The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-27
NO RED HAT FOR IRELAND.
Archbishop of st. Paul VIII Not BE
Made a Cardinal.

ST. LOUIS Aug. 26.-The Globe-Demo-
Gratis Rome correspondent says: In re-
sponse to inquiry received from the Globe
Democrat this morning concerning the
truth of a report cabled from here to the
effect that Archbishop Ireland was about
to be created a cardinal in recognition of
his services toward the cause of peace,
am able after careful investigation to send
a most unqualified denial of the story. In
the first place, Leo XIII considers himself
bound by a solemn personal pledge made
some years ago to Cardinal Gibbons to
create no more American cardinals as long
as that prelate was living. In the second
place. no consistory has been announced
nor is likely to take place until next year
and cardinals, as everybody knows, are
cnly created at consstores. The condition
of Leo XIII. physically as we'll as mentally
renders it improbable in the extreme that
he will ever again preside at any consstory
Indeed, the hurried return here of all the
envoys accredited to the Holy See, as we'll
as the arrival of several foreign cardinals
here to participate in the manifest activity
and subdued excitement on the part of the
resident members of the Sacred College, in
dicates that the next meeting of the senate
of the church will take the form of a con-
clave, rather than of consistory. Finally,
a large majority of the Sacred College.
which has voice in the nomination of new
cardinals would be unlikely in the extreme
to respond in an affirmative sense to the
customary inquiry of the pontiff at the con-
sistory whether they saw any grounds why
Archbishop Ireland should not be created a
cardinal.
The vast majority of the Sacred College
consider that Archbishop Ireland's media
tion in the name of the Pope at Washing
ton last spring for the purpose of averting
war between Spain and the United States
was most injudicious and il-advised, espe-
cially in view of the fact that, owing to
the archbishop's failure to ascertain before
hand whether the offers of mediation would
prove acceptable to the American govern
ment, he exposed the papacy to rebuff
by the President of the United States with
out precedent in the present reign. This
has not only injured the prestige of the
Holy See throughout the world, but has
likewise led to a most unfortunate revival
of the old-time apprehension on the part
of the noncatholic element III the United
States lest the papacy should attempt to in
terfere in the political affairs of the United
States. 1t may be added, too, that the ma
| jority of the Sacred College is strongly op-
posed to this species of Neo-Catholicism
| which may be said to have been inaugur-
| ated by Father Hecker, of New York. and
with which the name of Archbishop Ireland
| is largely identified.
| Should Archbishop Ireland ever be ele-
waited to the Sacred College it would only
be in the event of the election of Cardinal
Seraphin Vannutelli as Pope, for this par
ticular prince of the church is on most in
innate terms with both Archbishop Keane
and Mgr Dennis OConnel who are con-
| sidered here as representing the interests
of Archbishop Ireland in the Eternal City.