The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-05-30
REVIEW OF THE WEEK.
"a Cold-Bfooded' Fanatic"

y. A,nbonsus Ligueri, This sinot new pupli-
.;on Several generations b ave been instruct
.1i6ed and conseled by it's sentiments.
,5,on after edition has been printed in every
rnroneau language, nor has its influence been
e,l+ outside of the Church, for Professionals
.no,,v with Catholics have sought and found
..,,otion in the !" Considerations" 1t was
cat such n demand that Protestant trans
,s.od tbe work. and a prominent Protestant
,...s eIler published it for Protestant use. We
lid not descend to the degradation of re-
s.,;rn the calumnies of u writer, whose mind
:. y;dcntly more accustomed to reyeI in the
.,uns of infdeiity than in the pure atmosphere /
Of religious thought or refinement Our sole |
oh;sct is to nexpress astonishment that the |
managers of a journal, which has thousands of
cotbolie readers, should permit soswantan an |
insult to one Of the most, Grated saints ip
,be calendar to pollute columns. A man
whom ctonteadipg dioceses sought Tor their !
nas1or-A man who III seasons Of want sold
evervthiue that belonged to him, even to!the
rnc which was the insignia Of his Office, and
the buckles of his shoes, to relieve heIpoOr-
man whose 1'works-exceeding one hundred,
in every department of theologyand morals
after the most rigorous scrutiny, received the
vorld-A man. at whose demise princes, bish-
ops and magistrates united in according every
heroic and spiritual virtue. The works of'such
a man "more injurious than books condemned
for immortality" Such q man picturing " God
as an avenging despot, and man degraded
demonw We must be permitted to repeat,
that in referring to this vili6cation aud sour
rility, we are principally moved to put Catho-
L.. as,,pt stSSf "a
papers where they had reason TO expect better
things: - RI, l.t, SEA -z!{4ji=-a 1885, ~he.
.sThe works of Alphonsus, bishop of Agatha,
are intended for a manual of devotion, and is
made up of o series of short religious rhapso-
dies under the title of Considerations. 1t was
written as the author asserts, for the purpose
of pricking OF wounding the conscience, and
thereby exciting remorse of soul, (which is pre-
sumed by this cold blooded fanatic to be the
only means of arriving at grace. 1t is nothing
more or less than q series of repElsiyely ascetlc
rawlings, in which God is pictured as am aveng-
ing dsspot, and man as p degraded demon We
need not ayow our unbelief in any such doc
tine, but we viii our fathomless pity for the
unhappy wretch whose petty conscience strng-
giles in such q slough of despair, even though
self-created. The time has passed, thank God,
forever, when intelligent, humane and civilized
people are to be frightened out of their, wits
into criminal fanaticism by snch visions 81
He'll and bodily sutferings as this writer deals
in. We regard the influence of such work as
for immortality. The thief who robs life of its
sunshine is indeed to be despised, and we can
conceive of no other object in view by the au-
thor, although he asserts a higher and hoiiel
aim The day for PROSECUTING through fear has
happily passed away, leaving mankind all tne
better for it, and the sunshine of Heaven VIII
lure many more wanderers, when beamlpg
through an atmosphere of love and forgiseness
than the the heavy, fGtid vapors evolved from
the brains of any such unhappy and mistaken
misanthrope as the one who cohe0cted TIN
mass of miserable mosaic."'
CITY LITIGATIoN.-Just about this time Their
seems to be a perfect furore to appeal. to tn
Courts to decide controyerted matters. Thi
rushing into law appears to- be chronic. Ba
it is tedious, irlsome, and expensive amusf
ment and enurcs ultimately to tile cost of th
citizen. In some of these cases, at least, thi
resort would seem to DO unnecessarily. But W
do not intend to interfere IN thu wrangl
First, we have the Coan oil imbroglio.o Bot
the appointces of Coy. WarInoth aud the men
hers recently elected BY the people have inst
tated proceedings, through counsel, to obtai
seats among the digniied city fathers. d. -
The School Board (old) have petitioned fl
an injunction restraining. certain parties,
publican, pretending to be the Board ofScho
Directors for the city OF New leans7
terfering or encroaching on their (the o
Board's1 rights
Then here comes the Butchers Benevole
Association, applying for an injunction again
the slaughter-house Company, with string
reasons therefor as clear and emitting as I
keenest cleaveE could demonstrate, covert
fourteen sheets of fooiscap. And lastly, t
Slaughter-house Company have, in their tul
''ihjuncted" the Benevolent Butehers-dect
ing that the former intend eneroaehing
their humane vocation of doing for lambs a
other innocents. Verify the mania for injuI
tions is terrific.
METHODIST INTRIaUEs.---It is a fact too
torious for denial that the Methodists of t
country have boosted of eIecting two Pre-
dents, and that in the future their prepond
ance can influence the lestinies of the natl
The Methodist organ in this city affects to
greatly alarmed because there are few Cat
lies in the Counsissi7 Bnt1 Methodist preach
may with impunity resort to the low intrigue
pothouse politicians Our sanity AdrocGte