The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-11-19
IMPOSING SCENE.
Festivities in Honor of Jubilee O
Immaculate Conception

Immaculate Conception.
Rome, Nov. 1.-THE festivities II
honor Of the jubilee Of the Immaculat :,
conception may be said to have begun
Today with the holding of brilliant
ronsistory, which was especially inter.
esting as the pope lately had been in.
disposed and many persons wished tC
be assured Of his recovery. All The
cardinals living in Rome NUMBERING
a bout twenty five. gathered ia the
hall Of the consistory at the vatican
half an hour before the ceremC-.y. TAX
ing their places i'm three groups
cardinal bishops, cardinal priests and
cardinal demonstrating. one of the
imposing pictures only To be seen al
The apostolic palace.
The United States was represented
a the consistory by Mgr Kennedy.
rector Of the American college here.
and Mgr Seton. titular archbishop of
Heliopolis Of Jersey City. y. J. Mgr.
keeney at the private consistory re-
ceived the paIlium for Archbishop
Glennon of st. Louis
The pallium for Archbishop Moeller
Of Cincinnati. was received at the
secret consistory by Father Haver.
private secretary Of Cardinal Gotti.
project of the propaganda. and the
Milwaukee, was received by Mgr.
JauQuet
In the secret consistory the pope de
1ivered an allocution recalling the
origin Of the concordat and the reasons
(which induced Pope Plus VII to con-
clude it with Napoleon. especially re-
5erring to the provisions made for the
appointment of bishops. the budget of
the ministry Of public worship which
was regulated by what was practically
2 contract and finally the free exercise
Of Catholic worship. He added that the
so-called organic articles added in
1902 by Napoleon had never been
recognized by the holy see. either as
law or as being part of the concordat.
Therefore the pontiff deplored the fact
that the present government of the
French republic had under various
pTetexts charged the holy see with
not having observed the concordat.
adding that the church had never i'm
The case OF any country infringed an
agreement made. The pope concluded
with saying that the French govern
nent, which had broken the fundamen-
tai conditions of the concordat. was also
opposed to divine and natural law.
The pope complained of the impossi-
hility, due to the existing state of af-
fairs. of appointing bishops to the
y acant sees in Franco. but expressed
the hope that AN understanding would
he reached.
The majority of the cardinals pres
ent considered the allocution rather
mild and remarked that the pope
omitted the part upon which he pre-
viously had consulted several of the
cardinals, in which he was to have
appealed TO the people of France and
10 have urged them to be loyal to the
church and use their rights as citizens
to prevent the government from perse-
cutting religion.
The pontiff entered the hall of the
consistory surrounded by his immedi-
ate encourage, thanked by the noble
and Swiss guards and followed by the
pspal court. He seated himself on
the throne and those present advanced
TO pay their homage, after which the
pope delivered a prayer to the Holy
Ghost Following this all except the
cardinals left the hall, as the consis-
tory was secret. The. pope and car
dinals then proceeded to proclaim the
archbishops, bishops, etc, as already
appointed by brief, which was a mere
form, and the pope delivered his allo-
pution.
Immediately after the secret consis- !
tory the pope held a semi-public con-
sstory preliminary to the ceremony of 4
the canonization of Blessed Alessandro |
SAUL, the Barnabite, and Blessed Ge-
Tardo Mailli, the RedemptoriSt, which |
takes place next month.
All agree that outside of the fact
that he has a somewhat careworn eX-
preston, the pope. notwithstanding his
recent attack of govt, seems to be in !
good health.