The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
CATHOLICS MEET
 AT NEW ORLEANS

New Orleans, November 13-Attended
 by many dignitaries and prominent lay
 men of the church from all parts of
 the country, the opening of the annual
 convention of the American FederatioH
 of Catholic societies here today was sig
 nalized by notable service in St Louis cathedral this morning, the laying of
 the cornerstone of Marquette university
 this afternoon 3hd a mass meeting to-
 night.
 With Monsignor Faleonio apostolic del- egate, present. pontifical mass was eel ebrated at 10 o clock by the Right Rev. | Nicholas A. Gallagher. Bishop Of Gal veston. Bishop John B. Morris of the diocese of Little Rock, delivered the | sermon. The ceremonies incident to the laying of the cornerstone of Marquette
 university, formerly known as Jesuits college, were presided over by Arch bishop Blenk of New Orleans. Among those who made addresses was Bishop McFaul of Trenton, N. J.
 The appointment of committees was the feature of a short session at the convention hall held earlier in the aft erEoon.
 The convention was formally welcomed to the state and the city tonight by Governor Sanders and Mayor Behrman of New Orleans and by Charles I. Den echau, president of the state federation. Edward Feeney, president of the Amer ican federation, responded. Tonights meeting was concluded with an address and papal benediction by Apostolic Del egate Falconio.
 At the laying Of the Marquette corner stone in the afternoon announcement was made that the name of President Iaft had been carved upon 1t and feature or the occasion was placing in the stone Of letter from the President expressing his hope for further progress of the uni- versity and appreciation of having his name so inscribed. In his address Bish- op McFaul took occasion to attack what he termed ''atheistlc and irreligious doc trines propogated In certain non-Catholic universities and colleges" Recalling an address which he delivered some time ago at St. Francis Xavier's college In New York city, and bitter attacks which he stated were made upon him as a re- suit of views expressed then, he declared that he had considered it his duty to sound a note of warning to both Cath olics and non-Catholics. Bishop McFaul said:
 T maintained that some of the pro- fessors taught that there was no God, at least as Christians conceived of Him; that 1nTlSl was IlOL ulNlnes lildl AAc l cfi Commandments were fossilized; that there was no real distinction between right and wrong; that morality was only a matter of conventionality; that the Bible was myth; that there was no such thing as the sancity of marriage. Not withstanding the furore created by these statements, none of these accused pro- fessors, whose names and quotations from whose writings had been published, has up to the present time dared to con- tradict anything I alleged against them. On the contrary, they have frequently since verified what I have advanced against them by their public addresses. Notably among the rest, the famous ex- president of Harvard university, Dr. Eliot, confirmed my position. In a long address which was afterward published in periodical form, he proved to the whole American people my thesis by hIs summary of the jelly fish religion of the future, which was merely crude and vague restatement of naturalism and organism