The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-30
FOREIGN CATHOLIC 1NrE111eENcE.

Ambassador continues to reside at tho Fal-
conleri, Villa at Frascati, coming into Rome
twice u week for the transaction of bust
ness. The conversation between Cardinal
AntOnellI and Count de Sartiges respecting
the non-invitation of Catholic sovereigns
to the approaching General Council of the
Church, is thus reported: His Eminence
gave two principal reasons for the omls-
sion: l. That the condition of Europe is
very different now from what it was ut the
Council of Trent, the principle of separa-
ton between Church and State having been
more or less adopted by nearly all Catholic
Governments. 2. That several Catholic
sovcreiSns are at present not recognized by
the Court of Rome, and their governments,
consequently, not in diplomatic relations
to have gone on to profess the Willingness
of the Ponttical Government, not with
standing these objections, to issue formal
invitations to the Catholic Powers, on re-
ceiving their assurance that, in return for
a renewal of the privilege they enjoyed
formerly, they would engage to afford the
same material protection as formerly to the
Council during its seance, and guarantee
the same execution of it's decisions in their
respective States, favOring to the utmost
the publication and PRONUNCIATION of its
acts. The French Ambassador, not con-
sidering himself Authorised to accept any
such stipulation, limited himself to re-
ferring the Cardinals observations to the
Imperial Government. According to an
additional on at, Count de Sartigcs aspires
to similars honors i'll the approaching Coun-
Gil to those granted to the representatives
of the Holy Roman Empire in preceding
ones, the rights and privileges of the
German Empire having by no means de
scended to that of Austria. The medieval
imperial ambassadors had precedence over
all others in general council, enjoying,
besides other privileges, that of a separate
seat on the right hand of the Pope's legate,
and only little lower. 1t is said that His
Excellency has limited that France has con-
ferred sufficient obligations on the Holy
See to deserve a renewal of these ancient
privileges in favor of her present ambassa-
dor. This does not appear very probable !;
but tout est possible, and we saw, three or
four years ago the Count de Sartiges in
ran, being installed as first canon by proxy
for the French Emperor. The representa-
tives of other Catholic Powers, although
interested in the same question of partici-
patton in the Council, are waiting patiently
for the decision which will be come to be-
tween the Cardinal Secretary of State and
the French Ambassador, intending to make
use of it subsequently as a precedent in adj
vancing the claim of their respective gov
ernments. At the secret printing Office in
the Quirinal Palace the compositors are
putting in type the programme of matters
to the decisions of the six congregations of
prelates engaged in drawing up the propo-
sitions. AS portions of this programme are
printed they are sent off to he Catholic
| bishops to give them time to study the SUBJ
jects before coming to Rome to vote upon
them.
The Unita Cattolica remarks that in the
French Chamber of Deputies, NJ. Olivier
speaking of the great council lately con-
voked by His Holiness, said that as neither
the Emperor Napoleon, nor the Emperor of
Austria, nor the King of Italy had been in
vited, Plus IN had proclaimed the separa-
ton of Church and State, and he exclaimed:
r" Rome herself has provoked the separ;l-
ton" In reply he quotes a letter written
by the Pope on the 18th February 1865, to
Connt solaro della Margarita, which he
deigned to receive from that excellent Ca
tholic copy of his work entitled =" The
Statesmen" which is as follows:
TO or deIore1 san, the noble man. Clement
Soloro dctta h"lyarita, Turin.
'PorE Pits IN.
Beloved Son, Health and Bencdiction,-
The Supreme Author, as well of super
natural as of natural Father, who, being
the beginning and end Of every thing, made
all things for Himself, placed man upon
earth i'll relation to Others ofhis own species,
so that he might unite both heavenly and
earthly things torhs own glory, and wished
to so subordinate the one to the other by
the laws and vcissitudes which subject the
inferior to the superior that they should
help each other to carry out his great
plan-and with combined concording eff
forts, aid in directing the whole human
family to obtain true and eternal felicity
Whosoever then shall attempt to dsunitc
this admirable arrangement, or try to re-
move God and religion from civil society,
or to separate them, certainly seeks to
undermine the edifce, to stop it's stability,
designing to compass its ruin, and confirms
that oracular saying of the Sacred Script
ures, "Thc Nation and Kingdom that will
not serve Thee shall perish, " etc.
Cardinal Antonelli has recently been
named Protector of Iagaralo, and Cardinal
Borromeo, Protector of the District of
Rocea di Papa.
A letter from Rome states that the CORE
spondence of the Irish bishops with the