New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-10
ITALY.


The correspondent at Rome to the Armoaia Jesu-
itca Journal OF Turin, makes the following statements
about youug Mortara;
1t was with great Joy that this child entered the In
sttuon Of the Cutechumens. When he arrived he
perceived above the gate statue Of Our Lady Of
Tears. "Why does she cry" he asked " She is
weeping" they answered him. because the Jews do
not b. come converted and are not willing 10 ac-
knowledge her divine Som" Then" replied the
olld, :" she is weeping my father and mother"
When ihf y announced to hin bis fathers visit, he
was delighted at IT, for the Catholic religion, very far
from extinguslug filia love- strengthens II by sane
tifyine it, Besides he imagined he should be able to
convert his father, and render him Christian like
himself. This was his hope, and he showed 1t art
lessly. But when he raw his father and found him
deaf 10 all his prayers, he began 10 weep bitterly.
In fine, this child is firm in the faith Ike apostle.
His father begged him to 90 back with him to Bologna
saying to him, "Why don't you come with me! Have
you forgotten Gods commandment, Honor thyfather
and mother p" The child remained pensive for
moment, and then replied: The Pope knows the
commandments better than You or l. shall DO what
the Pope says!'
He knows the catechism admirably, and makes the
prof ssiOn of faith IN the most complete and exact
manner He insists on this point that the Jews have
neither altar, Holy Virgin, nor a Pope. He says
be should like to convert them, and by his tone you
perceive that it il grace which is speaking in bin.
The Pope wished TO see him, and was enchanted
with him. The child blesses the servant maid that
baptized, and thus opened to him the entrance to the
Catholic Church. they asked him what the Pope
Jesus Christ :" added they His face colored up, and
he aaid " Jesus Christ IL the Savior of men, whom
the Jews crucified.'
AND thew want child of such quick faith to be de-
rvered up to the Jews That would be a cruelty with
ont name, ana the most open violation Of that prnc
pie of liberty of conscience which the Liberals have
ever in their mouths. The young Motara finds at
Rome in the Catholic Church, the prott cton
ry to him, that he may be able to profess his faith
freely and be instructed in the duties Of his religion.
is not in Rome that they use violence, and seek to
convert people by force. Cases similar to young Nor.
taras are rare, for rarely do such sigOal
triumphs of grace. For the rest, one here makes
the least opposition and the parents themselves are
satisfied at seeing their child brought up in the Hospi-
tai Of the Catechumens.
There are certain journals that declaim on this sub
ec but their destinations only inspired by the
hatred they feel for the Pope, catholicism and baptism
itself. Suppose the Young Mortara had been born a
Catholic, and had turned Naudois Protestant or q
Turk these self-same journals would not have anethe-
mns enough to launch against any person wishing to
prevent it, And now they want him TO be constrained
BY force to turn Jew again!
Let us pity them. They gnash their teeth with rage
at the of this conversion, and this sign OF grace
makes them baspheme like denonds. But on this
occasion, in attacking the Holy See, they have not
well chosen their ground it would seem they really
believe that in Rome the eternal salvation of Chris
tan s not something far more precious and important
than the capture OF the Cagliari can be AT Naples.
The .JOurRat des D6bdts has received the following
letter from Bologna on the same subject:
BoIoGsA, Oct. 1s.
We have not cen surprised at the article in the Os
sercatore which, after long hesitation, has at last
come forward TO break lance in favor OF the Holy
rQuistOn. The low and trivial language OF this arti-
ee is III keeping with the cause 1t upnods, and IN this
respect leaves nothing to be desired.
IL is entirely false as correspond
ents assure me- that the father was able to see his
child freely He could him, but only in the pres
ence of the Rector of the Catechumens, aud the child
continually declared that he wished to go back to his
Fl..nh 1..tth thau
promised him that IN his absence the Secretary OF
the Jewish Committee at Rome should be allowed to
visit his son. But the moment this individual pre-
selted himself at the mansion of the Catechumens,
rot only old they refuse to admit him. but the rector
answered him from window Of that monument OF re-
heous intolerance that upon the return of the Card
nal Inspector of the Catechumens to Rome a formal
order had been given longer to admit any jew the
inerdctiOD being extended TO the parents themselves.
The Rector Of the CateehumeDs did worse still.
About the end Of the last montl, little gar was by
his order taken out for walk in the streets OF the
Ghetto, either for the purpose of bantering the young
girls you mendng their rags there, or 10 make an
impression on the mind Of the little fellow, 10y putting
his comfort in contIat with the poverty Of those
fortunate people, who recall 10 mind the wretched
state of the ish Catholics in the days of of Elizabeth
and Cromwell.
These wretched instances of low trickery lead me to
mention another. To revenge themselves for the hor
ror produced so justly Throughout Europe by this
abouinable act. our tmPreSGriO of the Piazza Mag
giore where sort Of puppet-show is exhibtedl has
received orders 10 put INTO the mouth OF his mario
pettes once week words of hatred against the Jews
so as to kinde religious fanatcsm But this has been
Of use; city has remained mpassve to such in
citements.
Such are the coptrvsnces they have recourse to.
Sensible persons here say that this affair has been
error on Il part Of Cardinal Niale Prela. But il is to
be observed that the lnquisiton does what it likes
and listens to advice, being quite sure that no
will venture to contradict IT.