The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-30
POWER OF FHE PAPAL
Delegate IS WANING
Why the Office Has Lost Orig.
inal Significance.
Its Small Concern With Church
Matters During the War.
Hopes Excited by Cardinal SntOllfs
Coming and the DisappOint-
ment He Left Behind Him.


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OF public attention always given to the al
| fairs of the Roman Catholic Church and
now esnectallv in view Of the interests of
| ,,o o,,,,,, =, ..or, oeoo,od ,v tho
ehe VI III hi"''''' W
Spanish war, 1t is somewhat remarkable
that there should have been SO little men,
| ton of the apostolic delegate to the UniteI
States in III. I,s, ro,r ar co s,o-c.,v ov.r
mas MS iiaine peeh iheh'ioneu III cohiec-
ton with the important negotiation af-
fecting the vast interests of his church in
| Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines, and
| at the present time he seems to have
| dropped so completely out OF sight that
| people not Catholics are forgattinp his OK
| istence. There is no DENYING that the Of
! flee of apostolic delegate to the Upited
| states has lost its first mower and signiG-
cance. and there are good reasons for this
state of affairs.
| When il was announced that an ,nosto1-
| ic delag,+a VOC 70 he Gov, -, 81 II -,
States from, tho 500 ~ G. psta,. ,ha COR
| olics of This country exnrsssed satis,actio,
! and evnected greot ree,,Ite To certain
dee+ee tbev bavs bean 5;sa,noe,tad Tha
CT doIaao,a ,.ro,,aJ 10 - ,le -, =, nc
noIit;cion for Tho cb,,rob,r,,, 90 ,,,'o,;aa
a,,d tho ,aoe.,a -, - s e,..s
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oninio, ,,as a,,I'rass,i t,,. -, ~, ~ te
| 1aad;,t, Ca.t,,tai ~, -. ~
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..,,d vii nat $50 ~ IN my aaIu'
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nredeceseor 90 MO
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Aroh1,iho Sat. nas peem amply Luillied.
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~. ti'so Iuie'! III Washing
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-, s;.tia,iii , "a sing ms u"'ies
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-rho CathoI;n, -, $3.50 loi ~ pu, poses.
ao,'.ro,,ors ttau oeeoile ii.oiteu III
! church to ito fomndotions .r5 'uhiab .ne
now crons ont 81 ;rtar,,a,s tn - .sa
vexed school question wban Car5;naI
| SatoIIi then n simnIa rponsignor nrodnnad
| his credantiaIs md ostor,5od ~ asso,,,
! hled nreI.tas nv reaIIng a nonar in ,,,hinh
! he after n hriaf evon,inotinn a, tha s,,h
! iect nurported m Law down the law ~,
| this subject and when he exbibitad rho
/ authority of Leo XIII IN enforco bic 40
cisfop. he created consternation and IL ,vo,
manifest that a resident autboritv voc
needed TO compel acnuiescence
Catholics said il was far cry to Rome
/ and there should he near at hand ono
who could adjust disputes between bishons
! and priests. priests and priests. and hold
/ a species of ecclesiastical court Another
reason for creating the office was the de-
/ sire of Pope Leo XIII for the promotion
| of Mousignor Satolll. A fayorite of the
| Pope. he had been elevated so ranidIv
! that his prominence was causing unfayor-
/ able comment in the Vatican; vet there
! was still before him the cardinalate. To
/ this the Office OF apostolic delegate to the
I United States offered an easy stepping
stone. The office was created and Mon
| sisnor Satolli became titular archbishop.
He Is politician to his finger tips, and
having been saluted with the greatest APP
! plause by the. so-calied Liberals and taken
into their confidence, before he left he con-
ciliated the opposing faction. His arrival
! was hailed as the beginning OF the end OF
/ all fractional disputes. His departure was
/ marked by the agitation over the deposit
/ ton of Archbishop Keane from the rector
ship Of the Catholic University. Neither
! party cared for him, no one trusted him
/ and many eXecrated him. In the midst OF
the storm Archbishop Martinelii arrived.
Torn from the peaceful quiet of his mon
astery and the studiOus life of a recluse
| against his will and in obedience to the re-
peated direction of the Pope. he landed in
America just prior to Cardinal Satolli's
! departure and just in time to receive the
| denunciations hurled at the head of the re-
| firing delegate. The position was one OF
extreme difficulty. While not politician
! like Satolli, he saw the necessity of re-
naming outside of all disputes and OF
! avoiding the danger of becoming identified
with either party. This course he has
steadily pursued, with the result that
! while neither party can boast of his sup
port. both are certain that he is not an
| tagonistic to them. He has been an OBJ
I server and not 4 participant in the strug-
| gle.
1t was disappointment over the result OF
| SatOllis course and resentment al his shift
ing tactics together with the thought that
| perhaps too much had been made of him,
I which impelled the priests to adopt a diff
ferent attitude toward his successor. 1t
was their policy to show that the delegate
was recognized as a delegate only, and
! that his functions were TO be confined to
| his own Office. While they were re adv to
accept the decisions OF his court they de-
| MED to him the right to interfere in the
| matters of church politics in this country.
| Martinelli has accepted the situation with
good grace especially as it conceded with
| his own views and inclinations and ha ;
! to put II plainly. attended strictly to his
own business Thus, with the departure
| of the favorite of Pope Leo Kill the Office
has shrlInk to normal proportiOns The
| glamour has worn of. and il has become
an administrative function. pure and sim
ule
II NAV have seemed peculior that dpriu,,
the negotiations carried on hetween the
Vatican and the Administration when tho
~ - en spain
bishon Martinelli was scarcely ever men
toned, and at no time did he take part in
the affair, which was managed entirely by
Archbishop ireland. rms TACT was due