Editorial Notes [pp. 898-901]

EDITORIAL NO TES.
Pope, acting on the report of the Congregation, now gives
leave for the introduction of the process of beatification,
using, according to immemorial custom, his baptismal name
of Joachim, reserving his pontifical name for the following
decrees. The members of the Congregation of Rites present
on this memorable occasion were Cardinal Aloisi.Masella, Prefect of Rites; and Cardinals Parocchi, Bianchi, Melchers,
Ricci-Paracciani, Ruffo-Scilla, Mocenni, Verga, Macilla, Macchi,
and Langenieux.
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That remarkable address of Archbishop Ireland's upon "The
Church and the Age," spoken at the jubilee celebration of Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore, has been printed as a pamphlet by
the Catholic Truth Society, and published by Murphy & Co.,
of Baltimore. Its price is fifteen cents a copy, but the Buffalo
branch of the Catholic Truth Society is distributing it gratis in
that city, and is ready to supply any non. Catholic who wishes
to ask for it. This is a most commendable course, and one
deserving of extensive imitation. The stimulus of a trumpet
blast is the feeling induced by the reading of the eloquent archbishop's address. It is bracing and rousing, and stirs up all the
sluggish energies. The church which produces men who write
and preach as Archbishop Ireland preaches, the candid reader
must say, is not an effete thing but as full of life as the circling
universe.
Events of the gravest importance, in a moral as well as a
political sense, are passing before our view in Great Britain.
One of those great national crises has arisen there, and the outcome cannot but be a momentous alteration in the condition of
political parties, and perhaps in the very constitution of the
country. The crisis is a dual one. There is a religious and
moral struggle going on simultaneously with a deadly political
tug- of-war.
The religious question is being fought out at the school
boards. It was impossible that the system of bringing up children in ignorance of religious and moral duties could go on
for ever with such spectacles before the eyes of the English
people as its results on the Continent. Every death-dealing
bomb which has been flung amongst innocent people, since the
anarchist movement began, was the horrible reply to the demand
for an infidel education for the children. We, who are confronted with a similar trouble here, may well observe what is being
done over the question by the thoughtful English people. The
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