Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1911-12-02
ENGLISH
Recognize and Pay High Trib-
ute to BaltimOre's Grand
Cardinal.
Leading Catholic Organ Says
His Influence Is World
Wide.
Also Recalls His Words of Com
fort When Manning
Died.
He IS BELOVED in BRITAIN

In the current issue the London
Tablet, the leading Roman Catholic
organ in England, devotes an edi-
torial article to Cardinal Gibbons and
pays a high tribute to the American
Cardinal. 1t mentions the celebra-
ton in America of the fiftieth ami
versary of his priesthood and the
twenty-fifth of his Cardinalate, and
remarks that sit will be difficult for
anything to happen to His Eminence
now that will not be of the nature of
climax already anticipated. High
| as he is in his ecclesiastical station,
he has mounted to far more extraor-
binary heights in the good will of his
fellow-citizens and the affections of
his flock"
''In a rapid age" the Tablet goes
on to say, Cardinal Gibbons has
been slow to move, slow to speak; in
trivial time has been wholly seri-
Gus; and in a land which witnesses
the triumph of materialism he has
stood for the things that contradict,
in so many of their aspects, the
strength and wisdom and wealth of
the modern world"
After referring to various phases
Of the Cardinals career the Tablet
says: There is about His Eminence
touch of the unexpected that has
undoubtedly done much to endear
him. Precedents from the Middle
Ages have not always appealed to
him as binding, and he has done and
said in his day things which seemed
quite uncovenanted in the eyes OF
those to whom custom Is final law
and great prelate little more than
a Right Reverend Attenuation. Some
body who, seeing the Cardinal for
the first time, saw him put his penny
In the slot and seat himself in the
Weighing chair in London UNDER
ground railway station, exclaimed
that 1t must be the first time Prince
Of the church occupied such throne.
Ferhapsl But the Cardinal, who
then learned his own weight, has
made 1t felt in another sense all the
world over.
"He has preached to decadent
France a lesson In church freedom.
He has recognized the human right
Of a brotherhood such as that ex-
pressed by the great association of
the Knights of Columbus, and has
fought triumphantly their battle at
the Vatican. other words spoken
aptly at a critical moment come to
mind, words of solace to Archbishop
Keane when he withdrew from the
Rectorship of the Catholic University
at Washington: Your noble soul has
grown from your noble understand
ing; you are masterpiece of your own
training words of brotherly warn
Inc to Paris: American priests would |
be\delighted to help the French |
church TO shake off its sloth-the |
sound OF bells is no longer sufficient
10 draw people to church. words OF
brotherly welcome
10 all corners to a Parliament of Re-
ligions from whose deliberations
there resulted, he thought. "a clearer
of religion as meaning
the love and service OF man, greater
liberty OF thought and wider toler-
lnce of opinion being inculcated, and
the ideas OF the Fatherhood OF God
md the Brotherhood OF Man being
learned more thoroughly than ever
before And We remember reading
he exceedingly American remarks OF
/ paper which reported how this
Prince OF the church, when a young
PRIEST. once stepped into the pulpit
u a Baptist chapel In the absence OF
Is minister and conducted a gospel
ervice 10 the edlfication OF all those
assembled. aNfa ISL
''Are not all peoples and all ton
,ues gathered within the blessed
nifty OF Peter. many wearers of one
red among the restf Very close, at
ny rate, are the bonds OF sympathy
'etween all Cardinals OF English
peech, very close now and In the
'ast, and closer yet to be IN the
ifficult days OF the church that are
hortly 10 come. From Cardinal
as We we'll remember, came
he word OF comfort to the widowed {
hurch when Manning died--Man- .
ing. the mediator, standing be- Q
ween need and greed with hands OF {
ntreaty, pleading for the rights OF '
ock laborers, the champion of Chris
IAN education for the waif OF the
lums. the steadfast friend OF Ire
md And as mediator. too, at the
aticau Council IA the Cardinal of