The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17
CATHOLIC CLERGY
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North Alabama Deanery Meets In Semi-Annual
 Session At St. Paups

The semi-annual conference of the
 Catholic clergy of the north Alabama
 deanery convened at St. Paurs rectory
 yesterday afternoon at o'clock After
 the opening prayer the first paper was
 read by Rev. Father Dus of St Cath
 crimes church, Pratt City. He treated
 in 8 scholarly manner the much dis
 brews. He upheld the traditional view
 and with clear cut and convincing ar
 guments proved the authorship, He then gave an analysis of the epistle. His pa per was followed with close attention and evoked from all very favorable com ment. Rev. Father Schmittner, pastor of St. James church, Gadsden had an interesting and instructive essay on The Infa1libility of the Church" He attempted to show the necessity of an infallible teaching body to keep free from admixture of error in every age, the faith once delivered to the saints. He then gave his views of what condi- tions must be fulfilled to have infal- lible declarations. He declared that the Catholic church has. always in every age claimed this infallibility He quoted from scripture. from the teaching of the fathers and from the great eccles- iastical writers of every century to show the existence of this infallibility in the church. He then gave a brief glance at the authority that the sacred congregations have. in the government nf hn 1tvix plained briefly the scope and extent of the decree regarding infallibility that was promulgated at the general coun- cil of the Vatican in the year 1870.
 Rev. Father Shultz of St. Augustine's North Birmingham explained what steps must be taken in accord ance with the teachings of moral the ology to revalidate an invalid marriage. As the marriage laws of the church are to be strictly observed by practical Catholics, his explanations which were in harmony with the recent ecclesiastical decrees, were most timely, and the priests present gave the closest atten- tion to his explanations and elucida- tions.
 Father Coyle read a brief paper on canon law touching the temporalities of the church, explaining how since the church, though mot of this world, is yet in the world" temporalities are needed to have it fulfill the mission given it by the Master, "to preach sal vation to those lying in darkness and in the shadow of death" He explained the dominion and administration of church property as laid down by i'm laws and uSages of the Cath ollie church.
 After the reading of the various pa- pers an informal discussion took place on matters of local interest. In this dis cusion Partners Downs, Canepa, Reilly and OKelly took part. A visitor in the person of the Rev. Thomas J. Eaton of St. Mary's church, Mobile, came to the near the close of the pro- ceedings. He brought the greetings of the south Alabama brethren to the clergy of this district. After prayer the adjourned till next April.
 The following were present on the oc- cation: The Rev. Charles E. Reilly Our Lady Immaculae, Birmingham; the Rev. Otto J. Dus, St. Catherine's church, Pratt City; the Rev. Jerome M. Shultz, St. Augustine's church. North Birming- ham; the Rev. James E. Coyle, St. PauPs church, Birmingham; the Rev. Herman Schmidtner, St. James church, Gads- den; the Rev. John O'Kelly. Our Lady of Sorrows, Birmingham; the Rev. James J. Downs, St. Vincent's hospital, Bir-
 the Rev. John B. Canepa, St. Marks church, East Thomas.