The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-06
TEXT OF. The BULL
Pope Leo Makes Some Striking Rul-
ings Regarding the Phil
* ippine Church.
The Washington Government Much
Gratified at the Text and Tone
of the Message.
Now York Sun Special Service.


Washington. Jan. 6.-The text, Of the
papal bull concerning the Philippines has
reached this city and many passages in
the document show that Pope Leo XIII
fully appreciates the new conditions in
those islands. After reciting the progress
that the church made under the Spanish
kings and the advance toward civilization
and religion achieved by the islands dur
ing that period the bull says:
But the fortune Of war which changed
the civil government of the country has
involved changes in the spiritual govern
ment also. For with the cessation of
Spanish rule the right of patronage of the
Spanish kings has also ceased and the
church has come into greater liberty with
the just partition of it's rights from those
OF the civil government
This language has attracted keen at
tention among ecclesiastics. as it is the
keynote Of the apostolic constitution pro-
mulgated for the future government of the
islands. The supreme pontiff, after
brief review Of the present religious con-
ditions, ordains that the Philippine HER
archy hereafter shall be independent from
Spanish patronage and that the archbis-
hop of Manila shall be primate, the islands
forming his province. The first step taken
I'm solving the different religious problems
thus engendered is the erection Of the
four new doceses.
'Wherefore to the archdiocese Of Ma
nia,' the bull reads land to the dioceses
of Cuba Caceres, Neesegobia and lara
we add and institute the new dioceses Of
Lipa, Tuguegaroa, Capizana and Zambo-
anga. all Of which are to be like the others
-suffragans Of the metropolitan see OF
Manila. Moreover. in the Marian islands.
we create a prefecture apostolic, which is
to be directly dependent upon us and upon
our SUCCESSORS
Speaking directly Of the recent nego-
tiatiOns of the commission under Governor
Taft the pope says:
subsequently, to our satisfaction, the
government of the United States of Amer
tca sent special legation to confer with
the Holy See for the solution of some
questions touching Catholcity in the
Philippine islands. We gladly seconded
the enterprise and, thanks to the skill
and moderation Of the negotiators, an
easy way was opened for, settlement,
which is now to be carried out on the
spot
The document does not deal directly
with the future disposition Of the friars
IN the Philippines, that is obviously the
province of Mgr. Guidi and Governor Taft
who are now engaged in negotiations con-
corning this matter.
The erection Of the new bishoprcs, how
ever, is significant of the fact that in
future the religious direction of these is
lands will be according to the western
nonmonastic mode, rather than the orien-
tal. and that the religious orders will be
shorn Of many privileges, which are no.
inherent, but which have accrued in the
Islands through custom. Any member:
of the monastic orders who remain in The
Islands will be economically responsible tt
the executive bishops Of the dioceses il
which they are situated, thus bestowins
upon the bishops the actual jurisdiction
formerly sustained by the various super
Tors Of the monastic orders.
The tenor and policy Of the new con
stitution is showed in the words of it,
PRONUNCIATION: ~4 -.
I'VE do now by this present ,apostoli,
constitution make. and publish the pro
visions which seem to- to@be Of tn
utmost Importance for the church in tn
Philippines, with the hope that what W.
ordain by our supreme authority will
thanks to the equity and justice of tn
American government be studiously an
sacredly Observed"
The secretary of war and the official
of the insular bureau are much gratifie
by the lang age and the evident purpos
of the pontiff to second their efforts t
BOlVe the Phiinnine nrOh1em