The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-07-05

in the fathers way of thinking, and the GIRLS
in that OF the mother, SO that if one parent
that parents sex are to be brought up in in
fidelity, according to the law to which His
Imperial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty gave
his deliberate assent on the 25th of last
month This is, undoubtedly, a triumph,
Christianity itself. The same law ordains
that illegitimate children shall be brought
up in their mothers faith, and, of course. in
no faith at all if she should be without faith
in the Christian religion. When child at
tains it's fourteenth year, this precious law
authorizes him or her to adopt any religion
he or she pleases, regardless of the will OF
parents or of their prenuptial stipulations.
Unless the Austrian empire be under the
guidance Of Q special Providence, we fore
and misery flowing upon. That Land from this
fountain Of vice. There are other provisions
Of the law to which we see no objection
except SO far as the change may have been
Effected in violation Of the Concordat, and
without the Holy Fathers necessary con-
sent. Such, for instance, is the provision
which exempts the members Of one religious
communion from contributing to the main
tenance Of q different communion, except
where the obligation to do 80 is founded
upon the rights Of private patronage or upon
special contract. Neither have we anything
to say against another provision of the new
law which relieves the professors of one
form of religion from the necessity of alb
staining from servile work on the fete days
of. another religious communion; but we
are not without serious misgiving as to the
propriety of compelling, as the new law
does, the members Of a religions denomina-
ton to allow sepulture in their cemeteries
to persons of different forms of faith, when
| the latter do not happen to have cemeteries
Of their own. There are circumstances in
which this eenp1lsien may be perfectly
legitimate, but the Austrian law seems to
disregard exceptional circumstances, and to
be based upon a broad principle of forcible
intrusion.
new Austrian legislation deserves to be re-
corded and noticed. II there be any one
name in Austria more fiagrantly associated
than another with the hostile attacks upon
the Concordat it is that of DR.. Muhlfeld, the
, pet representative of Viennese radicalism in
: the Reichsrath. This man, who professed
to be sincere Catholic, and who was regu-
lar in the outward observances of the eccle-
. siastical discipline, was q vehement assall-
: ant of the Concordat. He made himself the
b rallying point for all the enemies of the
: Holy See. From his speeches the rest took
Y their tone. His denunciations the Lutheran,
: the Calvinist, the jew, and the infidel were
e content to repeat. He succeeded in his
II purpose; but the triumph of his implouS
l. policy was the close of his turbulent career
q 1t may be only a coincidence-curious, in
Il deed, but not supernatural. The unbe
lever will doubtless treat it as an acciden
unworthy of the philosophers considera
, ton. He is free to do 90. But IN the mine
9, of tho Catholic who has calmly observed thu
u strange incidents connected with the event
=, full career of Plus TX, the death of DR.
U Muhlfeld, at the moment when the Concor
70 dat was scandalously set aside by that i'm
= pious legislation of which he was the chic
! promoter, must arouse serious thoughts
I, One after another, the POpe's enemies, win
o ought to be his friends, and whose hostility
"a is parricidal, perish, disappear, or becom
7, objects Of public detestation or contempt
just when they expect to Aaunt their un
y hallowed victory in his face; and, as If t
Z mark the Divine vengeance more conspicu
III ously and legibly, the heretical assailant
10 of the Holy See are spared, while the rebel
y lious children of the Church are etrucl
o instances conspicuous and numerous Ofthi
y remarkable truth. The burial of DR.. Muhl
OF field on the day the Official Gasette of vi
ID emma announced that the Anti Concorda
80 Bills were, by the act Of the Emperor,
t, Austria, the law of the empire, is not les
OF signifcant.-Lonaon Weekly Register, ct
d ultimo.
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