The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-02-20
FOREIGN CATHOLIC u4kr1Iiaxxcr.

: 1oMEi Jan, l4.=Ihe Council sat again O
saturday last, and the Mass of the Holy Ghos
was celebrated in the Aula by Mgr. Ledochow
. | SKI, Archbishop of Gnesen and Posen. TIL
Cardinal President announced to the Assembl.
. Cardinal Bizzarri President of the Deputatiol
OF the Congregation of Regular Orders. Al
yet IT is Understood that the real BUSINESS O.
the Council has scarcely commenced, and thai
, the preliminaries are the only matters which
have as yet come before the Fathers. The dis
| casslon was resumed on Monday in the Aula
!, bishop of Quito. Eight Bishops spoke, the
session lasting till one in the afternoon. The
liberty Of discussion is considered an exaggera-
lion 81 aelicacy on the part Of the President
out IL ID the Pope's express viii and desire that
every Bishop should have the most complete
Liberty. 1t is beginning to be thought that the
grave matters before the Council may compel
second years session. In this case the Bish-
ops within an easy distance of Rome will re-
celve permission to return temporarily to their
dioceses, and those from far countries will re-
main In the neighbOrhOOd of Rome for the hot
months. Some of the initiated, however, are
of the opinion that the closing TIE Deann will
be sung before ST. Peters. 1t is only now that
preliminary "schemata" occupied it's entire at
tention during the early sittings. Another
sitting will take place on Friday. The Pope
received more than two Thousand foreigners on
Sunday in public audience. He addressed them
in most forcible and moving Allocution, of
which there was no installing the sense. He
warned them against intellectual pride, and
against the error of believing that the Church
could reconcile herself with the maxims of
modern philosophy, or the political theories
w, which strike at the root of her Independence
The whole Assembly, mainly composed of
French Catholics, responded with the most
thusiastic cheers, and cries of ''Vive Pie TX"
The pressure of the crowd on the Pope was at
one moment almost too great for his strength.
| Every one sought to touch him, were it but the
| hem of his cassOck, and the scene recalled the
crowd of faithful followers of Our Divine Lord
when His disciples strove to moderate the
loving importantly of the multitude. Mgr.
Berteaud, Bishop of Tulle. preached at ST. An
drea della Valle yesterday, and spoke of the
ed by all Christians. IN ny a que DIES niais que
ny croient pas"-a phrase which evidently re-
ceived a perfect assent from the assembly,
among whom were a number of French, Swiss,
and Missionary Bishops. The letters received
recently from Jerusalem speak of the rejoicings
on the day of the opening of the Council as
most general. The Franciscan Monastery, the
Convent of the Danes de Sion, and the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre, were Illuminated as
well as all the houses occupied by Latins
Catholic Orientals. The Emperor of Austria
has decorated.the Patriarch of Jerusalem, now
in Rome, in memory of his visit, and the i'm
preston giving by his conduct there ia most
edfying, and the same may be said of that of
the Empress in Rome. Her Majesty never goes
out for exercise or to visit the monuments in
Rome, without beginning and ending her ex-
cursion by a visit to the Adorable Sacrament.
The Tenth General Congregation was held in
the Vatican Basilica on the 14th. Mass was
said by Mgr. Limberti Archbishop of Florence.
The Fathers were then invited by the Cardinal
President to proceed to the election of the Com
mission of Missions and Oriental Rites, which
will be presided over by Cardinal Barnabo,
Project of Propaganda While the votes were
being collected in baskets by the secretaries of
the Council. two new sckemata relating to the
subject of Ecclesiastical Discipline were dis
tributed to the Fathers. The discussion which |
had previously occupied the attention of the
to the Commission de Eide. The first speakers
on the question of Discipline were Cardinal
Schwarzenberg, Archbishop of Prague; Cardi- |
nal NJ Matthew. ATchbishoP Of Besaneon Mgr
Simon, Archbishop Primate of Gran, and Mgr. |
Monson Martins, Archbishop of Grenada. |
The discussion was to be resumed the follow |
ing day.
We have an interesting account from one of !
our correspondents of the religious services in |
the Church of st. Andrea della Vale, in which |
SO many illustrious prelates of all nations have
taken part. The first Mass at half past |
five, followed by an Italian sermon at six, after
which Benediction of the Most Holy Sacrament |
was given. There was High Mass at nine cele- |
brated according to the Latin, and again at
ten, according to one of the Oriental Rites. OF
the latter we are told that " the language, the
these Eastern prelates, with their flowing
boards, places us in the presence of st. Cyril,
st. Athanasius St. Chrysestom, and attract
a crowd of attentive strangers of various ma
tionaltes, who recognize, under external diff
ferences of form, that unchanging identity of
faith which unites in one Body, and under one
HSau, Jnc members or all the Churches scat
tered throughout the world" At eleven there
was sermon in English, German, or Spanish,
and at two in French. At half-past five crowds
might be seen in all the neishboring Pazzas,
gathered around preachers, Sregliarini-"acak-
ene's"-who know how to touch the heart,
though they follow another model than the
Orations delivered in the Church
of st. Andrea della Vale. AS to the latter, we
are assured that any passage bearing upon the
great questions before the Council is always
heard with deep emotion. The French Bishop
of Tulle was listened to with breathless inter
est when he reproved, in language of great ele-
walton, the pusillanimity of those who affect to
npprehend danger from the expected definitions ,
of the Council. Why, he asked, did the Babe
Of Bethlehem come at the time and in the man
ner He did! Surely neither the moment nor
the place were "opportune." His doctrines, as
The world thought, were still more 'inoppor-
nne." And the world crucitied its Saviour.
now, as then, is in darkness. Its great want is
light. Let then the Church give it light, and a
he world will live. "pirent les dn,es," he adj 1
led, with an energy which stirred every heart, ,
'perissent les eyreurst'
The Bishop of Poiters preached the 14th
% an Immense congregation. The successor of
1t. Hilary, it was fitting he should preach on
1t. Hilary's day. The sermon is said to have
Produced a profound impression, and one nearer
avs of it: at was more than a sermon, it was | Y
IN event" As it will be printed immediately
of all nations will be able to profit ,
~ it. But even the Bishop of Poitiers, whose
name is dear to all Christians did not surpass
mother illustrious Prelate, who, although q
swiss, has been called the> Chrysostom of the n
french pulpit The DISCOURSE of Mgr Mermil- '
III oh Of unhr ov,6 Nod i,,No .~cn