The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-24
Officials Wish Authority Of Pope
to Be Recognized.
STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT
The Head Of The Sisters Of the Second
Order Is Called the Mother
General.

New York, May a-Those Epicopalians
who insist upon the word Catholic"
and resent the term Protestant" as
applied to themselves are stirred up over
the announcement in the Episcopal pa
pers by Bishop Coleman, of Delaware,
that he has ceased to have any connec-
ton with the Society of the Atone
ment. the headquarters of which are at
Graymoor. N. Y.
One OF these Catholic priests OF this
city said yesterday that Bishop Coleman
is "a low churchman who delights in
ritual because IL is pretty. When the real
Catholcity, of which ritual is the proper
expression. is in peril the bishop of Del
aware takes fright and gives a flaming
notice in all the papers that he will not
stand for it,"
Bishop Coleman has been the chaplain
OF the society. The statement of the
minister-general OF the society that the
Protestant Episcopal church ought to
go into the Roman Catholic church and
acknowledge the pope's authority has
offended Bishop Coleman. IL is said. and
hence his public notice OF a severance
OF his connection with the society. One
member of the Catholic" party said
yesterday that he did not know whs
was its more fatal friend. the minister.
general or the bishop.
HOME OF ST. PAUL's FRIARY.
The Society OF the Atonement has for
its minister-general Father Paul James
1lI la
a few months ago in st. Barnabas' church
Brooklyn. and Snere advocated recogni
tiop Of Episcopalians of the authority
OF the Pope.
He was formerly in. the Order of the
Holy Cross at Westminster, Md, the
head of which is the Rev. j. o. S. Hunt
ington. son OF Bishop Huntington, C.
Central New York.
He founded. about three years ago, what
he calls st. Pauls Friary. Ii is on the
side OF a mountain, which has been
named Mount Of the Atonement, and
on the other side Is a convent in which
are housed the Sisters of the Second
order OF the society.
There are four members OF the male
society and IL sisters. Three days ago
a new member was taken into the first
society who is said to have been He
brew There is a Third order, members
OF which are clergy and laymen, and
these supply the funds to support the
other orders.
AIM OF THE SOCIETY.
The aim is to educate workers male
and female, for Catholic" parishes. The
rules and dress are the same as In the
Roman Catholic Order OF St. Francis.
AS for ritual. that is said TO be too ad-
vanced for Roman Catholics.
Father Francis" said we'll informed
Catholic yesterday is most earnest
an excellent man. but like many monks
he is enthusiastic and often blunt in his
statements. His position regarding rec
ognition OF the claims of the Pope 10
many Catholics. The position OF
Catholics is not that the Pope is right
I'm all things, but that as step toward
Christian unity the clai mof the Pope
must first be recognized Then there
will be union, and then can come that
common action toward progress that
may perhaps be needed"
The head of the Sisters of the Second
Order OF the Society of the Atonement
is called mother-general. and her name
is Lurana Mary Francis.