Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1908 — FALCONIO IS CHEERED [ARTICLE]

FALCONIO IS CHEERED

Pope’s Representative at the Romas Catholic Meeting at Chicago O Opens the Conference. Chicago, Nov. 17. —Archbishop Fab canlo, special apostolic delegate to the missionary conference of the Roman Catholic Church Extension society, made the principal address at the opening of the conference, and was vociferously cheered aa he stepped into the pnlplt. He urged the Roman church in the United States to gird its loins for the battle against “irreligion” and the “hosts of atheism.” Two thousand clergymen and the same number of visitors of both ‘sexes heard the address and frequently applauded. Archbishop Faksonio was also the bearer of the pope’s benediction to the Catholic Church Extension society, approving and ratifying the society and making St. Philip Neri the patron thereof. The benediction also grants various indulgences to the members o t the society and closes with: “These privileges, by us conceded, we wish to be perpetual, all things to the contrary notwithstanding.”