The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19
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 perfume Circumstances
GOOD ROADS IN ROME
National and Local Governments Widening and Narrowing Boule- vards-Royal Couple Not at
 the Feast of Venice
Ky CLEMENT J. BARRETT

l Rome May 1S.-fSpecial.) )-The cor
 dial reception accorded Monsignor Bon
 zano in the United States was very
 clerical and lay friends in Rome. Arch bishop Bonzanos commands much infiu-
 ence at the court of the Vatican. He is regarded here as one of the most nota- ble .ecc1esiastics outside the limited cir cle of the College of Cardinals, to mem bership in which he may. and unques- tionably does. aspire.
 The other day, in the beautiful nave of the Church of St John Letran 1 met an old friend of mine who is now
 one of the resident domestic prelates
 of the Pope. and who takes a great interest in the affairs of the church in the United States.a which he visited a number of years ago as a missionary father of one of the great orders of preachers and teachers. He told me
 that it Is now absolutely settled as a
 definite part of Vatican policy that vacancies at the Washington delegation
 shall only be filled by priests dignis-
 sinus forpthe scarlet. so that is to say
 the envoy of the Pope at the capital of | the United States may reasonably ex- pect to receive the hat If vacancy oc- CUTS about the timetof his return to the Eternal City and the church is without
 resident prince who has had personal experienced of the work being done by the increasingly numerous and pow erful archdiocesses and diocesses fin | A baRinS This mission at Washington under the
 most opportune circumstances He is
 dealing with President who is per sonally familiar with papal affairs lwho has grappled successfully with the Important church problems which grew out of the Spanish American war, and who has shown very friendly disposi- | tion towards the successor of Peter both Leo XIII and the present peaceful Plus. He has also good working opening through which to demonstrate his zeal and capacity. The church In the Philippines is presenting new prob Items which must be deftly handled, both at Manila, the metropolitan see of IJrdameta, and at Washington. Arch bishop Bonzano has practically free hand in these matters and will deal
 with them according to his best 1udg- ment.
 Which reminds me that another American prelate is spoken Of very
 strongly as likely to add to the humber
 of Americans now in the Sacred college. The death of the great Australian card inal, Moran, left a vacancy in the rep resentation of the church of the south | ern Pacific. Archbishop Jeremiah Harty of Manila who was formerly St. Louis
 Mo, parish priest, and who IS Tn every respect worthy of the highest honol l as,,,,uffc.t1 cii,i Jestew, is regarded hser' as first In the line IS. conslderauo' when the next consstory Is held. Th' Franciscans, who are very powerIu here and throughout the Cathoi'
 world, will support the name oI Mohsls Il. | nor Harty. So. too it is understood vii Cardinal Rampolla, whom Pope Piu delights to please. remembering hoy
 nearly the great leader of the Black party, as it Is called. came to being th