The Indianapolis journal., 1896-11-14
"APOsTLE OF HEREsY.v
What Cardinal SatOli Calls Arch
bishop Ireland. of st. Paul


NEW YORK. Nov. 13.-The Morning jour
nafs Rome correspondent says: Cardinal
Satolli has just presented to the Pope his
report on the religious questions in the
United States. Although this document is
destined not to be published, it is neverthe-
less perfectly well known what it contains
and 1 am thus in position to give you
interesting information with respect to it.
Cardinal Satolli makes a vertiable requisi-
ton against Bishop Keane and the Catholic
University Of the United States at Wash
ington. He accuses Bishop Keane of hav-
ing. in several public speeches, uttered
opinions which bordered on heresy, and
says that, in accord with Archbishop Ire
land, he endeavored to acclimatize a neo-
Catholicism (new Catholicism) on American
soil. Cardinal Satolli declares that the uni
versity at Washington had become the
heart of these new ideas, where the most
bold and risky theories were put forward.
Fortunately, he says, the removal Of Bishop
Keane has cut short the evil at its root,
but the Bishop left behind dangerous dis
ciples in the persons of numerous profess
sors of this university. and the Cardinal
advises the Pope to deprive them, in their
turn, of their offices.
But the Cardinal shows himself much
bishop Ireland. He declares that this pre-
late is the creator of neo-Catholicism in the
United States, and he formally accuses him
or being the apostle of hereSy." This re-
port produced a very marked impression
at the Vatican, where every one foresees
that the Pope will adopt the greater por-
1t seems certain. deprive the keanism
professors of their offices, and will call
Archbishop Ireland to Rome to there offer
an explanation. This blow which has just
been struck at Bishop Keane and Arch
bishop Ireland has, moreover a more gen.
eral effect. 1t is a complete and sudden
AT first Leo XIII showed marked pref
erence for Archbishop Ireland. which did
not fail to seem to many to be extraor-
dinary, in view Of the boldness of the atti-
tude and doctrine of the Archbishop of St.
Paul The latter ostensibly enjoyed the
favor of the Vatican, and Rome protected
him against the attacks and suspicious of
which he was the object. When he came
here a few years ago he was accorded g.
triumphal reception. To-day the reaction is
ly diavows the idea of Archbishop Ireland
and his group. The neo-Catholcism which
these people are attempting to plant in the
The Vatican has repudiated it. while it's
rival and antagOnistic group, led by Mgr.
Corrigan. has reconquered the favor Of the
1t is needless to call attention to how
significant and interesting is this new evo-
luton of Leo the Thirteenth from the point
of view of the general destinies of con-
temporary Catholicism. II is the old Roman
conservatism which has finished by regain
ing the upper hand. Moreover, it is not
only in the United States, but also in other
countries and other fields, that the policy
of Leo manifests tendency to sudden
change. In France there is already a stop,
II not an actual backward movement.
In another field, that of the social ques-
ton. the Vatican is equally undergoing a
change of front. The Holy See, which
formerly seemed to cover with its protec-
ton the party of democratic Christians. is
to-day frightened with their excess and dis
avows them. particularly in Belgium. The
diplomacy of Leo XIII, led for a moment
astray by imprudent advisers is finding
again It's habitual qualities of tact circum-
specton and sagacity. Leo takes again in
his own hands the reins which he was
wrong to abandon to badly advised and un-
Skillful instruments.