O'Connell and Gibbons are at heart patriotic Americans and
members of an American hierarchy, yet they are as cardinals
foreign princes of the blood, to whom the United States, as
one of the great powers of the world, is under an obligation
to concede the same honors that they receive abroad.

Thus, were Cardinal Farley to visit an American man-of-war,
he would be entitled to the salutes and to naval honors
reserved for a foreign royal personage, and at any official
entertainment at Washington the Cardinal will outrank not
merely every cabinet officer, the speaker of the house and
the vice-president, but also the foreign ambassadors, coming
immediately next to the chief magistrate himself.

Incidentally, it may be mentioned that when a royal
personage not of sovereign rank visits New York it is his
duty to make the first call on Cardinal Farley.

#Knights of Slavery#

Such is the worldly station of these apostles of the lowly Jesus. And
what is their attitude towards their brothers in God, the rank and
file of the membership, whose pennies grease the wheels of the
ecclesiastical machine? His Holiness, the Pope, sent over a delegate
to represent him in America, and at a convention of the Federation of
Catholic Societies held in New Orleans in November, 1910, this
gentleman, Diomede Falconio, delivered himself on the subject of
Capital and Labor. We have heard the slave-code of the Anglican
disciples of Jesus, the revolutionary carpenter; now let us hear the
slave-code of his Roman disciples: