Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1914-09-09

| Inc UioceSes had been In most |
deplorable condition because OF the |
long conflict between church and |
| state.
| There was evidence OF miserable |
conditions existing in the Italian emf |
grants. They have little or no instruc- |
| tlon In their religion and paid no at |
tention to it in this country, on the |
supposition that the Catholic religion |
did not exist here.
The pope pursued this matter to the |
proper outcome He filled up vacant |
sees. stirred up comfortable bishops. |
and ordered the teaching OF catechism |
all over the world. He aimed chiefly |
at Italy. In a word, he deserted di
plomacy for the instruction and organ !
ization OF the people He gave up
governments 10 look after the lost !
sheep OF the household
Disappointed diplomats then walled |
about his timidity. But the wailing |
had no effect on the noble hearted. |
simple man who was the head OF the
church.
When the trouble between the
| church and state broke out in France
and the concordat was dropped, the
world looked to the pope. specializing
| what course he would take. What he
did seemed to be the only right thing
according to the American idea He
| ignored the nation.
| Before Pope Plus had been on the
throne three years he evidenced that
| young men who dreamed OF the career
| OF courtier in Rome were going to
me disappointed. The pope wanted
bishops for the different sees, and the
way for young diplomats to promotion.
it was soon apparent. was through the
tiresome but wholesome office of gov
erning bishop
one great reform Pope Plus accom-.
| plished. and it promises to be ever re-
membered in history He proved that
| diplomacy in church matters is a
thing of little Importance compared
with the direct teaching and preaching
of the gospel to the poor
Opposed to Womans Suffrage.
Compared with the policies OF his
! predecessors of recent times, the lean
ing OF Pope Plus X. have been held
to be ultra-orthodoX in purely ecclesi-
astical principles and ultra-conserva-
| tive in temporal relations.
An instance of his well-known I'M
| compromising attitude against ad-
vanced tendencies was afforded in his
opposition to woman suffrage as voiced
| by the pope upon the occasion OF his
reception of a delegation of Italian
! Catholic ladies.
Woman can never be mans equal
he told his fair visitors and cannot.
therefore, enjoy equal rights. Few
! women would ever desire to legslate. !
and those who did would be classed |
as eccentrcs. Scripture. and espe-
cially the three Epistles of St Paul |
emphasizes woman's dependence on
| man"
His now famous Apostolic consti- |
tuition was considered as embodying
tie most sweeping reform ever at
tempted by Roman pontiff since the |
celebrated council OF Trent. In the |
years from 1916 to 1863, in that II dis |
missed the entire congregation of the !
! council. committee of cardinals !
| charged with the Interpretation of (
the council Trent and placed all affairs .
in the hands OF separate tribunals and |
courts Of appeal
By virtue OF one of his documents.
known as the "Sapienu Consillio." the |
congre composing the Roman Curia !
| OF the Catholic church have been com
! pletely reformed and the American !
! hierarchy has been accorded a recog- !
nized voice in the government OF the !
! church. In fact. all Catholics outside /
Italy have been granted new po-
litical standing by the order here |
under 200 bishops, $4,000 priests and .
! 3O,O0O,000 Catholic laymen in the Eng |
| lish speaking countries will have their (
affairs examined and passed upon ac-
cording to the general law OF the |
church and by ten different congre-
cations. instead OF one. as heretofore |
Pope Plus Was Man of Peace.
Another reform was that effected /
by the papal bull requiring the return
OF sacred music in use by the Roman
! Catholic churches throughout tho
| world to its austere and suave purity. .
! And still another bore upon the re.
vision Of the catechism. a move dear
| TO the heart of the late Leo XII.
whereby instruction I'm the catecbisn,
Is no longer regarded. as I'm years
/ past. the adjunct to a basicallv rel
! gious education but is now held 10
/ replace everything mother. the
schoolmaster. the general mental en-
| virOnment
| Pope Plus was in every respect a
/ man Of peace. and the clerical trou.
| bles in Spain and Portugal during the
| latter years Of his life greatly az.
/ fected his health. When Spain and
! Portugal, following the lead OF France
/ broke away from the church. he re.
/ fused to take any decisive action
/ against them
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