The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1868-07-26
A Catholic Daily.

n S0tuOuO O0Ay.
10 The necessity of daily paper, unde
Catholic control, wherever the communit.
is able to sustain it, is evident from tw'
considerations the indispensable characte
of the daily press, and it's vast influence.
What family can get on without it
morning paperi The telegraph, local news
general news, miscellaneous matter, fiction
editorial analysis of the days topic-every
column has its special votary, and ever,
member of the family has special need O
the paper. It affords an intellectual fooi
at stated intervals, the reception Of which
soon becomes a habit and necessity
Whether this is desirable or not-whethe,
the newspaper form of literature is, as its
admirers assert, superior in character, in
terest, and utility to the more labored ex-
preston of thought in books-is not the
question now. We take facts as we find
them. The tendency of the age cannot
sometimes be checked; but it can always
be directed to good. Every family of any
education will see the morning paper, even
at the expense of curtailing other indul-
gences apparently more essential.
And then the influence of that yoiceless
| intercourse Who can calculate it There
granted whatever they see in newspaper.
For them the authority is conclusive, when
you say 81 saw it in the paper" They
can conceive of a mans telling lie but not
of his printingit. 1t is true that those parties
are more inclined to credulity than others,
and that they generally have but little
knowledge of journalism behind the scenes,
yet, even for the great majority of readers,
there is good deal of this unquestioning
confidence, vague reverence for the char
acter of the press as public monitor, often
more justified by sense of what the press
ought to be than by the knowledge of what
it is.
A newspaper is not merely a record of
events; it is an exponent of philosophy and
morals. Not only may it publish falsehood
as fact; it can also, from truthful premises,
with ingenious sophistry, lead the unskil-
full and unsuspecting mind into dangerous
errors in social ethics and in faith. Some
weeks ago, we saw in one of our best Sun
day issues labored article, in the shape of
q story, to convince its youthful readers
that honesty is unsuccessful and miserable
in this life, while selfshness, meanness,
avarice, and dishonesty are necessarily
blessed with success and worldly content
Here were false and dangerous conclusions
deduced from some stray facts which may
have been partially true. The same paper,
in n very recent number, lends it's au-
thority to the PRONUNCIATION of as black a |
f1,no -
nalism have smuggled into the general
press for long time. Aud here it is:
Paris letter says that news had been re-
ist conspiracy i'll Southern Italy, which is
intended to restore Francis, the son of the late
Ferdinand, to the throne of the Two Sicilies
The eX-kng's pr0clana is said to be printed
and ready for distribution. Rome is the head
quarters of the proposed revolutionary conspi-
racy to break up the kingdom of Victor
emanuel, and bring about restoration of the
,Xiled royal families. The principal agents of
he Bourbons now, as before, at Rome, are said /
% be the priests,
Render unto Caesar the things that are
;Rsars," is an injunction which the priest
lood strictly obeys, by leaving civil gov
rnmeat in the hands of the temporal &.
authorities. 1t is set apart for the things I
f God, and not of Caesar. A priest of the
,atholic Church does not practice law or t
Medicine, nor does he pursue any CONNER ,
ial or mechanical occupation independ-
ntly of his vocation as priest. Not only i
7ould it be a degradation of the sacred
ignity of his calling to do so, but it would t
lake him rival in business, when he ought c
D be be disinterested friend in all things, I
nd array him as a partisan of one clique, t
, violence to his true character of common
.ther to all his flock. If a priest may not, t
len, enter upon the peaceful and produe- t
We ordinary avocations of society, how L
an he possibly throw himself into tho e
cepa of nuhlic strife into the of Low.