The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-30
Moknl1g Star and Catholi& Messenger,
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Political Suplneness Or Catholics.
The coursS vents in Europe, particu
AIRY g It affsqts Catholic, interests il we
1 calculated TO r0use them from an apathy a
anAceountAbls - Il ID criminal. Catholi
counfFie present the anomalous condition
snas While the people are thoroughly Catho
Ac, 2 few political tricksters goverti in tb
interests OF infdelity to the great detri
ment Il not to the present destruction O
the Church. It will be we'll, now that
CLIMAX has been reached, if o consideration
Ct tn discreditable state of things hassh
effect Of producing remedy. Here, TO
Instance, are Italy, Austria and Spain
thoroughly Catholic countries, with nobl
monuments in every direction testifying t,
the niety, charity and learning of success
sive generations, with every thing appa
rently i'm their favor, the Catholic religion
the acknowledged State religion of til,
country, the vast majority of all classe,
devOtedly attached to the Church-ye,
Mhht spectacle is presented to us One
after another these three great Catholic
countries have allowed themselves to fall
into the hands of a small minority of un.
|, scrupulous, bold, bad men, who by shee,
dint 81 brazen impudence and Ubiquitous
J audacity, haEs forced themselves to the
'front.' riding rough shod over everything
Tho Stands in the way of their schemes of
spolati9n and license, outraging every
sense of religion, even Of common decency,
! ~ - IN Un bril- b 4 lo II
religion end morals, and tending to under
mine the faith of the people, and that
OF their 0ehidren. The party, or what
ought to be tho party OF order and religion,
has not 90 right on their side, in the
shape OF sfgraet and glorious cause, but
they haves" might also, in what ought to
be, and what would be, if properly worked,
On overwhelming majority. How is it,
then, that hardly voice is heard protest.
ing against these foul deedsf The ex-
PLANTATION is found in the universal political
apathy and supineness of Catholics. Upon
this subject the London Weekly Register
has some well matursd thoughts. We rail,
says this journal, at the abuse and irreli-
gious doing of Victor Emmanuel and his
government, of the revolutionary crew in
Spain, andof the Jews and Protestants at
the head of affairs in Austria. But how
came these men to be what they aref Who
after all are equally responsible with them
for their work Z If the well-diposed por-
ton of the population had but done their
duty and made themselves heard, ~, and
felt too, if need be, instead of Gas we will |
charitably supposed simply trusting to
Pfovidence-forgetting the latter part of
anpld adage that Providence helps those
that help themselves-had the strong Ca
thdic feeling Inherent in the people, and
onk wanting rousing, been properly
N41ght to bear, would it have been pos !
PIE for these men to have occupied the
Poeitions theysnow hold, to have dared to
acSes they have daredf The Emperor of
Az ria, agafn, would have been but too
gls to have acted differently from the
ma4%er in which he unfortunately has act
ed he had been backed up, as he ought
s Re been, by loudly expressed. Ca !
tho opinion such as we speak Of The 1
TALL Rome into the hands of Victor En- t
maa4# will surely, it is to be hoped, be
the I'D STRAW, and no light straw either, {
that feake the cancels back, will rouse
the H4ignation of every Catholic worthy /
OF I'D hane, and will be looked upon by Il
one al all az a personal insult. We are
gla2 ID see that Catholics every where are t
alits b the great principles at stake. In b
BeIiuzD, the right note has been struck, as
wiz ID seen by an extract in another v
col1ns of the STAR. England and Ireland ii
are taking preliminary measures to give il
expreseion to Catholic sentiment. And the "
niahSe taken by the parishes of New Or a
eans lows that in our own country Ca
;holic&Rre fully alive to the great princi r.
,les &volved. This is no mere local a
luestan, to be decided in the interests of n
lpsta ts-whether kings or national ii
aobss Every Catholic, wherever his abode, il
3 wildly interested, and should join his
Ofcesn the universal acclaim which con- il
emDs and reprobates interference with Of
be cred rights of his Church and its C.
ont&, W
ANfnlly the increase throughout England. 1t is "
slffful, says the LondontGfmes, to what an extent
actual infantcide prevails among We reported, az