The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-02-09

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are real progress. They may ne progress
Of an inferior kind when they appertah 10
the physical order still, in the designs OF
the Creator, they are intended to he con-
dncive to higher order of progress--that 49,
to mental, moral, and religious progress
The art OF printing is n progress, ana mas
become in the SAME. line source OF other
progress steam p,,wer-isa progress; cleo
tricity is a progress. All these advanceMenlS
in themselves are good i'll practice they are
either good nT-bud, according to their use OF
misuse. You complain that the periodlcal
press is too often misused for bad purposes.
Ii this a reason for not using 1t at HI
Make use of it rather for good purposes
and then nobody will have reason to say
that it is oftener an engine >sf error than OF
truth. ~
The necessity of the Catholic periodical
press must be/more keenly felt in such
times, when we see the most essential
religiousfruths SD impiOusly assaled, those
fundamental social truths so niadly shaken;
when we hear the most pernicious errors y"
".
r,,t,t,,t4 HI necessity -af-the- cathnliI
press ia most evident in this country, where
the sacred truths Of the Catholic Church
are continually assailed by unbelie*-
ers who have no creed, and by our dis
sident brethren who have curtailed the
creed given us by the Eternal Word OF God
made flesh for us; where we hear the
l. &. No Dnnory - ,1tfarad hV
fanatics, who, having nothing else in view
but to serve -tfleir&own= interests and to
crafty fbeir1 bitter hatred against the
Lord and against His Church, misrepresent
us rs enemies to liberty, while, on the con-
Etrary, 1e-Gathelie- doctrine is the only
solid basis both of order and litert -
We want Gnthofic press in@ofir- cities,
where there are SO many occasions of error
and so many sources of corruption; where
words of truth and sobriety are so seldom
heard, and 80 easily checked and stitled ny
the tumultuous hustle of worldly affairs and
| the feverish noise worldly pleasures
We want a Catholic press for such Catho-
lies of the country who cannot attend tC
| church regularly ON account of distance and
other unavoidable impedIments-; more
especially for SO many Catholics who are
| accessible to instruction and exhOrtatiol
through the mail only, living in such sparsel.
4 settled and far removed sections that, witt
all their zeal and indefatigableness, oil
clergy, already overworked, can hardl.
reach them, and are unable to pay then
regular and frequent visits.
In one word, we want Catholic press t
help, and in some cases to supply, the liv
iis.ss-'rssav .prieata Of God; to promul
and cheer the faithful with religious an
edhfying news; to check assault to cSrreC
. Misrepresentation; to strengthen tn
weak to steady the wavering to instrn,
the ignorant to remove misapprehensiol
and to dispel prejudice. ~
If the wants of our Catholic communit
require Catholic paper in English, it is n
less urgently required by our self res,..e
and dignity Would it not h.z.,- shame
such paper was missing in the queen cit
OF the South, which was always, and de
servedly, looked upon as the stronghold q
Catholicism in this whole section of tn
country Can. we forget that our Arch
diocese is the garden spot of that great an,
noble Valley of the Mississippi, which wa
always, and will always be, in spite of al
4 dev fish tricks, the pride, the strength an,
the wealth of the Union of that vale,
which Catholic, nay, Jesuit pioneers frs
discovered which Catholic voyagers frs
explored, Catholic enterprise first colonized
and in which Catholic piety first raised tn,
standard of our Lord and of His Immacu
late Mother, when Father Marquette
named the " Father of Waters' the rive,
OF the immaculate Conception Indeed, il
we thought Catholic zeal needed any III
cltement, we could not find nobler theme
[ than this one Ia lyyall I,nn,,