The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-13

l america I0lN lnulNluuNA#SH kANth AnblA u
Yhenevera good reason forI Il is presented. Are
the Americans q nation The question seems
I nSRsPapsFs, o but T.t + |: { Gft could Epf 81 IN .t ARf iGssG
e kFchblshop ireland, twas said glibly; z
about tho American Church. America iis not a
patton nor is it a rage or apeople Ike France.
n made or a f SSsmsRIy; q F sts tesns Bou GI G iSss sSRsoSt5 ~
q common constitution and a common author
ity,i they did not build a nation; We have fellow,
What gave Weight to these words was the fact
that they we're printed In a Catholic
q Sf'rsBRS S oo PSssp' 5isno asa s% noS the G GssRe
olios OF America IL well known, The
sr .p:. %SswSsP 81 18BsEFaai sS%f' SiSSos Isti At SRRfHiSaaaIRREEo g.
expressed itself even more plainly. All these
ETeSt Rsn are s3r!nE US are n diThhG9onlnG us;
don't want an AMERICAN Church, but : R!omsp
period when Mgr. ireland md Mgr. koane, ar
oiy tRS t e RSmS g Gn SiTTl9FiiS 'S ar Va RS. SFIFsRE5a.i hSd
.:delessts q che Germsn Bishops and Catholics
I: EE&D ssii,$ VI; wa sp aS'' me ES! ss,pS SRa neat
The Germans IN Germany. always attentive
ProErosS q their fellow oountrymcn. even
fseS,''tss eRsT SSn'f bep anE'o Herr fears c 5eSst;
t a1s'i 8so6an or fss 81. Rsph.s q. s an s sSsssiS .,
ior ths projection oS IN q German P,s SmiGrsntt ar
each Of The f nsR3ionSIltle sAt Composing TIE body
81 American Catholics; he spoke Of national
Dishops, and md not only e Gsrme az Bhbishops; D be,
Sll.H own %s1t a%oT aa1 N Hta,y oba . o. Tf tbe q eh T, r rsSs %
one which he thought likely. among many 9TH
srs, to engage the care and attention OF tho
Fsn K'r Fasa'T 81 Tt sss shis catSoIlC Sit 6h a qsS'rf IN f ST,
United States. and he gave more or less au;
thentie figures, the number 2t the faithful
ITnonnhIdd onnave been 2o'ooo.ooo instead OF
Whether the Catholics in America should
t hIIe1 TO- say sE'1 BIT that Pi this %cutt fHnH9 up " q tho
fhJrshe soiIsb and aa %prsEmvo apTgFl ss11e t Frs Rsb:
States, the Holy Father did not believe, since
It was the hardest blow that could have been
struck at the Church in America, on the NOR
E FAY OF the sss say gh he p. the AZ P Len cgS U0 D}aasd r., e.
orGaniEation. y bad long been accused, as we
have said. Of not, being national itself and Of
ps its centre was at Rome. The petition OF the
German Catholics. therefore. added weight to
tnS aP RepubiIo an and spG s Eery SSiE% because St aus AH tRsy
were Catholics. the Germans proposed TO pre-
serve and perpetuate. as though in q con;
manners. but their language and their orig
inal nationality, They were even seen TO re;
to do fol-. the national work. II ever there was
one IN America; OF Increasing the NUM-
long and which It would be perhaps imprudent
to try to explain here, as for instance the school
stlnence. II they were far removed from the
Rrotestants on other points, i locked as though
X eADinR uDart from them even on nOint4 whaTA
ton than to come, to an understanding with
day as scrupulously as Methodists or Presby-
t~erians, for instance. or what necessity is there
beerl The Germans, however, grew obstinate
and even stubborn In their demands. They
derived aid from Europe: It was pointed out
mans. Italians. Slavs there is already a large
Polish COLONY In Chicagol would forml distinct
Americans or By absorbing the latter into the
new nationalities.' Really. there was no longer
any a, question ov OF Rome a,s In m thiS business ndn some some
posely. and while other confessions become as
simtiaied or Amsrisanized. an important frac-
tiGa Of the catholic EhnTch' on the contrary,
after p roli this POINT H.. Brunetisre goes
mSaT,s. His article ends as follows:
THE Catholic, ofcourse. may be glad at tho
R Be msy be- Of p rS5ddo of e! b IN f g eo Sn AZ al s sst !
could go beyond the am billion OF his hopes. To
emit. to the free thinker. that a doctrine so
81 often attSeked IN the past By means believed
II ffm ne 80 6I pe eNe 2 ia. E WSo on All 1 or s nss5,S al al fhe Ss same as
much interest as they showed .eagerness in
perverting Its nature and annihilating it: for
to give authority. and not reason alone but the
9 reat Idol of our time. science,,that such u doc
haps. have exercised a greater power, nor at
ta!ped more rapid progress, than, in the age OF
e n .s Inof end liz T. t Ia GbodpIn nsF|o where BE- Liberty a.
that Is the astounding thingI That this doc.
tnriss dr hsd 0 saiI et 'h ifs SRifpnsE VeT gh'S ShE rGT Gsn''
that means our country, and persecuted by
n thsn those as Ybj qonsh. and about no by l's sSe 'r rsTocsi
tlon Of the Edict Of Nantes. should have
IN the very weakness, to which Il was
rather the renewal Of It's strength. and that In
the very heart Of the Protestant land. in Amer
only BY thousands or by hupdreds, its adher-
t Sa.tr e .P %S}dS 1s. Ir.al AR 5od finally :, that j. !, I 5h 81
liberty Of the mind consisted merely n
successIully. only .tRq. Very very iibs sTss
and the 4shephsrds Of the peoples efiPs?' less Ss 4 bold
miraeul9usi At any rate, however much We
dream only Of WIDENING, our spheres Of in
fuence;, historians, who boast of being
merely the impartial and dislnterested wit
nesses Of events; philosophers, who should
that there is no effect without q
cause and that there can be nothing moro
In the effect. than there 10 In the cause,
must admit. now that there were
virtues in this doctrine of which we did
suspect. Its worst enemies have attacked
In " merely an empty phantom, tho creature
OF their own Imagination or Of their fanati-
secret Of is power. They hoye been mistaken
they have thought that their wit or their
or their exeEesis or their science
would triumph over. what the apostle called
his. inarmity, gum tnQfrmor tupo pOtens sum,
and II the Catholic Church OF America had
no other lesson To the world. this will
suffice to render her illustrious forever"
have quoted long extracts. for which you
viii see the reason, In tho United States.
Of old Europe. where tho Church
workings Of tho European brain, The Catho-
lie future OF France" once said Mgr. Ireland.
a matter .of the teenest Interest to
clearly that far away ip America We
to obtain. lessons and inspiration. the
non-Cathollcs to And out what js wrong with
you and to blame the Catholic Church for the
fnuitS Committad I'm Hrnnnah Wa will rAnauf