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A Fair Minded PreIate.


AS is usually the case in ouarrels.
there is right and wrong on both sides
IN the present controversy between
Church and State in France. In the
many efforts which have been made 10
awaken the sympathies OF the Ameri
can public in behalf of the Roman
Catholic church in France, the latter
has been presented as ale hind, and
the French civil government as all
panther. In contrast to these one-sided
views it is refreshing to read the state.
ments regarding the French situation
recently made by Archbishop Ireland.
/ The archbishop is fully alive to the
hardships and injustices which the
French Church and clergy are now
suffering. Thousands of devoted
priests have, at a stroke, been turned
out of house and home, and have BEEN
deprived of their accustomed stipends.
The archbishop denounces the appro-
priation of ecclesiastical property by
! the State as an act of black handed
confiscation. But while denouncing
these acts of the State, he points out
| that many ofthe clergy must largely
thank their own wrong headedness for
their present sufferings. The French
clergy, for the most part, have clung
to the traditions of Bourbonism, and
from the very inception of the Third
Republic have dreamed and schemed
for a restoration of the Legitirnist
dynasty. Leo XIII, who was one Of
the greatest statesmen of his time,
recognizing the right of the French
people to maintain whatever forra Of
government to them seemed good, is.
sued letter to the French clergy some
twenty years ago, advising them TO
accept the Republic as an established
fact and to give it their loyal support.
Archbishop Ireland says that if all the
French clergy had only needed this
wise counsel from Pope Leo, they
would have saved themselves from tais
present unpleasant situation. 1t is re.
assuring to know that Archbishop Ire.
lands statement has met with the
hearty approval of Pope Plus X.
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The Course is two years, but may te
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A special short course is provided for
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The object of those who are provid-
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Nearly 200 Free Scholarships will be
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A class is forming to begin April
30th, 1907
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readers of this paper who desire TO
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