The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-26
Wants the Federation of Catholics to
Work Up Sentiment I'm Behalf of
Religious Orders.
TEXT OF THE RESOLUTIONS
ADOPTED BY THE FEDERATION AT
ITS LAST CONVENTION,
And Reply of the Organization Rep
resenting the Frfars i'm the Phil
ippine Archipelago.


| important documents bearing on the Philip
pine situation which has ever been sent
to this country has just been received here
at the headquarters of the American FEEDER
alton of Catholic Societies. The document is
official and comes from the Centric
Catolico de Filipinas, the most representa-
| tive Catholic body in the islands. that voices
the opinions of the bishops as well as of the
several million of loyal Roman Catholics in
| the islands. 1t bears the personal sig
nature of eight of the supreme officers of
the Centre Catolico and was forwarded
| to the American Federation of Catholic
Societies on the request of a special extraor-
binary convention held by the Centre Catol-
| leo, and Is reply to the resolutions or
! sympathy extended the friars at the late
Chicago convention. National Secretary
Matre to-day said:
THE document, coming as 1t does. i'm
mediately after the report Of Mgr. Guidi,
the apostolic delegate whose report is in
accord with the views Of the Centre Catol-
leo, will no doubt have a tendency to ma
| terially change the attitude of the American
people towards the friars and likewise
demonstrate the loyalty of the Roman Cath
Ollie Filipinos toward the new superiors."
|
the schism provoked by Bishop Aglipay,
which is supported by only fourteen priests
without reputation, but which is spreading,
is in be the Sy hs
cal party trying to persuade the population
| to rebellion against Rome, and saying that
the expulsion of the friars is indispensable
TO independence The Filipino priests, VINO
number ESQ., continued Mgr. Guidi. ARE in
| adequate to serve the parishes and missions,
which reach total of 1861, and ! am IN
@y;a 0fx,in until
have been substituted for them. This sub
stitution, however, will be slow, as the
Vatican wishes the new friars and priests
| to be Americans"
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Since the adoption and forwarding of
| the set of resolutions expressing sympa-
thy for the friars by the American Fedora
ton of Catholic Societies, National Secre-
tary Anthony Matre has been in corre-
spondence with the Centre Catolico and he
will lay the application OF the philippine
| body to become permanently affiliated with
the American Federation before the dele
gates of the national convention, which will
be held at Atlantic City from Aug. to 5.
| The resolution forwarded by the American
| Federation of Catholic Societies. TO whlch
| the official reply has been received, read:
Resolved, That extend to the friars
| i'm the Philippine islands our fullest SYM
| patty in this their hour of trial; that we
| are unmoved by the calumnies uttered
| against them; that we appreciate the value
of their services IN the cause Oh pei tsna
| our support as American citizens IN uphold
| ing the hands of our government in It's de-
| termination to see that they are treated
| with that common justice that belongs to
| AL who enjoy the protection OF the Amer
| lean flag.
Resolved, That it is our belief that all
that is required to speedily put stop to
| the whole anti-frar agitation is an honest
| and impartial enforcement OF the laws or
the United States, giving protection TO ire
| and property. We submit that peace and
| order can be best restored in those islands
by securing to the inhabitants their free
| and untrammeled exercise OF the rellglon SO
| long prevailing and now established there
| i'm. and through which the natives of those
remote lands have been lifted from barbar-
| ism to civilization"
THE REPLY.
To these resolutions the Centre Catolico
replied that it had resolved as follows:
"That each and every one of the wise and
| conservative resolutions ADOPTED py the
| federation in Chicago merit our full APP
.aThat there be formulated and forwarded
to the directive committee OF the federation
| ting forth the desire of the Centric Catollco
| de Filipenas for the success or the Ideals
which the said American Federation Oh
| Catholic Societies has proposed to realize.
THAT. as token of respect and sympathy
| for these ideals laid down in the convention
| in Chicago, this Centre Catolico de F1npe-
| mas desires to establish the most intimate
| bonds of union and friendship with the
| American Federation of Catholic Societies.
| THAT the American Federation OF Cath
| Ole Societies be requested to use In our be-
| half it's efficacious influence, that. for the
| time to come, the complete separation OIL
| church and state, as provided by the Con,
therein, be made effective here. thus avoid
ing the common occurrences OF the lnsuiar
| provincial or municipal authorities interfer-
| ing i'm matters which are or the particular
| incumbency of the church. That the Catol-
leo de Filipenas beseech the American FED
| Grafton that it aid us with its efficacious
| our Catholic schools, TO the end that the
! OFFICIAL school system may not be an OPP
pressor of our Catholic school system and
| of the legitimate rights Whlcn the law anu
| Justice have CONCEDED us.
"That we beg especially of the American
| Federation that ii labor according to it's
discretion and zeal to the end that the ex-
| listing worthy religious corporations, more
| esnecially those of the Augustinians, the
| Franciscans, the Dominicans and the Re-
collects shall continue exercising In the
Philippines the sacred ministry of preach
| ing teaching and the administering or
the holy sacraments, as they nave zone
| I'D TO the present with sucn spiritual ana
| TEMPORAL benefits TO us.
| .s,rhat the Centre Catolico beg of the
| American Federation of Catholic Societies
| that il make use of the great means II has
| and authentic information concerning the
| condition of things catholic i'm the country
| because to-day the springs or information
| are poisoned by many different sects. polit-
ical parties and race hatreds and by the
| profound resentments which are a natural
| consequence of six years of more or less
| war and disorder.
THAT the American federation be notified
| that in virtue of the Malay idosyncrasies
| of our secular habits, of the protection
| given in former times 20 the church by the
| great state of Spain and of our Pacific
| religious life, the labor of propaganda. of
| organization and of particular administra-
| ton must be very slow and accommodated
! to our special being.
bearing in mind this observation. all
| that is passing in this country may be
| easily explained. Interiorly all the Filipi-
| nos excepting those of the nonchristian
| tribes and the portion of backsliders ever
| present in time of great crises, are
| genuinely Roman Catholic apostolic Chris
| tians: and yet we see the painful
| phenomenon that n few false prophet
leaders of the rabble have arisen. proclaim
| ing themselves before the American autho-
| rites and before strangers to be the only