
a faculty of philosophy, but a philosophy
equipped and adorned with those va
rious auxiliary studies which. when fully
ona Ioor1oJJu 171rSrta3 ON the one hand
lend light for the discovery of truth and
add glory to truth discovered, and, on
the other hand, enhance the truth in
public esteem and thus render it more
practically fruitful. OF such results we
find good promise in the names of the
distinguished professors already chosen,
especially because of their resolve faith
fully to follow, as we have prescribed,
that surest method of philosophic study
pointed out by ST. Thomas AQulnaS-
EXAMPLE OF SURPRISING UTfLITY.
but receive the approval and the best
wishes of this apostolic see, whose GUS
tom it has ever been to promise and in
every way to foster all learned studies.
We wish, therefore. that the University
may. through this new development,
more and more advance, wax strong and
both of religion and of the republic.
To it let the Catholic colleges be earnest
10 Senu up Inelr most talented ana
promising Students: in it let the bonds
of holy unity among Catholics be knit
close and strong, an example of sur
prising utility, and from it, as from a
fountain open to all, may a great power
of both learning and practical influence
pour far and wild for the best welfare of
all. 4sei
meanwhile, upon yourself, beloved son,
upon all the Archbishops and Bishops,
protectors of the University, upon those
through whose generous munficence it
is supported and developed, upon the
professors and students of the new de-
partments, and upon all connected with
The institution. we most lovingly bestow
the apostolic benediction.
Civ at st. Peters, In Rome, the
10Th day of June, 1895, in the eighteenth
year of our pontifieate.
LEO XIII, Pope"