The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-01-17

tween "tbe Catholic faith and nii protastant
creeds there is gulf which cannot be bridued
over. 1t would, therefore besimpIy imnoss}kIc
toadopt any religious teaching Whatever In
mixed schools, without at once interfarinr
with Catholic conscience No such teachinr IA
attempted as q general rule we believe. in fha
public schools Of the United States: ana hencss
we have only o vague announcements of moral
precepts, the utter futility and barrenness of
agreeing with very many euii9htened and
Jealous Professionals believe that secular ednca
ton, administered in this way. ia not onivs
vain, but eminently pernicious that it is fast
that it Is rapidly filling the land with rationnl
ism that it is DESTROYING the AUTHORITY Of the
Holy Scriptures that it lie educatinasSen who
prefix "Neverend" and affax I'D. D.SVo their
names, the more effectualIy to preach covert
inidelity to Christian ccnrrerations: that
instead Of the saving morality 81 the Gospel Of
res's p e
came old array of the natural vrtue "a or nualtia1
which pierced. like broken rseds, the siSlcs 81
all heather nations. And more than thiss
history cannot be compiled, travels written,
poetry, oratory or romance inflicted upon q
credufous public, without the stereotyped as
saults upon the doctrines, discipline, and his
torical life of their Church. From Walter
Scott to Peter Farley, and from Hume, Gibbon,
and Macauley, to the mechanical compilers Of
told q thousand times oftener than it is refuted
SO that the English language for the last two
centuries, NAV be said without exapperation
to have w aged war against the Catholic Church.
Indeed SO far as European history is consider
ed, the difficulty must ALWAYS be insurmount-
able since it would always be impossible for
the Catholic and the Protestant to accept the
same history Of the Reformation or Of tho
Papal See, or of the political social, or moral
events resulting from or in any degree connect
ed with those two great centres and controlling
causes. Who could write q political history Of
Christendom for the last three hundred years
and omit all mention of Luther and the Pope
And how is any school compendium of such
history to be devised for the use OF the Cath
Ole and Protestant child allkeI And, II his
tory be philosophy teaching by example shall
weexpeli 1t from our educational pianaitogeth-
err Or shall we obhge the Protestant chlId TO
study the Catholic version OF history ana rtcc
eersdf Certainly 1t Is quite Us just and polite
to oblige the one as the other. Shall the
" majority control TINS VINO gave the
majority any such power or r1ght with us
the majority controls the state and we
have seen that the State bescome usurper
when 1T attempts this! We are quise sure
that If the Catholics were the majority"
in the United States, and were to attempt
such an injustice, our Protestant breth-
rem would cry out against 1t, and appeal to the
wise and liberal examples OF Prussia and Eng
land, France and Austria! Now, 1s 1t not
always as unwise as 1t is unjust to make
minority taste the bitterness OF oppression
Men governed by the law OF divine charity
will bear it meekly, and seeE TO return gooG
for evil but all men are not dociie and major
tsaet;no yyoridt Ia IL not wiser and more