The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-05-15
CHRONICLE or THE COUNCIL.

The holy Father has addressed the fol-
lowing brief to certain Can0ns of the Ca
thedral Church Of Montpelier and other
priests of that diocese, in reply to their
recent profession of faith in the prerOpatiye
of the Roman Pontiff.
Dear Sons, Health and Apostolic Bene-
diction. -
eve rejoice, beloved sons, not only that
You are most piously affected towards this
Holy See and it's divine prerogatives, but
that your devotion is openly professed with
such freedom and firmness-ea Abertate &C
Notwithstanding thereby that your af-
lection towards us proceeds from the depth
of your heart. For this reason we accept
your expression of it with great joy and
satisfaction, and we exhOrt you that the
more you perceive this excellent disposition
of your souls, which, moreover, is common
to all the faithful, to be impugned and as
saulted by Q zeal which is not according to
knowledge, the more firmly you should re-
iterate that the faith of Peter is that Rock
upon which the Lord has built His Church
We supplicate for you the abundant
succors Of divine grace, and as as a presage
of these gifts and q pledge of our paternal
goodwill, We give you most heartily our
Apostolic benediction.
"Given at Rome, at st. Peters, the 23d
of March, 1870, in the 24th year of our
Pontificate. Opus TX, POPE"
NO OO1ftte"sNettsOH ~ lTOeTOt Journals
We published last week the official con-
demnation of certain Liberal Catholic
journals which appeared in the Giornale di
Roma. ASthe sentence was expressly di-
rected against those who outrage the ma
.jo,ity Of the bishops in the Vatican Coun-
Gil, it was impossible to doubt against what
Journals it was leveled., Yet the Roman
coolly informs it's readers on the 10Th, not
only that +" the note of the Holy Father
was aimed at M. VeuillOt, whose article in
the Univers and s1fonde," in the latter of
which he never writes q line, "have been
so violent that even the Infallibilist French
Bishops have complained of them" but
that as no one can see the application to
the French editor" which is extremely
probable, "the Holy Father has found it
necessary to say to his household the
article alludes to Veuillot.'" We recon-
mend this eloquent gentlemen not to put
his own nonsense henceforth into the mouth
OF the Holy Father. A letter from Rome
in the Unita Cattolica says more nationally {:
"The journals specially condemned in this
pOte are those which represent the party of
Liberal Catholicism Francois, the Ga
sette de France, the AVenir Catholigue the
MOniteatr and the France"
Condemnation Of N. Gratyy.-Two Greek
Prelates have written to the Bishop of
Strasbourg to announce their adhesion to
upon M. Crafty. al cherish the hope,n
says Mgr. Marango, Bishop of Tenos and
Mycone, "that the condemnation pro-
nounced by SO many bishops would have
induced this erring son to retrace his
steps and take his place once more among
the defenders of the Church. But in pres,
ence of the scandalous obstinacy of this
writer, who ceases not to forge weapons for
the enemies of the Church, attributing to
himself mission which he neither has nor
could have received, think it my DUTY
ETC., etc.
II adhere, with all my heart" writes
Mgr. Albert, Bishop of SYRIA, and Apos-
tolic Delegate of Greece, to your admirable
Pastoral of the 10Th Of February, and I
profit by this occasion to renew tile testi-
mony Of my faith and that of my clergy,
both in my diocese and in the apostolic
delegation of Greece, in the infallibility of
the Roman Pontiff speaking er cathedra.
In questions of faith and morals. Is it not
surprising that any Catholics can close
their eyes against the brilliant light of that
truth, SO clearly set forth in these words.
among others, of the Gospel: Ihaue praued
for thee that thy faith fail mott 1t was The
prayer of Him who has always been heard
by His heavenly Father: Eraunditus zro
suG reuerentia." -
The Domiaicians and the De,inition.-We
read in the Bien Public of the 18th inst.
that sixteen bishops of the Dominican Or
der, headed by Cardinal Guidi, and the
Pere Jandel, General of the Order. have
forwarded to the Comaeission de Eide a col
lectlve vote on the schema on infallibility.
They declare that this doctrine has always
been held by their Order and by st. Thomas
Aqu1nas, and that they are ready, like St.
AlPhonsus, "to lay down their lives for it,"