The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-20

n fumes Of power save him scope
% proclaim to the world that which
IA had found good for the dioceses ovei
which he had ruled. II was proclnma-
ZION 10 tho very world. In the ancient
phrase "urbi ct orbi" the city is now
h,r a bitter memory--the world re-
mains. Despite tho centuries old scis-
s.on OF the Oriental rite. despite the
,st,r move Of protest. Rome still is head
d Gods greatest Kingdom upon this
.syth-e spiritual Kingdom When a
pope speaks his audience IL the world,
even TO the isles of the most distant
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Crowned on November q
m Mantua Bishop Serto was found
rtudying with his seminarians the
Crseorian chant. In Venice the Pa
,rarch enriched his studies with the
rsv,rent art Of Perosi. whom he sent
before him on the road to Rome. Tho
srst announcement of Plus Y. was to
,he world on this theme. He was
,coxned August Q, another Q to add to
the record; as early as November 20 of
IN. same year he issued his Motu
proprio reforming the music OF the
ritual and restricting It to the use Of
the authentic Gresorian chant.
Nsxt came his efforts toward simpli-
nnation In one direction and the cor
,.et,on OF error in another. These are
not things which suggest themselves
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whose very existence most depends on
ronpl,cation; they are clearly the pol
,cv Of a Pope who had worked his way
through various service as a good ad-
,,inistrator. Thus Il is correct TO set
"a tho Popes own credit the establish
mint In 1904 Of the college whose duty
4, should be to codify the canon law
ana the creation OF tho Biblical Insti-
futs and It's commission to the learned
Society Of Jesus in order that the true
tsut OF the Bible might be recovered.
These projects, in themselves great,
wore but initial In his greater plan, al
y~yp working for reform, for the clear
Inn away Of the accretion of Ill usage
and the restoration OF sound doctrine.
In the brief summation Of his Mantua
epdscopate mention has been made of
two grave causes OF the disorder with
which he had there to contend. OF the
spread OF socialism something IL 10 be
q. i,ater The other cause lay in the
inability Of the priesthood to resist IN
themselves or TO combat in others the
,insound doctrine. AZ the first step
toward tho treatment OF this problem
he attacked the methods OF diocesan
sem!naries. He insisted THAT each do
cese which II must be remembered IL
the administrative unit OF the Church.
should support It's seminary for the
priesthood, but with this most impor-
tant proviso, that weak dioceses should
not assume TO maintain seminaries
which must essentially be weak. but
must Join themselves TO their more
iour!shng neighbors in the support OF
regional Summaries. Thus he provided
that the means OF education should be
strong or should not exist at ALL
Great Eneycltcais Issued.
Thus the way was cleared for the de-
cree "Lamentabili' in 1907, at once To
receive the popular designation or the
syllabus of Plus X. in which sixty
five propositions were condemned, that
number OF errors which were rife In
the instruction OF the candidates for
holy orders. September of the same
year this was followed by the great
encyclical "Pascendi" in which Modern
Ism was reproved. Here is ground for
endless debate, II involves the whole
theory and practice OF pedagogics. But
tho debate must be wholly external 10
the Church: within its confines, IN a
great organization founded upon reve-
lation and the principles OF the fathers
this great order cannot be debated
over against the idea OF a republic OF
letters, which may DEGENERATE into
anarchy. is set the authority of the
Church through its head to determine
that which is sound doctrine and that
which Is error. But in its reversion &c
firm ground It represents in the act OF
Plus X. the fruition OF the restricted
hopes Of the Bishop of Mantua.
The pontihcate Just ended shows nc
PRONUNCIATION OF new doctrine; It Is
filled with the effort to amend error and
TO revert to purer belief and practice
In such a complex OF functions It IL
impossible 10 sesregate the spiritual
and tho material. In Italy the early
ysau OF the reign Of Plus x were Allied
with conscientious efforts to cope with
the spread OF socialism. which had
forced itself upon Bishop Sarto's at
tention in Mantua. II the Socialists
had been wholly communicates the
spiritual method OF graduating error
might have proved sufficient. But the
principle involved was one which hao
wider range over the whole sphere OF
mans social activity. Politics entered
Into II even more than did religion, thus