Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
ELATELAUDS
NEW ARCHBISHOP
Catholic University Rector
Tells of Fitness of Head
of Diocese
SERMON AT CATHEDRAL
Hishop Shahan Predicts War
Will Result in Blessings
to Mankind

Fitness of Archbishop Dougherty. by
reason Of his mental and spiritual quail
incations and his long experience in &C.
cleefastic offices. for his duties as head
) OF the Catholic diocese of Philadelphia
and the part members of the faith are
playing In the war against the Germans
wer6 outstanding features of the sermon
by Bishop Thomas J. Shahan. rector OF
the Catholic University of Washington
at the solemn ceremonies at the Cathe-
cral today.
In his reference to the Kaiser Bishor
Shahan styled the Emperor the modern
Caesar. In unstinted language Bishor
Shahan condemned the atrocities Of the
Bcche and his methods of warfare.
He declared that perhaps out of the
3 world conflict would come clearer visions
Of the proper relationship of men and
nations, a greater religious conviction
and new governments based on the
model OF the United States.
Bishop Shahans sermon in part fol-
lowe.
Your eminence, most reverend, right
reverend and reverend fathers and dear
" beloved brethren
This noble Cathedral. fresh from
the hands of a hundred artists. has
never offered a more convincing argu-
ment OF Catholic truth and unity than
this multitude of the faithful. gathered
here to share in the solemn ceremonies
by which the apostolic power and right,
ONCE and responsibility are transferred
from him who sleeps peacefully beneath
US to him who inherits these honors
and burdens as the living representative
of-5esGs Christ in this diocese.
with quiet dignity Peter has spoken
by the mouth of Benedict, and the Cath
olic clergy and people of Philadelphia
range themselves with Joy and hope
about their new pastor and pledge to
him loving obedience and generous CO.
operation.
100 Years of Progress
More than 100 years ago this see
was cut off from the parent diocese of
Baltimore, and your first bishop. ap-
pointed by the Holy See, was Consecrated
by Archbishop Carroll Today, in the
name of Pope Benedict, the successor
OF Archbishop Carroll conducts to his
sat of authority your new archbishop
\ and thus establishes another tie OF
affection and esteem between these great
centers of American Catholic life.
One hundred years ago no one would
have dared TO foretell the progress oi
the church of Philadelphia during the
nineteenth century; but in that time
Wings to its present state, when more
than 100000 Catholics, nearly S0'
priests, more than 800 churches ant
some 10000 children in Catholic schools
represent the holy charge which Is thi
day confided to the faith and the yea
OF Archbishop Dougherty.
wherein now lies the secret of thi
unbroken religious prosperity. and (
whst power is Il ewing that through
all the vicissitudes of the most eventfu
Of centuries this Church of Philadelphia
should have held so closely togetheI
from decade to decade, conserving al
that was good in the passing years ant
constantly blending with it the virtue!
and the merits and the sacrifices of th'
present day?
"It was the office, the presence, the
activity of their bishop. He was n
once the symbol, the guarantee and tht
connecting link of that holy unity o
the. Catholic Church which bound hin
and his people to the vicar of Jesu
Christ. and through him to the apos
toIic founders of the Christian religion.
Preparation for Omce
'sYour new Archbishop, dearly believe
brethren, comes to you with every sig
of providential choice. A native so'
of this diocese and this State, he wa
al an early age formed for the priest
hood by wise and devoted teachers a
Montreal and your own Overbrook, an
went thence to Rome, where in tn
vene' able American College he in
bibed ecclesiastical learning of tn
highest kind and acquired the virtue
Of The priesthood amid the monument
and the memories of the Apostle
themselves. For years he aided in tn
formation of your own priesthood a
~ rt~kfv che in a M
esan Seminary, and when the Holy Sc
named him to a difficult and remote Sc
In the Philippine Islands he acccpte
with modest obedience this hard exi
from his native land and from all tha
men hold dear.
s.Once more the voice of Peter sounde
in his ears this time bidding him II
turn and fill the place vacated by II
late sanity Bishop of Buffalo. His labo
In this great center of American III
won him at once the confidence and Il
hearty cooperation of its clergy and i
people al-o of the non-Cathol!c citizen
and the entire community looked 10
ward to many years of his paternal ar
progressive administration.
Buffalo Diocese Proud
s-rhe great Church of Buffalo rejoic'
that at it's head stood one who had
him all the elements of leadership, T
liElOuS ana palrlotlc, anu o' VIII
learning. experience and wisdom 1t cou
rely with pride and security. Divil
Providence. however, had other desigr
and thus your new pastor comes ba
to his own people and his own state
clrcuitous way indeed, but honor
At every step by universal esteem al
& by profound regret that his father
s. rule was not an abiding one. Sure
= II Is not too much to say that in &
history of our American episcopa
there Is no prelate who has more
boriously earned his way to so high
seat, while the widely sundered peoI
10 whom he ministered with such &c
And unseifsh love hold him forever
benediction.
"Archbishop Dougherty enters upon
unsurpassed inheritance of religio
proeperity, on golden years of peace a
unity, of charity and harmony. II
the peak, as Il were, of all the religio
and ecclesia stical labors and efforts
those devoted generations which ha
y none before and have entered. We tru
Into the reward of their sacrifices
'.But in the civil order what a stup'
6ouk, difference! One hundred years a
< N4Doieon Bonaparte was expiating
&. the malarial rock of st. Helena
titanic ambition to conquer the wo
q s and enslave II forever Under the W
W raced in a life and death conflict W
hln suecessor in the terrible order
:. "a (1nssars the head of new autocra
which combines every horror of Z
dISxai feudalism with every progr
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