The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-02-07
Our Second Volume.

Nnc0 with the plan neSetolUko atA.1ooii1Sa3sl
orr form has been enlarged, not only 10
length but BY tho addition Of one column
in width On each page. 4
+ This iuprovenient at the end Of the first
yeafss. Gxistencc--a year, too, so oppressive
in its financial distress, 80 fruitful of ruin
to many enterprises7-is the best evidences
that can be given Of the success which has
attended the present effort to establish q
Catholic journal. Should circumstances
continue to favor us as heretofore, and as
everything now appears to Indicate will be.
tie case, we can safely promise that the
first number of ournexG volume, to be is.
sued one year from to-day, win be q quad
ripple sheet of the same sized page as our
present double sheet. Probably long be-
FIRE that time, such improvements will
have been introduced as to leave nothing
desirable to render the MORNING STAR n
complete family Sunday paper.
That the paper has been tinally7estab-,
Iisbed on a successful footing, is due prin-
cipally to the earnest desire Of our1renera-
BILE Archbishop that such shedld be the
case. His evident anxiety on the subject
created 8 unaninsity and animation on the
part both of the .clergy and of the laity in
tefested, that could not otherwise have
been obtained.
4Fbes energetic measures taken in behalf
of the enterprise by the most eminent
priests of the city, were the next most imA
portant agency of success-the husbandry
by which the seed thus planted was assist-s
ed in IFS growth and Development.
These efforts have been responded to IN
a most laudabie manner by our eatholic
population. They have shown, nnles ss1e
of general distress q unces 4
tain prospects for the paper, y spirit taAs
augurs happily for Catholic journal isnA lsa
New Orleans under the auspices Of sbetta
days.
The Catholic population of onr city ~
about one-half of the whole. There Is no
reason why it should not control oRe-ha4f
of the city journals. Instead of one small
Sunday paper, two or three dailies ought
to represent, before the public, its views,
lbs feelings, It's interests.
The press Is q most potent enigma Of good
or evil. Why leave it altogether in the
hands of the enemys Why introduce into
the family, Journals whose columns, even
though enthusiastically, teem with the
spirit of heresy or of pagauisn There
are thousands OF passages constantly oc-
eurring, che morality of which may escape
all but very exact critieism, where stiR, the
spirit Of the world, It's follies, even it's,
VICES, are presented in tone by no means
of censure. The philosophy of Cathohcity
pervades all the affairs of life, and the most
trivial circnmstance assumes different as
poet as viewed in ITS light, or by the more
lurid glare of the pagan civilization which
now pervades society. 1t ia not only facts
that are perverted by an infidel press J;
even when facts are correctly stated. q
false conclusion may be deduced, an i'm
sidious commentary of immortality convey
ed. Almost as well get anti-Catholics to
write our eatechisms as permit them to
present to the innocent minds CT youth q
false and plausible philosophy of life
through the various items of . newspaper
column. .eq
Our habitual family reading, then, ought
to be written from a Catholic stand point.
In political matters, too, many grave
questions of morality are often involved.
The very safety Of society may depend, as
kidd during our recent elections, upon its
correct and temperate views ON all propo-
sitions involving bloeslshed and disorder.
On every suOh question, Catholio-press
is in position to give exact and definite
advice, baaed on principles which cannot
nislasds while individuat opinion, as ex-
pressed ii ether papers, might be tossing
about ON every wave Of passion.
II "a believed. fEa,a the enconrasAyaent
sg::.ss.s Les been given se THE iHitistoEy ef.
fort, that Catholics are awakening TO the
import uce of having y journal established
end conducted ID their interest. We shall
endeaver 20 rsapoyd 70 their confidence
win sucs care ard sclicitade as not to dis
appoinf thns manifested, but
rather ins patronage sufficient
50 sustain paper.
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