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TEE NEW EiOMEsEI :. CGlEA.
The Immaculate Conception Of our Lost Blessed
Lady.

| IRe glorious news has reached us tha I
on the eighteenth day Of December, Pope
Plus X, ofimmortal renown. in the pre-
sence OF the Cardinals and princes Of the
Church, declared it in an Article of Di :
uine Faith. that the Mother of God on.
Mosl Blessed Lady was Conceived with.
out Original Sin.
The doctrine which is now promulgat-
ed as an article Of fa;.h. and hencrfor!h
which it will be hsEesy not to receive.
has long since been believed by ell pious
Catholics. But this dogmatic definition
of lis ruth aud character IS favor be-
yond. 1t has given joy to the whole
world. and is 1t too much II We expect
from i, the paciGca,;on Of the nations,
and general PIos;Iaiion OF heretical and
prosecuting forces II is year Of sor-
rows that has preceded is announcement.
Pestilence has stalked abroad over the
earth. Cruel. bloody, and causeless war
has carried mourning into tens OF thou
sands of Christian homes. Famine has
been standing at the door. and general
distress. not altogether accour table S to
It's sources. has disaranged The business
and the worldly wealth of The multi,udes.
The church. too. and her members, have
been prosecuted. In the midst of these
chastIsements we must say it, men have
not returned in their hearts toward God.
They have forgotten his hand, nnd have
vainiy sought remedies in natural ways.
The very depth of human misery and an
guish have plead before the throne Of G od
for more powerful iniercession; and the
Holy Ghost, the Comforter, has taught
by His Church truths that the world in
early ages was not able 20 hear
Perilla Regis produent.
Il new banner is raised on the walls oil
our salvation. 1t is set mp by strong hand
and one that cannot Ill. When the soldiers see
a new standard advance by the order of THEN
Chief they prepare assiducusly TO follow il
The reason of our great exu'ta'ion at this new
definition is, because the saints and holy one
of past ages, whc hive defended this doctrine
desired TO live that they might see it Defined
have predicted that this declar alton would b.
followed by time of great rest aud advance
ment 10 the Holy Catholic Church. New grace
were to- be kindle / in the hearts of the faithful
and new nlultitudes were t. flock from the path
OF error into the great highway of Gods truth.
Let the Ca hOlcs of America acknowle lg
their past terpidity of faith aud hasten 10 shak
IL eff. Letus betake ourselves II our great pal
, roness-AIary of Imiaacu late Conception. lie
| faith, and hope, and charity, grow strong witt
in US and let Us remember that God has set on
task before us-that of being, ali OF US, in on
various places. missionaries OF the '',rabernacl
of God with men," whose great business IT is I
save our own Souls, and to convert this youn
! and mighty nation to the love of God, VINO wa
, horn, for love Of it and US, Of The Iinmacula,
Virgin
The dispatches and communicates
, which the Journal gives in conDectio
with this interesting fact, are too length
for our columns. but We give extracts
q The following to the Universe at Pari
Q is from Louis VeniIlot.
: ssSlENSa, 10th Dec, 1854.
1.-THE Pope, officiating at ST. Peters, has pr
mul gated, after the Gospel, lat eleven o'clock
4 the expected decree. The Immaculate conce
:, ton is declared tue faith of the Church, al
whoever denies 1t is a hereto.
: Two hundred Bishops were present: Ne
I er has such multitude been seen. Rome
intoxicated with joy"
:. Accompanying this dispatch is Il
= following:
e 'sMary has been conceived immaculate: it
n the faith of the Church whoever denies il is
e hereto. What great things III these word
. and what spectacle given to the world Pc
8 suaded that the majority of those who ha'
l. thought TO Use serious objections against tn
q dogma itself. AMI against the form OF its procl
:, nation, have only wished to use liberty whie
. seemed to them still permitted. and are no
submissive as their very title of Caihol cs, whic