The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-08-01

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for just cause Three Irish cardinals
owe their elevation to3tlle sacred col
lege to him. Cardinal McCabe of Dub
lin, deceased: Cardinal Moran of sgd
ney, Australia. and Cardinal Logue-of
Armagh, Ireland.
The first official act of Leo XIII aftet
his coronation was the re-establish
ment of the Catholic hierarchy in Scot
land, which hierarchy had disappeared
in consequence of the Protestant Re
formation.
France Source of Anxiety.
No nation has been. the source Of
more anxiety and sorrow to Pope Leo
NH than France. BY her irFelig1euS
conduct. the iniouitous law of associa-
tions, the hindering of a God-given
right to-lixe together in common, the
dispersion of religious orders, the con-
fiscation of their properties, the driving
away from their native land those
whose only offense was the good they
did, France has manifested d hatred
against God and His Church which IS
almost diabolic. Churches, chapels'
schools, academies, colleges, converts
monaSteries have been closed; hospltai9
and schools have been laicized; cardl-
hampered in their ministry, and to
crown all. all this in a so-called Catho-
lie nation. Oh, France, France! how
low art thou fallen Where is thy
boasted doctrine of the rights of man
What has become of thy shibbolethS,
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity?
Leo XIII often tried to bring about 4
better state of things. He counseled
falling into line with the republic ana
frankly accepting it as the will of the
people. Hi counsels were disregarded,
and as a consequence France is torn
into factions. We know what the end
will be if this lasts for the Savior has
solemnly declared that house divided
in itself shall fall. What an anomaly
does France present to the nations of
the world today. She persecutes the
Church and her children at home ana
pretends to be their protector abroad.
She. a so-called Catholic nation. drives
out the members of religious orders,
and Protestant lands open their arms
to welcome them.
In the Orient.
In Africa. Pope Leo, ever watchful
over the Oriental rites appointed a pa
triarch of the Copts in Alexandria, AMI
he restored to be the primatial see of
Africa. the historical see of st. Cyp-
rian. that of Carthage after eleven
centuries of interruption Through
Leo's influence. Cardinal Lavigerie
succeeded in arousing the nations OF
the world to suppress the slave trade
In India, the Catholic hierarchy was
established: the veXed questions OF
Portuguese patronage and the right OF
padroads were settled. A permanent
q postolic delegation was esta blished,
and an East Indian seminary was
founded fer the education of native as
pirants to the priesthood.
In Japan a Catholic hierarchy was
esta blished. and singular privileges
were granted to the church and its
ministers in China.
In the Philippine islands weighty
questions of the relations of church and
state had to be solved after the defeat
of Spain by United States armc. Leo
XIII appointed an American archbish-
op. Mgr Chapelle of New Orleans to
be apostolic delegate to the Philippines,
TO Cuba and to Porto Rico the newly
Spanish colonies. The visit
of Governor Taft to the Holy Father
in Rome, and the appointment of Mgr,
Guidi as delegate apostolic in Manila,
the appointment of American bishops
and priests in the archipelago bid fair
to satisfactorily conclude the negotia-
tons.
Leo's Love of America
Leo XIII had always borne a great
owe for America, and he predicted that
she would be the leading power in the
world. He created two cardinals in
merica-Cardinal Gibbons of Balti-
more and Cardinal Taschereau of Que
oec. He established two apostolic del |
.gations, one in Washington, the othe: |
n ottawa. He established the Catholic |
in Washington, settled the |
Texed controversy about the Lavel |
between Quebec and Mon
real, and made the University of OF |
ava pontifical university. He erect !
ID three new archbishopricS-i. e., Chi |
ago. Dubuque and St. Paul-and |
wenty-seven new bishoprics in the |
United States amongst them your own
harming city of Salt Lake. Pope Leo |
XIII associted himself with the Worlds /
air at Chicago, sent a letter to all the
Iishops of Italy. of Spain. and of Latin
america. concerning it. and sent price
ess historical souvenirs to Chicago.
lie was also personally represented by /
Mgr now Cardinal, Satolli.
His Lithurgical Works.
He has appointed a commission to
evise the Roman Breviary. He has
established feasts in the. Church, and
las himself composed the office of at
east one of them, that of the Feast or
he Holy Family. He has declared ven
rable many servants of God, beatified
lore and canonized many saints. He
as made obligatory for the Universal
'hurch the Mass and Office of the
lpostles of Nations, viz: st. Angus
inc, Apostle of England; SITS. Cyril
nd Methodius, the Apostles of the
Law, people; st. Josaphat. Martyr in
.ussia. He has declared Doctors of the
hurch, st. Cyril of Jerusalem, st. Cy-
il of Alexandria, ST John Damascene,
nd st. Venerable Bede of England,
nd has made obligatory on the whole
hurch their office and mass.
1t was in his doctrinal and moral
,achings that Leo excelled. Herein has
e faithfully carried out the precept
f the Master: Let your light so
line before men that they may glorify
our Father, who is in heaven And
le name that ST Malachy had given
i'm in prophecy seven centuries ago.
Lumen in Coelo," was indeed true
How eloquent his words on the rights
the Holy See! How solemn his warn-
gs on the evils of divorce and the
sruption of family ties! how earn
,tly he pleads about the sanctity of
arriage and its indestructibility! And
len, how clearly he defines the rights {
labor and the rights of capital each
its own place! With what irresist-
lie and irrefutable logic he tears
lwn the structure of Socialism. and
lows that the only way to live con-