The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-02-23
TIE CATHOLIC CAUSE IN EUROPE.

w hllo the WOrlO IS Stlll ringing "A0AA 49,
triumph of the Pontifcal arms in the ltal- |
ian Peninsula, the most recent developments
of the Catholic cause throughout Europe
are hardly less inspiriting than the victory
which covered with the glory of a new Lee
panto, the risorgimento of Monte Rotondo
From late European files we CLEAN that
what has been called the Roman question
is essentially the question of the day, and
that the enthusiasm of the Catholic organ
ization is not confined to that portion OF the
continent which has always been faithful to
the Holy See. Everywhere, indeed, is that
illusion known as the " unity of Italy" re-
| cognized as an unholy phantom. Distrusted
in the outset by thinkers so "hberal" as
Gioberti and Massimo D'Assegfio, scarce
ly survived the last agony Of Cavour.-
| French heroism has, in a great measure,
been the death Of the fanaticism of Ia gio-
zine Italia. It was the sword of France
! that restrained the impious license of
"Young Italy" after the campaign of Ma
genta and Solferino.-The devotion of the
lamented La Moriciere has not proved
sterile. Already, thanks to French energy,
five thousand soldiers in the Pontifca1 SER
vice have replaced the two hundred and
eighty Zouaves of Castelfidardo, and the
Roman Legion composed, under French
auspices, of three battalions, with the Swiss
carbineers and Italian troops, presents what
Gen. Sheridan would call an % impedimentn
to that reconstruction so popular with
radical reformers (proh f,udor!) of every
cline. The army of the Pope-King, under
the immediate command of Gen. Kanzler, a
trusty lieutenant of -MeFieiere, now
numbers some 5000 we'll disciplined men
of all arms.
If NJ. Menabrea, hardly recovered from
the shock of IL ministerial crisis, still re-
mains, amid the fiasco of ''Italian unity"
in power at Florence; it is because, from
his antecedents as a practical Catholic and a
conservative statesman, he shines in con
| trast with his predecessors in office and par
liamentary rivals, Minghett, La Marmora,
Ricassoli, and Rattazzi, all of whom, in
famed with a burning hatred of tho rights
of the sovereign Pontiff, and of the Apos-
tolic See, count their adherents among the
sbiryi of secret societies and dark conspira-
cies, sworn to the doctrine of the dagger
That the ex-President Of the Council, Rat
taxi, who protests loudly against the Ere
dictionary tendencies" and ~Afrancesado
1 1otftiqne his successor in office, inspired
the raid of GaribaIdi and his red shirted
miscreants at Montana, there is no doubt
Even he>cynical perfidy of British diplom-
4 acy must stand aghast ut the fragrant bad
faith of it's especial protege, Signor Rattazzi
In-Anstria, that spurious thing which the
organized Puritan hypocrisy of British
journalism calls constitutionalism, and
which Spanish progresistas euphemistically
term liberalismo illustrate, is on its trial
t The experiment inaugurated by NJ. de Beust,
: who has formed a new administration,
promises to prove costly one to the House
E of Hapsburg, and the best interest of the
Kaiserstadt. Now that Hungary, like GER
tain reconstructed ones among us, has be-
come "trooly loil," beneath the imperial
sceptre of Francis Joseph, NJ. de Beust pro-
g poses, in spite of the Indignation of good
= Austrian Catholics, to set about the revision
= of the Concordat, happily concluded some
!. years ago with the Holy See. Among other
:, notifications, the Austrian Prime Minister
~ demands the suppression of ecclesiastical
t tribunals in matrimonial cases, and the re-
II establishment on liberal basis of laws
; obnoxious to the dogmas of the Catholic
g Church. NJ. de Buest, it must be recollected
II although the Prime Minister of a great
- - Catholic state, is himself, ike--the citizen
n Kings President of the Council, NJ. Guizot,
d a Jealous Protestant in religion, and rigid
e if not obstinate, doctrinaire in politics, who
; derives his inspiration from Geneva rather
: than from Rome. 1t will need all the tact
+ and eloquence of Cardinal Rauscher, who
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