The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-08-29
POPE Plus TENTH.

fold Of which he was Supreme
Pastor, are unanimous in saying
that the world has lost it's most
Christ-like man. And those Of his
faithful children, whose privilege
it was to stand in his presence,
to feel the gaze of those kindly
eyes that are closed in death,
realized anew the meaning of the
promise of Christ: 81 will be with
you all days" For Plus X, like
the great and holy Pontiffs Of the
past, could truly say with St.
Paul: 81 live now, not I, but
Christ liveth in me. - Truly he
was a man Of God and God was
with him.
When he became Pope he pro-
claimed his purpose to restore all
things in Christ. History will tell
how nobly he labored to fulfil that
noble promise. To a world sick
unto death with the manifold
diseases of unbelief and of passion
he spoke the words Of healing and
of peace; and the world is paying
dearly for it's refusal to listen to
him.
Historians will tell Of his won
derful courage and energy, his
practical sagacity and tact and
common-sense. Already his eager
ness to bring the little ones to
Christ in the Sacrament of His
Love, to induce us all to partake
of the daily Bread from heaven,
has won for him the title Of the
Pope of the Blessed Sacrament.
His marvellous instinct for what
is practical and useful, what may
be called his inspired common
sense, together with his brotherly
sympathy with the rank and file
of the working clergy, has led the
pastors everywhere to claim him
as their own Pope. This aspect of
his character was evidenced by
his courageous reform of the
Breviary, bringing that sublime
Office back to it's pristine beauty
and simplicity and securing that
again in our days and for all time
to come, the Church through her
ministers, will each week recite
the whole sublime Psalter, which
bore testimony to Christ long ages
before the Incarnation, and which
supplied to Christ the last words
of prayer and resignation He
spoke on the Cross. The same re-
turn to the sublime simplicity OF
the Church s heroic age was the
aim of the reform Of Church music.
From the great and sainted Greg
DRY, the great and sanity Plus re-
ceived and gave back to the
Church those sublime chants in
honor and in celebration of the
Sacrifice and the Sacrament of the
love and power of the lncar-
nate God.
AS a fatherly counsellor to the
working clergy in all the sacred
offices of preaching, catechising
and administering the sacraments,
as well as in the sacred privacy of
the solemn struggle for personal
holiness, Pope Plus x has spoken
words that will remain as classics,
side by side with the pastoral
writings of st. Gregory the Great
and Of st. John Chrysostom.
It would be a serious mistake,
however, and most non-Catholics
seem to have fallen into it, to
imagine that Plus x was a wise
and sanity pastor and Prince
of Pastors, and nothing more. His
bold stand against atheistic
French politicians who would
make the Church in France a help
less tool in their hands displays a
character of uncompromising 10y
atty to principle akin to those OF
Hildebrand and Thomas A Beckett.
And perhaps the bravest deed OF
his brave life was his challenge to
the whole sinister spirit of modern
degeneracy, and the exorcism by
which he drove it from the sacred
precincts of the Church, in his
mastery encyclical on Modernism.
That encyclical, bracing as the
the pure free air of the mountains
that dispels unhealthy mists and
exhalations from the fostering
swamp, inspiring as the trumpet
call to battle, reused and recalled
all men of goodwill to the old
standard, to the old watchwords,
to the Gospel of Christ, the word
of God that will never pass away.
The sheer human strength and
manliness of its appeal for sin
cerity and clearness of thought
and of speech has not failed to win
the unaffected admiration of men
whose lack Of the true gift OF