Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-22

giant and ecclesiastical Samson who 1 1 would speak upon The Church and the Medical Profession. F1attering ap- plause greeted Father Keefe as he rose.
 In an eloquent discourse upon his 1 topic Father Keefe spoke in part as | fellews
 We all hold the honorable members of your noble profession in the highest
 esteem When pestilence and disease i spread terror through the community, you are the heroes to whom we look
 for the protection of our very lives. The ordinary regularity of life se es i sential to health and comfort, the dAn- gers of pestilenee and disease, the in clemencies of weather, the bitterness Of base lngTatitude, all are forgotten by the heroic physician whose whole life Is a continual sacrifice for the care
 and comfort of others.
 In all these labers of mercy you are
 almost daily brought ints most inti
 mate relations with the clergy and
 laity of the Roman Catholic church
 In friendly, fair minded spirit let us
 consider some of the striking phases
 of the intimate relationship between
 your profession and the ancient and
 pow erful Catholic church. Represent
 ing as she does the Divine Physician
 Himself and divinely appointed te per petp ate the mission of Him who spent
 Himself going about doing good" the
 church has always zealously taught
 and richly rewarded the practice Of
 corporal as well as spiritual works of
 merIy,
 Enrolled In Hospital Orders.
 Fspal briefs, ediets of ecclesiastical
 coureils and the commands of bishops
 In every age of the church breathe the
 spirit of Pope Innocent III, who in the
 twelfth century founded the great Ro- man hospital santo Sprito, and placed , it under the expert supervision of the renowned Guy de Chauliac often call
 ed Father of Surgery" What wonder
 then that even during the Catholic
 middle ages every town of five thou
 sand, and many of the smaller ones
 all over Christian Europe, beasted of a
 hospital. For the care and prosperity of these countless monuments of mer- . ey the church enrolled great armies of ] her noblest sons and daughters in her 9 heroic hospital orders and inspired 2 and blessed their sacrifices for the ad- Q vancement of the best interests of your l profession.~
 = The glorious story of Catholic hos Q pital decelopment in the old world t continues to go on in the new. Almost a hundred years before the Puritans ! StL lOOt O4t tklOOlu GtOGh AsdIuQilN
 hospitals were fiourishing in Mexico n South America and Canada
 :, Nearly 500 Hospitals.
 We honor the great American mil t lionaires who out of their unlimited . treasure established libraries, schools 0 and hospitals from time to time. Who @ can estimate Americas debt of grati- f tude to the hard working Catholics oi z our country who out of their meager h hard earned wages have, in response tc s the churchs call and practically .un- . aided, built up and maintained almost . five hundred first class Catholic hos q pltals which annually care for half g r million patients of every class ana @ creed all over our glorious republic? s What man in New England labor, e more for the noble cause than Rt. Rev e John Joseph Milan, the Catholic bishoI
 of our diocese, who is today active
 president of f1ourishing hospitals il
 Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport ' Waterbury and Willimantic2 BishoJ r. Nilan's zeal for the best interests O. e the medical profession is the spirit O d every Catholic bishop and priest iron
 New York to San Francisco. and iron d Portland to New Orleans.
 .esl Nc Enemy to Scientific Progress. le Sometimes we are told that tn y church is the enemy of scientific re d search and progress. The history o )t scientific education tells another story l. Side by side with her gorgeous cathe le drals and her grand old monastares le the church in every age and countr. l. has built up and expanded her techni j. cal schools and her universities fo @ the study and teaching of all the phy ], sical sciences. Papal decrees and ec 10 clesiastical favorS and control wer
 essential features in the establishment IS of al the renowned Christian seats O rs learning like Cologne, Padua and Pisa el Salamanca and Louvain, Prague an " Vienna, Montpelier and the Sorbonnt of Oxford and Cambridge, Glasgow an II Aberdeen and Copenhagen, and tn ly countless others.
 lg Modern leaders in scientific educa 70 tional progress may wisely sigh for T. return from our present day shor to snap" courses to the high standard lg of Pope John, who, when founding tn D. medical school of Perugia, commando
 that the professors be all university
 trained experts, and the candidates fo t degrees of medical doctor should. a " in all the other universities of tn day, complete three years of under
 graduate and four years of snoroug ! graduate work. Countless professor ? and students of these great school 2, won the very highest places in the his ssa tory of medical and other scienti1 dU progress without sacrificing the - fidelity to the church.
 io The zeal of the church for scienti1 = educational progress in every age an ' country goes gleriously on in our ow liI a day here in the United States " 2" America. Bishops and priests an II great armies of hely nuns are continu i, ally laboring and sacrificing for th n highest ideals of thorough education I9o Inspired by the glorious achievement T of the past, the church In Amerit , urges and commands her sons all 'S nS daughters la build up and maintai II, and patrenae educational systems an t.c institutions fer the homer and glor ' and progress ef your profession ar <, all the ether sciences which shall lea N mankind through d knowledge ef fl
 wonderful works ef the Almighty A. give glerN te God and peace and hal
 piness to all men.
 gs High in the Ranks. ic- Thousands of loyal sons of Il A church hold high places in the ranl
 of American physicians, are admir-, . and nest dearly loved by every men
 Der of their respective commuuitit
 like our own late lamented Patrick
 Hartman, an ex-president of your &
 ciety,. whose death merited publ