The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-09
POPE LEO TO C1RDINIL GIBBONS.

Notified of the Selection of Father Conaty
 to Preside Over the Catholic University.
 Baltimore, Dec. S.--Cardinal Gibbons is in receipt of an official letter from the pope informing his eminence that his holiness had appointed Rev. Thomas J. Conaty, D. D., of Worcester, Mass, rector of the Catholic university at Washington, D. C., to succeed Right Rev. Bishop Keane. Father Conaty ar rived here this morning and is now the cardinals guest at the arChiepiscopal residence, It has not been decided just when Father Conaty will assume his position, but the day will be arranged at a conference to be held at the car dinaPs residence tomorrow. It may be said that the newly appointed rector will be installed before the end of the year, probably between Christmas and the new year. The letter from the pope was as follows:
 ITO Our Beloved Son, James Cardinal
 Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore:
 Beloved Son-Health and apostolic
 
 We have received the letter you sent us from the meeting held in Washing ton to designate another president of the university, evincing as 1t does your eager desire to provide for the Welfare of the great seat of learning. Yielding to your request We have considered the names of three candidates whom We have proposed as worthy to discharge the office of rector. Of these We have deemed fit to choose and by our author ity We do hereby approve, the first on the list, namely Thomas J. Conaty, heretofore parish priest in Worcester, and president of the summer school.
 Both the learning and the zeal for the advancement of religion which characterize this distinguished man, whom you by your joint suffrages rec ommend, inspire us with the well grounded hope that his efforts will not be without abundant fruit in watching over the interests of the university as well as enhancing its lustre. How dear to our heart is this matter cannot but be well known to you, for you are aware how untiring was our solicitude in founding this institution, that we might deservedly reckon it among those works which, in the interest of religion and science we have out of our loving affection undertaken for the further ance of the glory of your country, and which we have with Gods help, been able to bring to a happy issue. Mean while as an earnest of heavenly grace and as an evidence of our spirit of good will we most lovingly in the Lord inn part to you our beloved son, to the new president of the university and to all its faculty the apostolic benediction.
 Given at Rome, at St. Peters, on the 23d day of November, 1896, the nine teenth year of our pontificate.
 (Signed) LEO, PIP, XIII"
 Together with the popes letter Car dinal Gibbons received from Cardinal Rampolla a letter giving expression to sentiments of great esteem and affec- ton which his holiness entertains for Bishop Kean and severely condemning as misrepresentations and calumnies the rumors spread by evil-minded per sons that the former rector had incur red the dspleasure of the holy see and that some of the professors of the uni versity were to be removed.
 The same letter moreover, expresses the desire of the holy father that Bishop Keane shall come to Rome, where he will be received and treated with honor Cardinal Rampolla's let ter was written before it was known Bishop Keane had decided to go to Rome.