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35. Corrigan to Scalabrini78

         New York, n.d.

 

Most Venerated Monsignor:

Many thanks for your most kind letter. It is known that I could never have written the article on the Catechism which was written instead by my excellent Italian secretary D. Gherardo Ferrante.79

            I also thank you for the favorable expressions used in reference to me by the Superiors in Rome and of which I am not worthy. In fact, the Superiors have always been too kind with me. I have complained in the past that they were wiser than me, but that they did not want to pursue matters against enemies of the Church in this diocese, against some rebels both clerical and lay. Now, thanks be to God, things are going rather well. I hope much good will come from the encyclical of the Holy Father regarding social errors.80

            In the meantime I commend myself to your prayers always.

Archbishop M.A. Corrigan

 



78 AGS EB 01–05 (original).



79 Msgr. Gherardo Ferrante (1853–1921) was born and ordained a priest in Fosinone. Invited to New York by Archbishop Corrigan, who had met him in Rome in 1894, he moved there and served the Archbishops of New York, Corrigan, John Farley and Patrick Hayes, as a translator of Italian documents and as liaison between the Archdiocese and the Italian clergy. He had also been the administrator for various religious communities of women, including the Pallottine Sisters, who took him into one of their homes in New Jersey for the last years of his life.



80 The encyclical of Leo XIII on social issues is Rerum Novarum published on May 15,1891.





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