The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-02
How to Address PreIstes.

The hierarchiC principle necessarily
involves an apportioning of offices by
degrees that differ in regard to the re-
sponsibility that attaches to them
apart from their priestly character
The cardinal-prieStS, for example. have
10 greater priestly powers than ordi-
nary CurateS: they are nevertheless
princes of the church, and at all civil
lied courts Of the world. take the rank
and precedence of the highest nobility
Of the country in which they find them
selves. An English cardinal, for in
stance, follows Immediately after the
princes Of the blood royal. preceding
therefore, the archbishop Of Canter-
bury In the days of the temporal SOW
0eiEnty of the popes, the cardinals
were, as they still are. the pillars of
The church and We're invariably provid-
ed in consideration Of, their princely
rank with estates and adequate in
comes
An archbishop took rank with a duke.
hence the title Your Grace" a bishop
with an earl, an abbot with a baron.
hence My Lord Abbot" and an ordi-
nary priest with a knight or chevalier,
Whence the old English expression
common in England and Ireland in
pre- Reformation" days, "Sir Priest
The title LORD is of course a trans
Huon of the Latin word "Dominus"
and cannot justly, as is occasionally
cone by ignorant non-Catholics in Eng
land, be withheld from the Catholic
'isAops. whose social titles. like their
gl.-esastical. are unquestionably valid
Ihaeed, the only just claim English
Iirotestant bishops and archbishops can
nave To their lordly titles, arises from
me fact that they hold seats in the
LllSllsn house Of lords. seats which
were originally occupied by the CathO-
le oishons till the Reformation" All
COURTS nowadays admit the claims in
7aLd 70 address and precedence Of
,Ae catholic clergy, and it is well there
lure mat The Catholic laity should be
'.4udlaie1 with the correct methods of
ties. 'ii1it
~ tlfhlnE over the pages Of the first
.olume Of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
we come upon an article entitled "Ad-
.ssses which deals with the correct
manner in which to address ecclesi-
'sles of high rank
-s-.F. we are told. has supplied the
Wv. ITO with precedent in the matter of
,sg'esiastical etiquette, and her meth
as nave been adopted in diplomatic
cr SOCIAL dealings with the Catholic
AT over the world.
are assured that none other than
Gu paper is correct. in writing to a
-'1Le cleric, no matter what his de-
80, ana that the ink should be black
10. 'le2 INK being forbidden. The let
pr-. must be written as our fathers
~, IN inverse order TO that of a
III nfst on the right hand sheet and
Ma. oA the left. The necessity of pro-
ars Tor the due order of the archives
rbi, -oI facility in classification led to
N equation being made.
In use Of the typewriter is allowed
Tho 'gallL q red wax must be used, and
as ze Of the seal must be inversely
5rosl. we Importance of the person adj
b - addressing letter to the pope.
tbar ,i'ellng should be Most Holy Fa-
IA. ana in the body Of the letter
"a j, lloIihess, pronouns being tabOoed
ny ne custom being 10 address him in
~, lhlrd person.
he Re. letter should end. PROSTATE at
hon. el of His Holiness. I have the
prof Il 10 profess myself with the most
hun,tS1 respect, His Holiness most
I,lple servant"
tria. atdlnal in English-speaking. coun-
CarJ;. ~ addressed as His Eminence
or Observation-Disclosures
oicnnlshop is addressed as His