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coRRIGAN'S REPLY TO POPE.
.pcHBIsHOP INDORsES THE PAPAL
BRIEF IN FULL.

o,ber PreIates, ReDudiatiDg Certain
Doctrines, said They Were Not
Aware That They Passed as Cath
oIic Observation-Disclosures Signed the
Noues Of All the Sufragan Bish-
ms IN His Letter-Has Caused "a
soDSatton in Catholic Circles.
washington, April SO.-The text of the
,e.,er which Archbishop Corrigan of New
york addressed to the Pope in reply to
,ha napal brief on "Americanism" reach
al ,his city a few days ago. Its trans
.,iss.on has caused a sensation in Catholic
.,rcles 1t shows that the Archbishop
Inc of the entire American hierarchy
,rdorses in full the papal brief.
cardinal Gibbons. in his reply to the
,onal admontion, repudiated certain doc
,ripes and said he was not aware that
.,,cb teachings passed current as Catho>
ii. doctrine Archbishops Ireland and
t,eane said practically the same thing, as
AID number of other prelates. Even sucn
leaders of the German patty as Arch
nisbon Katzer of Milwaukee and Bishop
tJorstmann of Cleveland solemnly protest
al 10 the Pope that the errors which he
Rad designated as "Americanism" had no
,lace in che American Catholic Church.
Catholics here think that the New York
nrelate did another remarkable thing in
SIGNING the letter in the name of all the
suffragan bishops of New York province.
According to the usual etiquette, each
biebop has the right to reply to the Pope
IN his own name 1t is known here that
al least four of the suffragan bishops do
NOT indOrse the sentiments in their arch
bishops letter.
Another matter which causes comment
is the recollection of the fact that Arch
bishop Corrigan gave the imprimatur Of
ecclesiastical sanction to the book on
Father Hickey's life, which is the pri-
mary cause of the present disturbance.
The churchmen say it is supposed that
when prelate formally indorses a publ
cation he stands sponsor for its sound
ness. They are, therefore. surprised that
Archbishop Corrigan should now refuse to
defend the doctrine which his previous
action caused to be spread broadcast
among American Catholics.
The text OF the archbishop's letter IS,
In part as follows:
Most Holy Father. We cannot express
in words the feeling of admiration, of joy
and of gratitude with which our heart
has been penetrated toward Your Holiness
in reading the mastery and admirable let
ter which you have deigned to address
to US on what, for some time past, has
been designated under the name of Amer
icanism 1t is with the greatest wisdom
that your holiness has united into one
group the many and fallacious errors
which some would like to pass for good
Catholic teaching under the specious title
of AmerCanism.'
I'VE receive, then, and accept
for ourselves, our clergy and for the COM
munities and for congregations, which
with US work for the salvation of souls
and as well as for all faithful, your holi-
ness docuinal letter testem benevolentae
We accept it, and make it our own, word
for word, and sentence for sentence. =
In its regard we shall never make,
nor shall we ever permit that others de-
n pending from us, either directly or indi-
Il rectly. should make any reservation or
regeneration Your holiness has spok-
en-; the question is, therefore, ended
We can say also that the monster
4 which, in order 10 obtain a lasting abode,
& to acquire the rights of citizenship among
n us assumed to itself the fair name of
'Americanism' has on it's first appearance
been struck down dead. But it is to you
that the glory of this happy result is due.
ID If your holiness had not opportunely come
n 10 our aid with your admirable letter, how
numerous might have been those who
through ignorance rather than malice
would have been caught in the trap.
And now with our heads high, we can
repeat that we are Americans as truly as
any one who ever he may be. Yes, we are,
and We glory in it,"