The Irish standard., 1909-02-06
Rev. William OBrien Pardow S. J, Who Recently Passed
Away, Was Most Gifted Man, intellectually
. and Oritorcally.
HIS SANITY LIFE WAS AN INSPIRATION TO ALL
Incompatible in Argument and Clarity of Statement
Modernism, the Most Recent Heresy, Was Ably
Combatted by the Great Jesuit.

Jesuit Novices at St. Andrews on-the-
Hudson, was ill, and Father Pe-dow
was elected in his place. Only III. ax-
Provincial is qualified for this su-
preme office, the novices of st. An
drew's being in their last year of the
Jesuit probation, the most crucial of
| tie whole exigent clniidacy. Strange
ly and sadly enough. 'it secular press
, had misconstrued ..n1 misreores ,:tcl
; this crowning honor, the highest that
his grand and appreciative Order
could bestow upon it's worthy mem-
ber, as reproach to the modernism"
Of Father Pardow.
| In truth, the Church leads it's chill
d1en in progressive ways. and every
unprejudiced historian and scholar
! halls her as the one srue Light o: the
World" Intellectually as we'll as spir-
I.itually. Bigotry AMI :uvincible ,gnor-
ance alons 'rspf6ache,; J: or as !ini;Y,, cal
to science ana ait,1:,,rasi prosrexsif.,.
AS pastor OF st. 1gnatius Loso'a's s,
Park avenue and East s4th street, ia /.
ther Pardow,, succe sling the late F:,-
tier McKinnon of be;oYfd :. memory,
did much for the ':-urch and its
schools. AS a preacher, he attracted
congregations unparalleled for '.t.h
| lectual and social cu1:nence, and con-
verts studded his pries.ly way, as the
scientific or higher .rrellectual class
Yet the democracy If Christ and the
simplicity Of a child were the cha &c
teristics of Father Pa: dow, by birth
and breeding patric.an, and by per.
sonal talents one of tie llustrio3s of
the world.
| OF recent years Father .Pardow was
the exponent of the attitude or The
Church in regard to all modern aucs-
rash and unintelligen. the term. of
"modernist." In truth he was con-
servative, as all loyalists are. I;r' al
and great of mind, sympathetic nf
keart as he was, he was "a Tartar" on
grounds of religion or moral principle.
No compromise, no concession was
comprehensive to hl1'. Policy and
expediency were pleas that did nor oh
tain with him. Right was his sta"5-
ard, and speciousness was futile in
comparison with it. Morally al in
the religious sense, Father Par,1cw
was hero.
The most recent heresy ably COM
batted by Father Pa:t;ow was Mod
ernism." This was - subject which
by its name alone challenged the at
tention of the on-Catholic INTEL actual
world, and drew to the Church Pro-
testant congregation. Father Parslcw
was Incompatible II argument and
clarity Of statement, and many brill
liant minds attracted hy the subject.
We're brought by him to the light Of
Faith.
Reverence for Jesrs in the B essel-
Sacrament, and the devotion to the
Sacred Heart Of Jesus were: his spir-
itual passions, and :hence cam. tho
gentleness that tempered his sternness
and the sweetness and sympathy that
tndeared him to all.
Father Pardow was Christ like
character and was recognized as such
ty the world-he was strong yet kind
stern yet consids ate, ascetic. per-
eonally, yet indulgent I" others. In the
pulpit he was a lio1, fighting :l:-csy
and error with majestic courage Of re-
ligious conviction and intellectual:
strength-bdt in the confessional ana
in private life, lamb of tenderness.
healing wounded soa's, upliftin: the
fallen, and inspiring with hope the de-
spairing. Even the most bigoted and
unfriendly press notices have acknowl-
edged Father Pardow's personal i'm
pressiveness, admitting that the soul
aid intellect of the maj stood out from
bis. frail physique. challenging. the