Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-28
UNF OUNDED RUMORS
Not Likely That the Scope of Trinity Col
lege Will Be Limited.
Stories of fractional Differences in the
Catholic Church Denfed-MEr.
Schroeder Not a Factor.

ct would seem that we have an Ameri-
can pope, and that his name is Mgr.
Schroeder
The above remark was made by one of
the most prominent and influential Catho-
lies in the country. His attention had been
called to a publication which ALLEGED a
rumor to be current in Washington that
Mgr. Joseph Schroeder, the professor of
dogmatic theology at the Catholic Uni
versity of America, who is spending his
vacation abroad, was now in Rome. and
proposed to present to the propaganda at
the Vatican protest against the new Trim
ity College, which the sisters Of Notre
Dame have decided to build and to con-
duct under the general supervision of the
Catholic University officials.
For the past two or three years, con-
tinued the gentleman. "a persistent at
tempt has been made to lead the public to
believe that there were serious differences
in the Catholic Church over the policy it
was to pursue in the future in the United
States 1t was declared that there was a
powerful faction, known as the German
party, which was arrayed against another
powerful faction known as the American
party, and that between the two the Cath
Ollie Church of America was being pulled
hither and thither in dire danger OF com
plete revolution. All the publications have
glittered with the name of Mgr. Schroeder.
the rectorship of the Catholic University,
in pursuance of the pedagogical policy
always pursued by Rome, 1t was openly
declared that Apostolic Delegate Satollf s
hand had pulled the rector down, but that
Mgr Schroeder really conceived and car
ried out the whole conspiracy. There was
no truth whatever in any OF the sensational
statements published about the so-called
deposition of Bishop Eeane. This was
abundantly substantiated when, after a
brief week or two of retirement, the rector
whom Mgr Schroeder was alleged to have
SO ruthlessly ruined was called to posi-
ton in the councils of the pope more i'm
portant and influential than any ever be-
fore held by an American.
when Archbishop Keane, in pursuance
of his intention expressed when he left
this country for Rome, returned to his
home recently on a visit, undertaken pri-
marily in his capacity as private gentle
man, and, next, for the purpose of attend
ing meeting at the Catholic University in
October the same individuals who had In
spired the sensation about the rectorship
declared that Archbishop Keane's visit was
really for the purpose of working for the
succession to the late Archbishop Jannssens
of New Orleans, and it was announced in al
most luminous type that Mgr. Schroeder
was going to blight the archbishop's ambi-
ton in this direction. This absurd allega-
ton was as effectually punctured as the
former ones had been. 1t was shown that
Archbishop Keane, instead of being a can
didate for the archbishopric of New Or
leans, had expressed a particular desire
that his name should not be used in con
nection with it.
Now comes this last roorback about this
same Mgr. Schroeder going to Rome and
protesting against the establishment of
great college for the higher education of
women in connection with the great uni
versity which is already established for
the higher education of men. The persons
who persist in attributing such pertinacy
in notwithstanding to Mgr. Schroeder GER
taiBly cannot have very high regard for
him. MSr. Schroeder is not the representa-
tive of any faction in the Catholic Church,
for the reason that there are no factions
in it. Two or three disgruntled disap-
pointed men in a great organization, who
have not been allowed to have their own
way and run things to suit them, do not
comprise a faction.
ity,'' said the gentleman, in conclusion,
that the establishment Of the Trinity Col
lege by the sisters of the Notre Dame not
as a diocesan school, limited in it's scope
to the archdiocese of Baltimore but as Il
college almost as broad in its purposes for
the education of women as the Catholic
University is in its purposes for the educa-
ton Of men, was approved at Rome long
before the faintest hint of the intention to
establish it was made to the public When
the sisters announced their intention in a
printed letter, published some weeks ago.
it was accompanied by one of the strongest
bons that the greatest preIate in the
United States ever uttered The idea that
Mgr. Schroeder or any other individual of
similar calfber can WELD such potent in
fiuence as he is alleged to be exercising at
Rome is supremacy ridiculous"