The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-09
ARCHBISHOP OF FRANCE.
John J. keane Says Pope Piul
Will Not Create Cardinal.
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Archbishop John J. Keane, formerly
rector of the Catholic University Mt
washington, and now head OF the
Archdiocese Of Dubuque, Iowa, return
Ell on Sunday from France. where he
HRS been at Il health resort for heart
| trouble, and. incidentally. studying the
| trench situation from close range. In
the course of an informal chaat yes
terday afternoon at the P;,ulist House
IN West 59th street the Archbishop
! made two significant renlarks-that
Pope Plus \ would never hold a con-
sistory during his reign to create
American or any other cardinals, and
that the Pope neither cared nor EXPECT
ed to live long.
AS to the French situation. he said
the solution of the whole question re-
manned In the hands OF the French
prelatas who will meet in Paris to out
line Il campaign and take action on
the Pope's recent note.
Pope Plus" the archbishop said,
was practically forced on the Papal
throne He did not wish the responsi-
bility. He will not live long. He
doesn't want to. In my opinion, he
will never hold consistory. and the
outlook for the creation of another
American cardinal is not encouraging.
The Pope. a few days after his eleva-
ton. declared that he would never hold
consistory and that he did not wish
tn have long pontificate I believe
his wishes will be fulfilled He APP
pointed Merry del Val Il cardinal out
of necessity. He was selected to be
Secretary of State. and at the time
there was Il vacancy in the College of
Cardinals. But take note that he has
held no consistory as yet.
IF the Pope should decide to honor
this country believe he would not
create one cardinal, but two. and they
would be the Archbishop of New York
and that great Catholic in the West,
Archbishop Ireland"
Asked what he thought of the out
come of the meeting of the French
prelates would be. he said:
God alone knows. Even the pre-
lates themselves cannot forecast what
their action will be. Anybody can tell,
however, what the action of the French
government will be. met distin-
guished prelate few days before
sailed and said to him:
MonsignOr. where do you expect
to say mass six months from now"
He shook his head and replied:
Who can tell?'
No living person outside of France,
llnacquainted with the French mind
and the French customs, can under
stand this situation; no more can an
outsider say this is right and this is
wrong. l would not venture to pro-
phesy nor to express an opinion about
the outcome. am satisfied in my own
mind that the Church is not getting
what we call square deal. 1t never
Will under the present state of politics.
The French government is unalterably
opposed to Christianity in France. Its
whole bent is to drive the Catholic re-
ligion out of the country and substi-
tute for it a civil religion. A civil re-
ligion; that is the ultimate goal.
You ask me what is the root of all
this trouble? I'll answer you; The
root. the tree, the branches, the sup
porting basis of the whole political
fabric which is bent on destroying the
Church Is Freemasonry. Now, UNDER
stand me, the Freemasonry that exists
in France today is not the Freema-
sorry VI Great Britain or America.
question whether there is a masonic
lodge in the country that would recog-
nize the acts of Masonry in France
There Masonry Is goddess; its whole
aim is to destroy all religion and to
worship its own thoughts. Here the
greatest men in the nation are Masons
and God-fearing, God-loving men.
There the opposite exists. Could any
religion expect justice from such a
group of men?"
Asked why the Pope opposed the
Separation law when, as matter of
fact, the Church was willing that there
should be no connection between the
civil government and the government
of the Church. the Archbishop replied
that that was matter of justice.
1.-THE Concordat is contract" he
said. Every contract is bilateral. The
French government was not legally
justified in breaking that contract
without consulting the second party to
it, the Catholic Church. but broke it
because it was the only way to the
end in view. l want to repeat now,
that the whole situation is essentially
national. To understand it you have
to understand the French people, the
French customs, the French bent of
mind. The Pope has shown remark
able wisdom on this point He is con-
WINGED in his own mind that the
Church is being prosecuted. But he
knows that the persons best qualified
to solve the situation are those who
live there. Every word of that note
echoes the will, the dictation of the
French clergy; so today they them
selves will be confronted with the way
out. The rest of the Church can only
pray and wait with anxiety the out
come"
The archbishop said the Catholic
University in a few years would have