Rome
On January 29, 1897 Pope Leo XIII named him the Titular Archbishop of Damascus. He spent the years 1897 to 1899 as canon of St. John Lateran, Assistant at the Pontifical Throne, and counsellor to the Propaganda. He lived in two rooms at the Pontifical Canadian College. He was attacked during the Americanism controversy that began to sweep through Europe "as a rationalist, throwing all dogma over to modern ideas." He fought, and won, the battle to clear his name. In 1899 he was relieved of his responsibilities in Rome to raise funds for Catholic University, which was facing financial difficulties.
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Famous quotes containing the word rome:
“Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch
Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike
Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life
Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair
And such a twain can do ‘t, in which I bind,
On pain of punishment, the world to weet
We stand up peerless.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)