Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-30
VAT|CAN'S ANSWER
To tn. IS UPHELD.
Archbishop Ireland Says Method
lists Offer Insult When Public
Men Visit Italy
CITES SEVERAL INSTANCES
Catholic PreIate Attacks Attitude
of ProteStantS Abroad To-
ward His Own Faith
CITES SEVERAL INSTANCES
Associated Pressl


NEW YORK, June 29.-Responding
to the address of the board of bishops
Of the Methodist Episcopal church is
sued May 16, Archbishop Ireland con-
tributes to the forthcoming issue of
the North American Review an ex-
tended article on the Methodist Epis-
copal church in Italy, reviewing the
statement of the Methodist bishops and
justifying the action of the Vatican in
connection with Colonel Roosevelt.
He quotes extensively from the
writings of Methodist missionaries,
bishops and newspapers in Italy, at
tacking the papacy, and sets forth
that each visit of public man OF
America to the Methodist college in
Rome has been seized on by the local
representatives of the Methodist church
as an occasion for insulting the Vati-
can.
He cites the case of the visits of
former Mayor Seth Low and Mr.. Fair
banks.
He claims the Methodist preachers
in italy are paid higher salaries than
those Of other denominations: that
their work is confined chiefly in prose-
lyting. and that the results have not
been at all commensurate with the cost
of the work.
Respecting the Roosevelt incident, he
says:
"As far as precedents gave lessons,
the Vatican could not but fear that
pressure might be brought to bear on
him to induce him to lend his favor
to the institution Of via venti settem-
bre. With the purposes and wiles of
the institute, Mr.. Roosevelt, it was
thought, was probably not conversant.
So far he has had no occasion to run
up against its ruling spirit, Rev. Mr..
Triple.
VATICAN'S HONOR SUPREME
'The honor of the Vatican was SUI
preme, as it should be, in the mind
Of the cardinal, it must at all hazards
be safeguarded; neither must obstacles
intervene that should keep the doors
of the Vatican from being thrown wide
open in greeting Mr.. Roosevelt.
$50 in reply to Mr.. Roosevelt's re-
quest for an audience a message was
sent, courteous and confidential, acced-
ing, of course. to the unpleasant situa-
ton to which the Vatican should be
reduced were there the least peril of
what had happened to Mr.. Low and to
Mr.. Fairbanks, by any miscalculation
or oversight, would happen to him.
The more illustrious the visitor, the
more was he to be put on his guard.
Unfortunately, the message of the
Vatican reached Mr.. Roosevelt under
cover of comments from the hands of
the American ambassador to the Quiri-
nal, and was read in the glare of those
comments. Certainly the situation was
perplexing. With the comments of Mr..
Leishman under his eyes, the answer
given by Mr.. Roosevelt is not a surprise
to Americans.
"The attitude of the Vatican toward
the Methodist mission must not be 9TH
er than 1t is. II in this attitude there
is intolerance, it is the intolerance of
vile insult and treacherous fraud. With
persons differing from 1t is creed, hon
orable in their sincerity and belief, and
we'll hammered in their bearing, the
Vatican is always most tolerant, most
courteous. But as was the Savior him
self, so is the Vatican-severe and in
tolerant when confronted by the Phar-
isee and the money changer of the
temple"