Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-10
RED HAT TO FARLEY
Reports Persistent That He
Will Be Elevated.
HONOR EXPECTED IN 1908
Year of the Centenary Of the New
York Diocese.
HONOR EXPECTED IN 1908
CATHEDRAL WILL BE READY
Great Changes in This Country
Thought to Be Reason for
the Conservation.

NEW YORK, December 10-The Tunes
yesterday published the following w.tt
regard to the probability Of Archbishop
Farley being elevated to the cardinalate
when Archbishop Farley was in Roms
last summer he announced to his holiness
Pope Piux that in the spring of zoos
the Catholic diocese of New York would
celebrate the first hundred years of its
existence. The pope was informed of the
nature of the celebration he was told that
at that time it was expected that the last
dollar of Indebtedness on the cathedral
would have been paid and that the build
ing would be ready for conservation. And
now the belief is gaining currency that
this anniversary will be marked by the
raising of the head of the New York do
cese to the rank of cardinal.
"A full college of cardinals consists of
seventy members of the following rank
Six cardinal bishops, fifty cardinal priests
and fourteen cardinal deacOns The Gre
alton of cardinal is entirely optional
with the pope; custom, however, has usu
ally governed the number of cardinals
appointed in different countries At pres
ent there are thirty-five cardinals in
Italy, five in Spain. five in Austria, three
in France, three In Germany and one re-
spectively in Ireland. Portugal. Australia,
South America and the United States. The
college of cardinals thus lacks fourteen
of its full number France heretofore has
had five cardinals in addition to those she
has at present, while England and Bel
GUM each has had one. Whether the
pope Will make these seven appointments
before the convocation of the next con-
sistory is. of course not known. 1t is be-
Ieved however that he Will create two
more Italian cardinals, thus leaving five
of the fourteen vacancies in the college
to be filled by prelates from other coun-
tries. 1t is from these five according to
current belief that the creation of one or
more American cardinals will be made.
Rome Correspondents Views.
1.-THE subject is thus discussed by the
Rome correspondent of prominent Cath
Ollie paper in a current issue:
1.-The church in the United States has
never had more than one cardinal living,
but that is not to be considered an OBJ
stacle to an increase in the number. for
two reasons When Cardinal Gibbons was
created, little more than twenty years
ago, the church in the United States occC
pied a position of far less importance
than it does today; there were fewer
bishops. fewer priests and several mil
lions fewer people; the Catholic body
was less compactly organized. The great
change that has taken place in the Unit
ed States during these twenty years is
that to my certain knowledge the holy
see has several times in recent years con-
sidered the advisability of creating an
other American cardinal and has been
have now quite passed away. 1t might he
taken for certain, therefore, another
American cardinal will be created in the
near future, perhaps even in the next
consistory
But who will it be? AS a matter of
fact there are at preser. only three Amer
lean bishops whose na les are likely to
be considered just now by the holy see
Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia; Arch
bishop Quigley of Chicago and Arch
bishop Farley of New York.
IA careful study of the dioceses of the
whole world will show that in many re-
spects New York, after Rome itself is the
most important in the Catholic Church
today. In the first place New York is the
metropolis of the western world, besides
being second only to London in popula-
ton; with its Catholic population of
about million and a half. it contains al
most as many Catholics as the whole Of
England. and certainly more than the
whole of Australia-and this Catholic
population is increasing and will inevi-
tably increase by leaps and bounds in the
future. Then, again, New York is about
to celebrate an event hitherto very rare
in the history of American dioceses-that
of the first centenary of it's establishment
diocese. With Piux all these con-
siderations would not tip the balance
were they not supported by his great
TEEN and affection for the archbishop
of which his holiness makes no secret
Strength of the Diocese.
According to the statistics in the Cath
Ollie directory, out of a total Catholic pop
ulation in the United States of 1861 ,944
the dioceses of New York and Chicago
have a population each of 100000. the
largest number found in any of the ninety
dioceses and archdiocese in this coun-
try. Territorially the diocese of Chicago
is more than twice as large as that of
New York
Roman Catholic worship. according to
church historians, was not regularly es-
tablished in New York until the emil of
the revolution, the public celebration of
the mass not having been permitted in
the days of British rule. The few Roman
Catholics who, were in the city at that
time worshiped occasionally, and in Sc
eret. in carpenter shop in Barclay
street. where in 1875. four years Def ire
the first Catholic diocese was established
in this country in Baltimore, the corner
stone of the Church of St Peter. the first
Roman Catholic Church in New York. was
laid. There were about 400 Catholics in
the city at the time. Until 1889 this
church was under the jurisdiction of the
Bishop of London. but from that date
until the New York diocese was created,
in 1908. 1t was governed by Bishop Car
roll, the head of the church in Baltimore.
Three Other Centennials.
simultaneously with the formation Of
the New York diocese bishops were sent
to Boston, Philadelphia and Bardstown.
KY, in all of which places. therefore.
the Roman Catholic church will hold
centennial celebration in 1908.
TT was under Archbishop Hughes that
the diocese was reduced to its present
territorial dimensions and raised to an
archdiocese. In this period also, in the
year 1858 the cornerstone of the present
cathedral was laid, the land on which 1t
stands having been purchased in 1920 by
the parishes of St. Peters and st. Pat
rtck's for the sum of $500 The value
placed on the same piece of land today is
S6OOo.0O0; with the cathedral it's total
value is about S10,o0O,0O0.
First Talk of Cardinal.
''The first talk of a cardinal for the do
-cese of New York came during the adj
ministration of Archbishop Hughes, and
under peculiar circumstances. From the
commencement of the civil war Arch
bishop Hughes gave his active and en-
thusiastic support to the of the
Union. and this to such an extent that
President Lincoln requested him to visit
Europe as a special envoy of the govern
ment, to do his best to counterfeit the in
fueEce of the confederate agents. who
were appealing fer European interference
in behalf of the south. In spite of the
protests of some of his brother prelates.
Archbishop Hughes accepted the mission
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