New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-02
FATHER GAvAZZrS LECTURES
Monks and Nuns.


ofihe house and all the front seats in the galleries being
occupied Making his appearance on the stage at .
o'clock the lecturer greeted with loud and pro-
lopged applause He said that the subject OF mis-
evenings lecture was Monks and Nuns and he should
prove that both are useless, and dangerous to the
Church and TO society.
The lecturer then proceeded to speak in Italian, a.
follows:
Monks and Nuns are useless in the Church and in So
cie;y Did Christ ordan Monks and Nuns NO. IAe
primitive Church could worship God-cOuld exercise
Christian vrues-could joyuliy present itself 70 the
suirrings OF msrtyrdom without having ia 'nastlc
Corporation, and so would again, were SUCH abuses
How did these abuses Of Monks and Nuns creep into
the Church of Christi They sroee from the scandals
introduced into the Church by the Popes Whue there
were no Popes there existed pure Christianity Wnen
Popes entered into the Church they brought with them
st,ndor vice. luxury, tyranny, pride-in short every
scandal From the examples OF the Popes themselves
every species OF evil was encouraged.
To check the ncTeasing depravlty OF the Clergy wen
iu,epiioned men founded monastc orders, OF them
very reid in their regulations-for from corrupt
Church no pure morality could How 10 the people, buS
the crystal streAm of christian simplicity written IN
the Gospel would necessarily come TO them polluted.
Therefore you thai # Popish decentralization had not
entered into the Church. religious societies and m0nas
tic corporations would not have been necessary They
intended good, but they proved TO be great
I C,t % soon as the moment was passed.
Eyc.ut for a moment at their foundation all these
NOM, orders were worse than useless Through
them nrrfe eniles- dssensons In the Church D0nnl-
caus hated Franciscanssnd Franciscans hated DON'T
means both hated the Jesuts and we're equally hated o
them while al these orders hate the regular clergy and
ere in turn hated by them. And all thus hatred in the
Church of Love and Charity
Nor are these f,uds all. Discussions soon spread
among the different branches OF the same religious
family The FraDciscsns becoming corrupt were III
vided into upwards of hundred reforms. each hatnS
the other cordially 90 completely were they dis
united in matters of dogma, and in forms OF worship,
that stranger would not recognize them as being OF
the same religion Under these several schools OF
theology accumulated every abuse sbsurdiiy that
could be collected from Pagan idoatry, such az
worship saints, pictures, relics the crown OF
the seven grefs of the Virgin, miracles, rosares pat
ents, benedctiops, &c In word, they opened SHOP
in the midst of the Church (Applau-e0
But some say that we owe much of the arts to Popish
splendor The arts are but Pagan In the theater IN
palaces in the temples, in the ruins OF Pompeu aud
Hrrculeaneum the arts but in the simplicity oil
Christian Church the arts are out OF place Inc fnI'
tive Christians adore God in the Caacomos IN suph'
city and purity of spirit Those who regard me spleh
dor of their houses of worship do NOT adore God but
satan Go to Rome. You will find no public building
in America to be compared with the Papal Temples
fer snlendor A Roman plebean addressing the pOpu-
lace in the Piazza Navona, said pointing TO the splendid
Palazzo Brasohi built by Pope "Splendd a. that pat
ace IT, take knife and scratch any part OF tue build
ing and the blood Of the people Will How from the
wound And say 10 you, make a pu1cture ever so
email in walls of any and blood and tasrs
will dow from the wound Applause and Kisses erie,
m turp the hsser out as he Kissed merely opposition
70 rho spplause. he did no, understand Italian after
some resistance the man was eIected, aud order re
stored
or denominations the Jesuits are the worst. I'm
der the mask OF pretended sancty, they have found
the means deceiving the world Is the world prone
to be deluded lie the world pleased al beng deceived
with outward appearancesi The Jesuit, who are
most cunning have discovered that the world likes to
be dazzled they have humored the foible OF man,
while they perpetrate their maseacres
Woe 20 the people in the midst OF whom tue Jesuts
flourish and found Churches and COllegcs-that people
cannot but perish. want no theories | have facts
more thar enough 10 convince any one VINO WIZ open
his ewes and look The Jesuits have runedSpaln Port
ueAl Mexico France ltsy-aad they will ruin America
II the Americans suffer them to get a footing IN the
land. Applause ,. g
the people must soon become their slaves Neither sci
/ ence nor bellies ktres, nor commerce, nor nationality
/ can exist nnder the whitening shade OF Jesuitism
Nowhere can Popery exist except IN darkness, ignsr'
ance and superstition. We have found II in Italy. The
fret word OF liberty uttered in ls41 Faorf GesN
n-out with the Jesuts-and then they left Italy, tax
Ing the road TO England and America, leaving behind
few in d@guise to the dragons teeth OF dlscord
Now Austria protects the Jesuts the tools by which
che hopes to effect more mischief TO the human race
than she can accomplish by means OF her hundreds OF
thousands Of armed warriors. Ia the hands OF the Jes
uits do Austria and the Pope the education Of the
you that their spirits may be crushed early and that
| uey NAV the more easily be enslsved
! speak not now for Italy. Il Is IN the interest OF
America tbat speak II you wish your children % be
uncorrupfed look sharp after the Jesuits and keep them
az arms length Would to God that America would
perceive her danger. Would 10 God that America
weud listen and learn what the pestience most
/ to be feared by man. Applause.
The Padre then addressed the audience IN English as
follows:
Why do you speak against Monks and Nuns Why
because az Aeneas said in Virgil " Al Of phoA sac
/ q 1reG par Of rhioA pas" We told that when
man u converted from the Roman Catholic Church %
the Protestant he sure 20 speak against the former
but that the contrary, when Protestant joins the
Catholic Church, he does not speak against the Protest,
ant Church. Wen, what ls this sign OF Il - q slsn
that be has nothing 70 say against the Protestant Church
Do you think IL because that be Is Catholic, he
Is ali kindness Not When they have nothing TO say
against a system OF religion, they calunnlate mep-as
| for instance Newman, IN England. When we become
Christians have very much 70 say sgans, all false
systerns OF religion. II man is sincere IN his religion
/ he cannot keep silence: he cannot help speaking
against these auricular confessions and idolstry oil
I prie.ts and bishops and saints Be not astOnshed
therefore, this eveneg speak against the aonkish
system.
! / would ask Roman Catholics II, in the beginning Of
| the Church there any monks Did Christ ever
speak Of them or IN any way alude 70 them No,
never In the hrst centuries OF the Christian era there
! ws<e no Monks. We therefore conclude that II the
early Christians bad among them Monks, there -
no deed OF them at the present day They are perfectly
useless. When Pspacy first srose with power, and
/ splendor and grandeur the temporal authority, then
there vas introduced into the bosom Of the Church
great disorder Then Benedictus and Columbus, and
others prepared 70 institute some OF these onas
ucGl orders. We have Monks at the present Day Il
only IN consequence Of the disorders Introduced By Pa
pscy. In the thirteenth century, when Monks were
preaching the gospel their luxury became 90 great as
stated by many Of the Church that CT Francis instu
ed the Franciscan order 10 prevent these ssPauons
! But without Papacy should not have Monks AZ all
They AZ the present day very dangerous 70 the
Church All kinds of disorder hsve from the mo-
nssticsl system. They have been united In the
Roman Catholic True he Pspsus themselves claim 20
be the only Church that = united-ssy the Protest
ants not united But whAr kind sf unity Il there in
the Roman Catholic Church, If they speak of unity In
dogma would ask them II Prot .stants are not also
here united If they united in regard 70 the
unity 81 God and the incarnation Of Christ also
here united What kind OF unity can the Roman CsthO-
he Church produce that not enjoyed in the Protestant
Churchi Where there tn differences among Pro-
tesAnts there thousand differences among Cath
olics. Blu, there no material dis rsnces exiting
among believers in the Protestant religion. Bacon says