The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-11-14
Cardinal Rampolla Strikes Those Who Meet
Him as Man of Tremendous
Power and Character.
while the First Thing That lmpresses One
in the New Secretary is His
Exquisite Polish.

+, will be based on the system adopted
ty Leo XIII, which consisted simply
in examining every question on its
merits. 1t is possible that Plus X may
counsel Italian Catholics to take in the
political elections in ltaly-he is the
| best judge Of that, and as a matter of
fact the subject has very slight inter
est for the rest of the world. But one
thing is quite certain: He will not ac-
cept the intolerable condition imposed
OIL the holy see by the Italian govern
ment. He begins his pontificate by
refusing to receive the president Of the
tie guest of the head of the Italian
state. This fact alone destroys all
the hypothesis of any impossible con-
citation which have been brOached
i'll the papers. In the coming consist
ory it is probable that three cardinals,
besides Mgr. Merry del Val will be
c].eated-Mgr. Callegari, archbishop of
P;tdua; Mgr. Bonazzi, archbishop Of
Bcneventum, and Mgr. Veccia, secre-
tary-genel1l of the congregation of
propaganda. Another consistory will
b, held in January or February, and
three more cardinals will be created
but VoX Urbis has reason to believe
that no American prelate will be found
among the number.
one of the results of the recent ex-
citing events at the vatican has been
to draw together in very remarkable
way the correspondents of Catholic
papers in different parts of the world.
Hitherto we hardly knew one another,
now we often meet and are thus en-
ahed to acquire valuable information
about the social and religious condi-
ti"ns of the different countries to
Which we belong. How much we have
to learn from contact may be cleaned
from the extraordinary misconceptions
contained in an article which has just
appeared in the Osservatore of Milan.
When it is remembered that this paper
is far and away the best and most
interesting Catholic journal in Italy,
and that the writer of the article in
question is brilliant young priest
who writes with judgment and force
on Italian topics, 1t will be seen that
We have much to learn about other
norn1nS than o,,r oxx,,, HNl,o ,,,,;+o,, ID
votes an editorial to recent CORE
sp0ndence in the New York Freeman's
Journal, treating, among other things,
of rhe misguided admiration Of certain
Catholics in Italy for Anglo -Saxonism;
the writer boldly proclaims that he is
among those ''social Catholics who al
low themselves the luxury of admiring
the Anglo Saxons and of the progress
Of Catholicity among the Anglo-Sax-
ons,' and "nOurish sympathy for the
An!;lo-Saxons'
Last Sunday. again, the Holy Fa-
ther preached from the gospel of the
day to nearly twenty thousand people
of five of the parishes of Rome. His
sermon treated of the duties of chill
drcn to their parents and parents to
their children, and it created upon his
hcarers the same profound impression
thai has followed his words on each
of the three occasions in which he
has already addressed them. Every
day almost his holiness receives hun
dreds of visitors or pilgrims in one of
the loggie of the vatican. and very
frequently he seizes the opportunity
for delivering brief discourse on
SOME of the duties of Christian life.
The fact is that Plus X. has not vet
forgotten that he is not a simple par
ish priest. When he was bishop of
'N1a''tua twenty years ago he consoled
him self with the thought that after all
diocese was only very large parish,
and when he began to recover from
the hewilderment of his elevation to
tlt pontificate, he remarked to one of
the cardinals: "Well, 1 am consoled
with the reflection that being Pope is
only being bishop-on a larger SCALE"
Tie committee for the celebration
of the fiftieth anniversary of the I'm