The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-03
THE TITLES OF OUR DIaHrrARIKs.


THE TITLES OF OUR D1ex1rAR1Rs.
Editor Morning Star and Catholic Messenger:
Havewe an ecclesiastical titles prohibition
law In the United Statesf The British
Parliament in 1851, during a paroxysmal
attack of bigotry and fanaticism, passed IN
act prohibiting the Roman Catholic episcO-
pacy of Great Britain and Ireland from either
adopting or using their diocesan titles, and
| to this day, as Indicative of contempt for
the Queens Catholic subjects, the sectarian
and Tory press writers studlously refrain
from any allusi0n to the titles of the Catho-
lie bishops.
They are accustomed to speak anil write
of !" DR.. Manning" meaning the Archbishop
of Westminster; or of /" Right Rev. Bishop
Goss, ct Liverpool" meaning the Bisilop Of
Liverpool. Some who have more preten-
sions to iberality occasionally refer to the
Bishop of Plymouth !" others, more liberal
and courteous, to the " Right Rev. DR.. But
Ter, Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick"
What is the practice In this country Z
With few exceptions, we are panied to
notice that either from haste or utter in
difference many of the correspondents of
the Catholic or semi-reigiors press upin-
tentionnlly play into the hands Of 8. evan
gelicaln PrOtestants, in their usual way of
rarely or never giving to the bishops of the
American Church the titles by which the
Pope invariably addresses them, and which
are used by them in their signatures to all
documents, letters, etc, public or private.
Our Episcopalian brethren. with COM
mendable care, never omit the territorial
titles of their bishops, and in consequence
they have succeeded in impressing to such
an extent the press of the United States
and Jurisdiction, prcdicated upon territorial
titles, that reporters and editors, in re-
ferring to the movements of the dignitaries
of the Episcopal Church, usually mention
the Bishop of Louisiana" or the Bishop
Of Mississippi" and rarely the :. Right Rev.
DR.. Wilmer" or the "Right Rev. DR..
Green They have a reason in this policy
to familiarize the people of the country with
the idea that the I" bishops" of those States
are the Episcopal, and that other bishops are
intruders.
Some of the correspondents of the Catho-
lie press use the names of our bishops as If
they were referring to prelates who had re-
signed their sees, or, as if there were some
penal law prohibiting all ecclesiastical
titles. For example, in the diocese of
Charleston, there are two resident prelates,
the " Bishop of Charleston" (Dr. Lynch,)
and the Right Rev. DR.; Persico," who has
resigned his see in India, This territorial
title and jurisdiction,) and was sent to
South Carolina ON q general mission, 90 that
he is properly spoken Of as the Right
Rev. DR.. Persico"-he is bishop in South
Carolina, but not the OF a bishop Of Charles
ton. The English and Irish press, which is
more critically correct than the American
in mentioning, and even in printing, the
titles of the bishops, make the usual dis
tinctiOn, for in the phrase SO Bishop of Liv-
esp0ol,n the word I" Liverpool" is set up in
small capitals.
The secular press of this country, insen-
sibly Influenced by the constant and deter
mined style of the Episcopal Church news
papers, rarely prefix even the word
!" Protestant" to the sfBishop of Louisi-
ana" while the same writers invariably
refer to our venerable metropolitan as
the "Roman Catholic Archbishop Odin,
at New Orleans" or as " Archbishop
Odin," and many of our Catholic CORE
spondents initiate these sectarian writer's in
one respect, only by making use of the same
terms, instead of invariably styling him the
Archbishop of New Orleans.
Nothing is more gratifying to the Exeter
Hall fanatics in England than the uninten-
tional obedience, by some Catholic writer's
in this country, to the insulting ecclesias-
teal titles prohibition act of the British
Parliament, enacted for the purpose of
degrading and humiliating the Catholic
Churches of England and Scotland and Ire
land. CATHoLICUs.
COURT OF IMPEACHMENT.-Mr. Evarts'
speech before this Court must have made
the most profound impression, Judging from
published accounts. One is reminded of