The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-18

acter and suavc manner. He IS of short
stout buiId-in fact is ore of the smallest
.clerics in stature in the diocese
Record Finnncier.
AS financier the rapidity with which he
cleared off the $3.50 900 mortgage on the Dun
woodie Seminary as the gift for Archbish
op Corrigan's jubilee, gave all the evidence
that the critic could require.
Mgr. Mooney comes from Kingston, n.
Y, but he was born in PENNSYLVANIA dur
ing temporary visit there OF his parents,
in July, 1SiS He was also educated in st.
Johns College, Fordham, and made his the
ological course in the diocesan seminary
then located in Troy, where he was Or
dained a priest in 1871. He remained in the
seminary as professor of mental philosophy
for eight years He left Troy for the rec
torShip of st. Patrick's Church. Newberg,
n T., whence. in 1890 he came to this city
TO be pastor Of the Church of the Sacred
Heart, in West ITifty-frst street He
made chancellor of the diocese. succeeding
Mgr. Mcdonnell. in 1892. and four months
later, on the death of the late Mgr. Pres
ION, he was appointed vicar general of the
diocese. which office he has since filled with
satlslactlon to every one.
Blshop is defined as one who mas re-
ceived the plentitude of the priesthood as
instituted for the government of the
church; He is superior to the priests, be
cause he can administer the sacraments of
ordination and continuation, which they
cannot, and because the founder of the
church has willed that they should rule
dioceses-that is. both priests and laics. An
Archbishop who is a metropolitan. or ruler
of chief city or metropolis of a Province
has now only limited jurisdiction over his
suuraGans. This in regard to the latter is
supervisory and of an admonitory char
acter and for their subjects in an appellate
sense.
The appointment of every Bishop rests
absolutely with the Pope. The office is in
his unrestricted gift. but he does not al
ways exercise this power. There is can
oniCal procedure that allows the perma-
nent rectors and consultors of each do
cese to make nominations of three candi-
dates they consider worthy of the dignity.
These names are then sent by them to
Rome ard to the other suffragan Bishops
of the Province to which the vacant See
belongs The Bishops may approve these
selections. or they may reject them entirely
and make a new list with three names of
their own choice and refer that to Rome.
There the names are weighed and consid-
cred by the Committee of Cardinals known
ganda. The one these Cardinals think best
fitted for the office is given to the Pope,
and he, If he agrees with their choice. rat-
fies II, and the Bull of Conservation Is
drawn up and issued to the prelate elect
1t is the commission of his episcopal office
in which he cannot be consecrated until 1t
is accepted by him and formally offered to
the conseCrating prelate at the ceremony.
The Propaganda or the Pope may turn
down all the names sent to Rome by both
priests and Bishops and ask for new list:
when the procedure OF local selection must
be gone through all over again. or can
didate not named at all by the local cleo
tors, and not even belonging to the diocese
may be appointed. Grave reasons, of
course, are usually present when this last
tlons among the clergy. of the diocese. lax
discipline or other manifest need of a rad
lcal change In methods of government and
administrative policy.