Western World, The (Newspaper) - December 12, 1918, Des Moines, Iowa VOL XV MONASTERY OF MONTE CASSINO 1400 Years A Commanding of Power Majesty and Glory of tke Church hours by ml from Rome on tho line to Naples brings j you to the railway station of Monte A drive of a half hour up tho winding road brings you to the here you are at tbe famous shrine of tbe order of S edict where the Patriarch of Western UPS burled and where his sister St by 1 side The glorious panorama from t mount is in Itself sufficient to rep the journey And southward es Campania broad fertile level trie spot un which Haiin took a long nnd res Partner down lies the city of its is bay with rearing Its head beside It Uk Homo grhn sentinel with Pompe and all tlie of dea for Vineyards woods a groves stretch out at your feet for hundred miles around And If th tlay a clear and your sharp you can sco the dome of S Peter towering over everything In Nearer lo the mount you gaze at th castta n which S Thomas Aquina was born and on that In which bJ family imprisoned him with a view ti preventing him from becoming i friar IHU U Is not for tho sake ot tin panorama vast and though it IB that you are to th monastery of Monto Four teen years of ecclesiastics history cover Ue holy mount com with that day when S Ben edict arrived from and chose this place for the greatest of nil nil foundations Tlie monastery is E own in Itself with its own Ordinary the Abbot with Its ninny ls crypts itri spacious churches smli ery its schools of Art In all its forma workshops farmyards etc Laborare et orate is a followed all these centuries iby the cons or Henedict Well Indeed the ate the Tenth say ir Apostolic letter to the Abbot ot Monte Cassino the lit Rev O S B on the occasion of of the crypt In That monastery the tions of barbarism the overthrow of public I n slit ul Ions In tern nl discord revolt massacres md pitiless svars every nut It offered nn asylum to pence a tsure refuse ti religion and to the Pine In lhat place the light of knowledge through the work of pious monks who In the that lay thick on every side continued to shine upon the On thai the venerable sanctity of tlu Luv mid human was guarded amUl the fearful In which with destructive violence ev inly ihal which ID thn monks of Mou let his lory time nud of life tell iss lolls us alto HUH fie of Mon Casino fitted fur vea history of the lhat three snna of lhat mo astery from tin i tt cloister to lhr supreme dignity of he Papacy were numbered n our p re ilo seed so re under the of Stephen IN Victor III Lives of great men all remind We can our lives sublimes And departing leave behind us Footprints on tho sands of time And in no less a notoriety than Ernest came to the mount What did the future free thinker write His inscription IE Unum eat Maria op timam parten But more appropriate for the writer is the volume of admiration which tbe hand of William Ewart Glad stone indited iu a single word And Newman wrote on leaving tlie monastery in September G words Which what a to the Order of H Benedict O Montis unde Anglia nostra olim Calh oil cats doctrinae rivos pro jam ex in The Inscription Left in tho book liy another great bishop loup is not less striking 15 February 1850 Sancte Eene genua robera dJr Jc Ecce Deus vest en It 5s with lively interest that which A P indited on leaving Monte April IS vous etes raiment les fils de Saint Benolt qui un Jour sous votre tolt Y d une sainte alliance le savior mod erne ct la Et des jours Quo le pour Hut in one way oven with more In rest ono looks to see what slon stay In Monte left Oregon fus tlie historian 1 his talents to fullest ex cut to the Vatican October IS 1859 jo rev ins di dopo aver tempo In In Monte ol sentiment dl Cardinal Von paid a grand tribute to Monte September 26 Sion t lo DKS MOINES IOWA THURSDAY 12 OUR WEEKLY ROME LETTER The League of Christ Ancient City of Trent Liberty at Plea see Pope Special Rome Correspondence Homo Commenting on the project of n French of founding a League of Jesus Christ to bring lifick Christian or socalled Christian society lo the practice of religion and of antics Billet Whose elevation from his In lie Gregorian University Ho die to tbo glory of thp Unman purple was due to greatest theologian gives his views i of Paris on the actual state of society The great Jesuit Cardinal In os not mince mailers la not a few Paris of thQ world Impiety immoral ity and are tlie order ot the an order that leads to ruin spiritual and temporal of Individuals families whole tries he di ine law lay m tills mount camo to this of dear country always With flood reason than dh tho Ho man concede great honors o lhat well hermitage of and had lot nt heart and In solemn doc with liberality in favor ana privileges Jrom remote times to our own days were desirous of attesting In n manner their llon and to S Wo recall only the n nines of A evrt I U rlM n V Leo X XI XIII and XIV A XII r in the IS SO on iho recurrence of tho of tho birth of fl being unable because of the particular of lht time to KO Jn person to Ciis filno sent them hli a lo rnp the person of the Pontiff The Visitors Bock Wo int 1 eye tho vast and Its history On another occasion more will hi given In It Rut Is fine thru on UIK I e tho Visitor Hook ami thti on Us by some of the In veiled grateful to S and o his children Let me conclude Ihls series of i logics written in lie Visitors f the mighty y men of the most varied beliefs Uli that by when ii Monte in One thing 3 Mary lias loson belter pir records Kuch na of Urban e Second in of Peter leu In of fn are to be found ie Archives of Monte id in was IJn by Abbot frum Such is the of lie it bulwark ol the HOO year stands anil a comma tiding of the ntu of the Church IMPORTANT WORK POSTPONED to Gods laws corruption of spi it en the part oE many of the divinely appointed guide viz the Catholic Apostolic Ro man can only lend lo one soal la face of alt this Cardinal asks Mow can 1 do otherwise than your invitation Rev Father o become a member of the proponed eague Ills Eminence 03 the necessity of reforming by an active propaganda the mentality Catholics Thus wo may expect to many moons have como gone a campaign no less than any these fifty years The City of Trent Now that bo man of the newspapers give so much space t tho city of Trent from a pon from he preceding six volumes on tho Summa of the Angelle Doctor which were commented upon with particular care in their relation to modern studies much they to rejoice at Ibo appearance of the present tract on the nature of man around which so many new er rors have accumulated through he efforts of false Archbishop Bonaventura to America When train out from Eternal City today bearing the Most Rev Archbishop Titu lar of and Secretary of the S Congregation of Extraordinary EC Affairs en roue for Bal Hmore as of the Pope at tho Jubilee celebration ot His Km Inence Cardinal Gibbons It was re marked how specially fitting the choice of Ilia Holiness for the mis sion The years passed by Ills Grace as Auditor of tbo Apostolic Delega tion at Washington as well as those In Australia as Delegate Apostolic rendered or less nn American or an Australian citizen Probably with the of Cardinal and Father Lop General of the O S M there Is In Home no native of this country DAWN OF Worlds Action Lies Catholic antl Christian Lines or Anarchy acd London Lines are being wr en at eleven on the of Monday November the mo momentous day and hour In hi of mankind Suddenly tho of Is rent with tho si crack of sound bombs the maroon hideous signals that rang o only so recently as the of last to warn the sleeping UK pie that death and wei hovering over them in the Ar isv they crash and crack on a rip id glorious has been signed and war Is at a The trouble r of the world peace Is fled an Ignominious refuge well acquainted the which English le the vern ula of it is but for this col deal with the religious sld of it the eyes ol the traveller turn Instinctively on ug at Trent at old in hich the celebrated was held One taVes a good deal or Internet in tills ancient city with Its beautiful cathedral of Itie century the palace ot and Us monument to Dante but In the of S Maria where tins 255 Fathers of Council of Trent sat hU interest is Here Paul HT convoked the Council in un der the provocation given by the Lutheran and her jig well as the general corrup tion of morals In tho oC tins Pope the first ten sessions were held r Ju Pope DeTers Work oT f Catechism out World th Through The lui for derided ot which will the f Catholic rld The reason for ihla Is w work LA so big and nf a tint It is considered to 1 1 mo for world co millions lo down the tlon Ifi started Including the nppnimnient of nn com as In the uiso of lie lidi ttt Le Canon Law cise much rk such the and rlass of texts li return in Hie 1 nt HOLY SEE EXCLUDED No Delegate from the Vatican In Participate at tht Peace Conference I The Lias JI and ended Its labors it pontificate of Paul IV who con firmed its decree by Uie hull of January 20 To lovers of the of Good Counsel of the of fram the thirteenth to the nineteenth cen tury Affords a study of the nf Nome of tlm tho period of the Dante in Trent of Jantti Trent the great In lo XII of Qual e nuella riiJiin die nel nance Ul ina O JILT e per m an co In the spirited exile How our in Ilio of In tu the feeling Ills indy mun often compelled lo accept hun expelled fram his Vlor In on of the proposal to erect a lo Dante in of the of Homo directed n to those of all universities of fur to make the project a suc cess Tho result a jf mil a statue of iho MIC voTh i line on the face or all the loftiness if IM The Holy Father to Warsaw Warsaw like Tara the halo ot patriotism for all who are not slaves lae pleasure felt on that message from Paris ich of J diet XV to Monsignor Arch of Warsaw rejoicing with HI Irace In of and him of his Intention of ron time as a mark of his love Tor land Beyond the from Paris no other source In Roman press mention i any thing ot the Intention u may be said hero that no date has been fixed for the expected Consistory though it has licen stated in several papers that the twelfth ut December had been determined upon as the date for this important ceremony The determination depends on clr on which a forecast can not Ue made Notes At tho requiem held on the 5th inst for the soul of Plus X as I as at that held on tho tii for the of the souls of tlie who during the past viz Cardinal Prefect of anil Cardinal Farley Archbishop of New York with nil his old laney ibc ins on hoth ho lather has nominated Cardinal of the Uie ami Cardinal one of those ot tin S RESIDENT TO VISIT VATICAN nd tho shadow lhat rested over Is TR free And the cracking of im roons the of sirens on th ships In the and rivers rise oc Kio air the church bolls al on sudden ring out with frenzy an above even these sounds of tho ne Joy that has come to the world are l be heard of men of women and The ended and the day of peace hat dawned There is not a house IE this London but has sent fa t ind Mr Audie Wilson ce While brother or son to the war and the day of reunion I hand It Is eleven oclock on Monday No 1318 tho dayand ttu of Marshal Foch Genera is si me f the Allied armies The hour of the triumph of Right Might the eu preme moment when Christianity in the person of a Catholic crushed tho that was the world the of Luther That the conclusion of an armis tice would on tbe news nf the abdication of the Kaiser was a foregone certainly and late on the evening preceding tills momentous Cardinal Arch bishop of Westminster issued au In junction to tbo clergy of tho cese in lie injunction Cardinal me s lining that in have been daily Haiti In ever Mass for four cars or more should now cesse and give place to other supplications in the changed deuce of Cod lias so to us We enjoin fore that in every church In our dio cese a votive mass of Thanksgiving lie as KOOII ns nnd lhat until flintier notice tlm crii lo of the throughout tho occupation and have been a great source ot coa to prisoners there Sis ler Mario had charge cf the womens side of the prison In which Caplain Fryatt was confined had no opportunity ot speaking to Captain but saw him go forth o his trial and presently return it that Captain Fryatt was t ak in hack to hfe cell without heing the verdict that Lad been passed him Later two came to conduct him to his When ie heard his fate be asked permis sion to write his wife which was ac corded Je was then marched out the tivo fol owed Sister Antoine for Having arrived In the middle of the court leading to the outer gale the stopped and laughing They laughed long ind loud rucking from side to side stood upright between calm and pale his hanging straight down by his s warder afterwards Sister Marie Antoine that Capita ryatt behaved like ahero and J altered This warder was cub sent away for refusing late on oath that Captain orr dying had that was just The death Is announced of Path Valter Phillip Montague S J v to wounds received in a loa on October Father M who was years of the fifth son of Mr R A C M e ot Port Stewart Lo and u great grandson at I Right Hoc Lorl Robert Montague ECHOES FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Appeals to Free Army and Navy Officer Prominent at Peace Conference By Stanton Lawlon PRAYERS FOR JUST PEACE ope Benedicts Letter Asks Pub Prayers and Thanksgivings and Hope of the Future The encyclical letter addressed I ope to the Catholic episc ate throughout the world iffer public prayers for the gul ice by Providence ot lie S peace conference bears the In 1 It cays which entire world b g sighed for lhat Implored with fervent 1 that we interpreting ieT urged with paternal heart t good of all has In a mome cto pass ns the last booming i c guns is silenced Peace lias ni ended thi war hut n rf 11 c c ni o a n whl I e has sue pen de and 1 nnd air happily 00 en in the ml of th o Kim governs nil events to pUy by tiie g of tho conceded t might illy from so many Drifts ho U the of piety that Ii if tin stue uf nd r the Ujr rld in the n It Abbot Latest Work hat wo nil erf ul literary energy uf tin Ab hot O s EJ has rk Horn of which arc n for nnK fo con In roi Abbot Ja leave or s stay nt t e Vatic sident anil Mrs Wil tin PRESIDENT AND CERRI from the Pope To Aw of President Wilson in London N in t the puil ot ivill I lie Mcm in t him for his t iho w Mit of Kcho AS iii IKI IM e Wllson anil lo v u it OF CHILDREN bringing nm or fro est Wa Gods nts Children On o Dally Ask l his an m f tho or Hint must follow on of iu ul the Almighty world a just iul I tlie lie the to nil who omy thn course en ha whn ha when t fieri Is evil dno he li I ho o implore the Al ian principle tf j The Mr Of Jit Hov Thomas J roctor of the Catholic University appealed Wilson in ot its great institution ig him that he USD his influence at peace conference to obtain lor Ireland In common wiLh other sub ject nations the right ol A similar appeal signed by the at nrs ot the Irish Societies of the National was taken to White ilio use by It the opinion of a public meet riig held by representatives ot the Irish Societies that tho American na tion through its President has a unique opportunity lo enforce this fundamental principle for tie free dom or Ireland at the coming peace table and the President Is petitioned use his good offices to that end A resolution was to Pres ident WilGon before sailed for tie conference of Ireland as a decision t the peace conference to be observed by all party to It which was adopted by the National of thi Ancient Order of Hi and Ladles Auxiliary at in executive held nt tho IU in last resolution was signed by all and as fol the Ancient Order ot and Ladles Auxiliary rep a membership ot uid speaking for two anil onehalf of tlie Irish race in America citizens of this great republic let in tbe city of his second day ot December 1918 Pie purpose of the ot Uie Hibernian i America and extending to he President of this Republic an ap of his magnificent inter ot World which will personally expound at the ce d Present in war utterances repeatedly declared set territorial economic and political control the consent ol the has with the same and i for the right of all na and small ui deler 1 of ii file i smil in held in filing rmy nnd Na nt nt Co y ference ENVOYS BACK HOME ch Prelates from Gibbons Jubile
