Lehre und Wehre St. Louis, Missouri — Dezember 1913, Seite 564

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564 Kirchlich-Zeitgeschichtliches.

wenn letzteres dazu willig wäre. Aber trotzdem weisen sie ganz entschieden
das zurück, worauf es dem Papst schließlich allein ankommt: die Hegemonie.
Die sonst so schlauen Vertreter Roms, wie Gibbons von Baltimore und
Glennon von St. Louis, merken bei ihren Vorschlägen, die Weltstellung des
Papstes betreffend, nicht ihre Voreiligkeit. So hat Glennon kürzlich in
Kansas City wieder den Vorschlag gemacht, an Stelle des Haager Schieds⸗
gerichts den Papft zum allgemeinen Schiedsrichter in der Welt zu machen.
Dazu hat sich P. Hamilton Combs von Kansas City, wie die St. Loues Nimes
berichtet, also geäußert: „I was deeply interested in a news item in the
morning paper. It was à report of a sermon by Archbishop Glennon in
which he advocated the substitution of the Vatican for the Hague as
4 peace tribunal. Now, I have no disposition to eriticise the Archbishop.
He is from my town, and personally is à most likable man. He is able,
t00, and if a red hat is to be given to another American, theéreé are many
friends of Archbishop Glennon outside his oπn communion who would
be glad to see him its reeipient. But the proposal of the learned prelate
is daring to à deégrée and naive to the point of wonderment. What would
tlie Archbishop think of a proposal to substituteé for the Hague tribunal
the head of the Methodist Church, which is the House of Bishops, the
bead of the Englisb Church, or the head of the Greek Church? From
the standpoint of pure practicability, what would he think of it? And
Vet, speaking not as churchmen, but as dispassionate investigators, are
not the heads of any of these churches the better fitted to such a colossal
taské? Is not His Holiness confessedly antimodernist in nearly every sense
of that word? IS he not confessedly a man who knows but little of the
eurrents of the life of to-day? That he has commerce with the skies none
will deny, but that he is in touch with the age in which he is living may
be seriously questioned even bye the most ardent Romanist. Strikingly.
even from the accounts of those from within. does the present Pope difler
from his predecessor, Leo, Wwiio was aà man witha world grasp and with
world activities. That a gentle, kindly old man, living the shut-in-life,
Prisoner of the Vatican,' should be thought of in connection with the
arbitrament of world disputes, is a remarkable commentary on the Ho-
meric nod' of even so talented a mian as Archbishop Glennon. That, going
further, a Proteéstant power like England, engaged in a controversy with
a Catholic power like Spain, should be willing to leave the adjudication
of its differences with a tribunal necessarily biased in such a situation,
is wholly unthinkable. Evidently, for the moment, this eloquent preacher
had quite quit the paths of exact thinking. and had given himself over
to broideréd dream. He was not so much thinking as just dreaming aloud.
Surely, the Archbishop does not expect us Proteéstants to aecept the doc-
trine of papal infallibility! And yet, only such acceptance makes even
thinkable his most astounding program.“ Die Timeés berichtet, daß Erz⸗
bischof Glennon es verweigert habe, sich über P. Combs' Aussprache zu
äußern. F. P.
Unsere St. Louiser Stadtkonferenz sandte am 25. November 1918 fol⸗
gendes Telegramm an Präsident Wilson: „The practice of the President
and other high officials of our Government who are not Catholies attend-
ing the Pan-American mass on Thanksgiving Day, gives offense and umbrage
to multitudes of loyal citizens, and gives à false show of preeminence to

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