The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-30
ne Protest.

4 Win JOY thatfwe always chrOnicI,
any demonstration made In this city, i,
favor of the Pope. Our people are neve
called on in vain upon such occasions: lib,
neartiness and loyalty with which they're
spond Is subject of profound pleasure tt
all VINO have the good Of religion AND
morality at heart. Last SUNDAY evening
IA 'ne various parishes of New Orleans
anu vicinity, the Catholic population as
Senoied In vast numbers to express their
erieI at the misfortune which has lately
overwhelmed the Church in the-violent
conquest of the Papal States. Though many
thousands of miles away from the scene of
events, our people are not the less afflicted
at anything which lessons the independent
action OF the Church and interferes with
the perfection of it's disciplipe. Few of our
citizens expect ever to see Rome, yet they
feel the blow which deprives them of a
capital, considering the Church as a Chris
tan Republic.
This interest, this sorroYing sympathy,
has found dignified and earnest expression
an The outspoken demonstrations of last
sunday. Our people have heartily en-
dorsed the able and pious protest recon.
mended to them by the Catholic committee
ana nave found spokesman to express their
sentiments in eloquent and fervid language.
Ihls protest cannot Brighten the weapons
from the hands of the Italian soldiery, but
II mounts to heaven as the prayer of a
stricken people. 1t goes abroad among
men to convict the impious of his impiety
and the slanderer of his falsehood. 1t can
not now be said that Republican Catholics
consider the loss of the temporal mower as |
blessing In disguise or are opposed to the
sovereignty of the Pope. All the pains that
nave been taken, and a hundred fold more.
would be we'll applied if they had no fur
Their effect than to save the paternal heart of
our Holy Father from the painful suspicion
that American Catholics had so little intel
igence and SO little zeal.
Rome is the see of Peter and the R;sbon
II Rome must always be Pope. 1t is idle
therefore to think that the Pope can re-
move thence unless forced to do so. AS
ong as there is no danger of life or liberty,
s long as he would be as free there as
Elsewhere to fulfill the sacred functions of
lis Office, he can have no reason and no
=
Reuse to be permanently absent from his
diocese. Instead therefore of recommend
ng Malta or Ireland or the United States
'r bis residence, all Catholics would do
etter to join him in a dignified protest =
yalnst the usurpations of audacious hu =
ian power and in an humble submission :,
the trials which loving Providence :,
'nds on all for their own good. "
Our protest is by no means without hope. ::
e know that the Almighty is the great :.
sposer of events. In his good time he =.
n re-establish Papal Independence by the :,
ost natural means apparently, without -
g sem lance even of an interference on
8 part. This very scandal will probably ~
suit in the conversion of several nations.
nvinced by the proofs of divinity which p'
3 Church shall give in her captivity al
unaided by any secular arm. When oi
shall again, through wars and en-
bulations, be purged of its heresies, i'm la
ralities and pride, it may again be found er'
rthy to see its chief independent and it's ny
,ital free. OF