The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-06-18
NEW HOLY CROSS ORDER.

| America In most dIoceses and archdioceses where
the Fathers and Sisters of the Holy Cross are en-
gagged in missionary works be it the education OF
the youth the nursing of the sick or the care OF
the orphans their works are appreciated and then
! labors extolled. In Notre Dame Ind their 1lniver
sity stands at the head of educational institutions
Locally we point with pride to the great work ac-
complished in the schools and academies that are
conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Cross whilst
their good work In our hospital and orphanage
cannot be sufficiently praised But the very name
Holy Cross so dear to the MEMBERS is now con
flscated by the first established monasc order of
the Protestant Episcopal church in America They
have their monastery of the Holy Cross at West
Park, on the west bank of the Hudson, opposite
Poughkeepsie. The Churchman thus describes the
monastery:
The sight is one to charm and attract medi-
eval Benedlctlne. In front sweeps the broad Hud-
son, beyond rises the stately country house of
Vanderbilt; but a reverend father said with a
CLEAN in his eye, The river flows between Vine
yards all around the monastery the hillside slop-
IN gsteeply toward the river, suggest with the
friendly aid OF little Imagination to picture their
full growth, those monaseres that nestle amid
their vines on the banks of the Danube
The Order of the Holy Cross has earned this
home by twenty years of faithful prayer and work
for the church. Founded in 1880 with Father J. o.
,. huntington, its superior, as its first pro-
tessed member, it has grown until it now counts six
professed monks, seventeen celibate priests init
mately associated with the order as the Society of
Oblates of Mt. Calvary, and eighteen other priests
associate bound to it by rule less strict Beside
these there are some 600 lay associates banded to-
gether as the COnfraernity of the Christian Life
and smaller society the Confraternity of the Love
of God, whose distinction is its especial devotion
to the blessed sacrament"
Wonders will never cease in the religious world
Whilst all ''the lights" that are springing up
daily and claiming Christian origin are receding
farther and farther away from the old church and
true Christianity, the Oldest fallen away churches
are retracing their steps, and coming so close that
''the paper partition" which, we are so often told
only separates them from the Catholic church"
will soon disapper Instead of parson you have
Father j. 0. S. Huntington. The new Order of
the Holy Cross has six professed monks How this
name-Protestant monk-will jar the cards of a
good pious Methodist! There are seventeen cell,
bate priests" The great boast of the reformers
always has been that Luther Ga monk and celibate)
did away forever with celibacy. "rhe new order of
the Holy Cross" has also introduced "the con-
fraternity of the love of God, whose distinction is
its special devotion to the blessed sacrament" The
Churchman should capitalize the two last words.
What will our evangelical brethren think of this
rapid stride and adoption of Catholic superstition?
1t would now seem to dawn upon Father j. o. S.
Huntington and the members of the confraternity
that our Lord meant what he said when at the Last
Supper he took bread and blessed it, and said:
"This is my body" But to whom did he speak the
wordss do this for commemoration of me-
That miraculous power not given indiscrimin-
ately to all his followers by Christ 1t was con-
ferred on the apostles, and through them on their
successors Here the question of the validity of An
glican orders comes in. They appealed to the late
Pope Leo XIII asking his opinion thereon His de-
,ison given in 1896 settles the matter for all time
A writer in the London Times at that time said:
They have been referring to every possible au-
hority in the hope of obtaining somewhere an opin-
on favorable to their case. They have appealed
o the Greek church Greek priests are validly or
lained), but the Greek church will have nothingto
ay to them They have tried the Jansenist au-
horities in Holland but the Jansenists, after
ong and careful inquiry, found that they could
i've them no comfort As a last hope they turned
o the Holy See, and they have now got their an
wer from it." The missing link could not be sup
lied, and Notwithstanding their exalted ambition,
heir playing at the Mass is vain pretension and
the devotion to the blessed sacrament by the con-
paternity of the love of God" is an illusion We
eca our correction for the use of capital letters
or blessed sacrament, which is supposed to be in
ne monastery of the Holy Cross.
The new monastery recently dedicated and
mong other things Father Osborne, of the Society
St John the Evangelist, had this to say:
when Professionalism had come to wreck the
nth of England he said, the religious life seemed
one; Its restoration seemed an impossibility a
cookery. Yet thirty-six years ago at Cowley the
'ligious life came back to England and here was
le first monastery for priests of the church in
merica."
He does not state why the monastic or religious
fe seemed gone, though strangely enough he
'eaks of Professionalism coming to wreck the
18th of England He falls into the old error that
as common among the laity at that period
l1nely, that monasticism was superior to the secu-
priesthood divinely instituted by Christ Father
sborne, of the Society of st. John the Evangelist,
identity never read the writings of st. Thomas
luinas, who in his "Summa" writes: 'In view of
e difficulty attaching to the cure of souls the
ate of the parishpriest is far more perfect than