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CARDINAL GIBBONS ON ARCHBISHOP CARROLL The address Cardinal Gibbons delivered the other day before the Catholic Club of Baltimore on the life and character of the first American Bishop afforded the Cardinal an opportunity of showing that the Catholic Church has not lost the impress stamped on her by the patriotic priest who has earned the title of " the Patriarch of the American Church." An American of Americans, Archbishop Carroll could not fail to thoroughly sympathise with his country in her efforts to throw off the English yoke under which she was groaning. The declaration of Independence appealed alike...

To celebrate the 175th birthday of Stateside Catholicism's home-grown "pontifex maximus," the 15th archbishop of Baltimore led a noontime Mass Thursday in the cathedral church where James Gibbons was baptized and said his first Mass, was made a bishop and installed as head of the nation's "Premier See," where he received the red hat and, after 44 years as the faith's "unchallenged" face and voice on these shores, was laid to rest.