The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-24

merits of the private secretary in the trans
action were recognized by the government.
and influence and employment were ac-
corded him in abundance. He was NOM
first of Orleans, and then Of Paris. He
|eA2Rk a part in the coronation Of the Empe-
|A& NaH31eOn but in 1903, on the death
eef Car 3elloy, archbishop of Paris, the
grand SBca swaes sPpointed, as vicar ca
durisS tbs Eacassy peri" perform. .ns see ef
his1 his new ysonn mt an end
for ever friend Violations between his
sovereign and elf. -
Napoleon was Jdst now mt the height of
his glory. Victory succeeded victory in
rapid succession, and Thanksgiving was
offered for each i'll a public Tie Deum. The
singers in the churches, it was said. had No
time to breathe. 1t fell to the vicar CAN'T.
ular to issue the order for one of these
solemn services; and he took the ,epportu-
nifty OF exhorting the faithful to pray that
peace might be restored to their COUNTRY.
and that leisure might be grS1t4dIto their
sovereign to occupy himself wholly with
the good of his people. We can we'll believe
that the emperor had no desire that such
prayers shonld be granted; hut q hargraver
ground of displeasure soon arose.
The lawless aggression of Napoleon upon
the States of the Church had met with mil,
ltary success. The sovereign of those
States had no force at hand to resist the
attack. He used the spiritual power with
needed not the accommodation would it
make the bayonets drop from the hands of
his sOldiers7 But Achab soon found him
self in need of the assistance of that Naboth
whose vineyard he had made his own. The
archblshopric of Paris was vacant, and
without the POpe's concurrence the see
could not be filed; but Plus VII refused to
concur. Napoleon, however, was not to be
bat1ed by such an obstacle. Some have
accused him of a fixed design to initiate
Henry VIII, and establish in France q
church in which the emperor should be the,
Pope. At any rate, his conduct at this
time favored the suspicion that some such
plan WAS before his mind. A prelate of the
Church was found to abet him one who
had long followed the fortunes of the exiled
Louis XVIII, who had been raised by the
Pope through successive stages to the dig
nifty of cardinal, and who deserted the
cause in which he had met with so much
favor in order to enjoy the sunshine of
imperial favor at Paris. Cardinal Maury
was nominated by the emperor to the va
cant post of archbishop of Paris. He
accepted the appointment, and, the able
was required, as vicar capitular, to give to
the nominee the spiritual powers necessary
for the administration Of the diocese. He
refused. Indeed, he could not do otherwise
without mourning the guilt of, open schism.0
lie SinOn Law was perfectly clear upon
the subject, and in this case all possibility
of doubt was taken away by the express
declaration of the Pope. We cannot here
enter into particular account of the affair;
it is enough to say that other means to
subdue the determination of the able being
found unavaiing, resort was had to vio-
lence, and in the Life we find the account
which he himself gave of his final-interview
with the emperor, on the first day of the
year 1911. After this interview he was
committed to prison, from which the down.
fall of Napoleon, in 1914, alone delivered
him.
This notice is already too long, and we
have no space to describe the struggles of
d'Astros, whilst successfully Bishop of
Bayonne and Archbishop of Toulouse, to
secure the liberty of education in his coun-
try. In these he showed the same mistaken
firmness in the course of duty as that which
led him in earlier years to abandon home
and fortune, and to risk life itself. We will
conclude with quoting the rule of conduct
which he sought to carry out in all his
actions: al will advise the most gentle
course consistent with principle" Je pro-
poserai les aris les plus dour, saul les prin-
cipes.-Ihe Month.
The OLD LEAvEN.-We had thought that