The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-11-20
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
Kew ORLEANS. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 30 1879.

The Rev. Father Jacobs, G. So. R., who r
For many years was connected with the
Redemptorist Church in this city, delivered :
a series of three lectures in Limerick, on
the temporal power of the Pope, before {
one of the most crowded assemblies that
has ever been seen I'M the churches OF that
city. We subjoin the concluding portion
The eighteenth century came, and wltR
it ratiOnalism in its very worst ana most
appalling form !; the foodgates OF inquiry
we're let loose; there was nothing too gross,
too atheistic, too wicked. too vllainous,
for the greed of the inHdel propapators of
the new system, which saw it's advocates
and disseminators in the Voltaires, the Di-
d rots, the d'Aiemberts, the encyclopedias
of the revolutionary regime winch they es-
Aahiished. Affairs were OverthrOwn, crowns
were spoliated and kicked in the dust in
the streets of Paris, the worst excesses OF
rapine aud murder were perPetrateo. ne
goddess OF reason was installed On the de-
serted affairs of the Living God and wor-
shipped where the Eternal Being had been
set aside and blasphemed, and the whole
force of hell appeared directed against the
Church and its ministers. Napoleon -
scourged the system and its abettors, ana
replaced Catholicity in its former position
IN the cities and churches of France; he
applied vigorous hand to the eradication
of abuses, aud would that false ambition
had not driven him into wrong AnO danger
Gus excuses! He quarreled with the Holy
See. he arrested Plus VII. in his own pal
ace and made prisoners of the lllustrious
Pontiff; but the Pope returned IN JOY tn
his palace. The excommunicatlon whicn
he hurled at Napoleon, though laughed 10
acorn by him who was ut the head OF count
less lecions of armed men, was felt at
length in the total humiliation and ruin OF
the potentate whose nod was law-who
gave kings to Europe He knocked hls
ali ofAr INF nj
fonr hundred thousand soldiers with which
he in vaded Russia, few of them returned ;
they dropped dead amid the SHOWS OF a
hostile climate, bereft of every resource,
and he who was the worlds ruler lot sea-
son became the exile of the barren rock OF
St. Helena, where after few years he ex-
.,ired. beaueathing q lesson to those who
came after him., which lesson, however
seens pot to have been remembered. Ihen
we have come at last to the nineteenth
.centnry. to the times in whichcwe live, and
of which we are witnesses. All the powers
of earth and hell combined have been ie
loose in this our own age OF the worid
against the Church and the Papacy. Heresy
liberalism, revolution, Garibaldlsm, coun
.xersigps, secret soceties, consplracles, ma
chinations. Day after day We see thei
operations; hour after hour We near o
their doings; murder, rapine, every enor
nifty in the streets of Rome, every where
NaDoleon III. would have done we'll had h
left the Holy Father alone; but he too RAJ
foul of the Reck; he forgot the loyal dut
which he owed to the Pope as the oldes
son OF the Church; the example OF Pepin
of Clovis, of Charlemagne, of the sainte
Louis was not followed by him-he ha
fallen. fallen irretrievably; and there ca
Gbe very little doubt from the course he to
is pursuing that Victor Emmanuel who ha
en- :ircled the Eternal City with his sieg
cannon, and laid violent hands on til
patrimnry of ST.. Peter, will 500
smash hir Lead, and become Laughing
stock 10 tie nations of the earth, an on
cast and !. scorn. Oh IT Is saio in NJ e1
the terrible calamity has befallen the 81
of Peter. They say that our Holy Fath'
is the last of the seyenty-two Popes WI
have been martyred, exiled or imRIlsone
the promises of Christ that it cannot b
We have the teachings of history for loI
uninterrupted series OF ages that IL cam
be- Henke, a German Protestant write
says. " Catholics believe in the necessity
the Primacy on account of the necessity
unity" History points to the fact tn
the Popedom is sure to outlive all the 81
pires Of the world, the old and new ALL
The Rev. Father went on to say that t
disturbing revolutionaries of our days 9
not undeceived as to their lmpoten'
Only q few years ago a crowd of turbolt
miscreants, among whom was cousin
Napoleon III, after having betrayed
most liberal of sovereigus, and obliged b
to fiy for his life, assembled upon the ca
-&ol and cried ont with satanic JOY, ST
republic is raised in Rome upon the ru
of the throne Of the Pope, which the vo
of Europe, the curses of all civilized p
pie, and the spirit of the Gospel hi
-crumbled in the dust" Rash ana sacr'
gious men ! the curses of civilized PEG
fell on you, and the whole world ute
"a cry of horror at your hlasphemy. t.
TX. retuaned to Rome like Plus VII. ami
the applause of Christendom; and in b
and after, in q long line of illustrious @
cessors, will continue unchanged. In
structaole, the Papacy.
thanks to the Invisible Divine Head OF
Church, who has given us Plus TX, "
though meek like q lamb, but firm like
rock upon which the Church is places
God, Is able to make even his crow
enemies tremble with his heroic mon pt
mas" They say they shall fight
Lamb" but the Lamb will prevail agal
the wolves, for the power of the Lam
established on indeetructabte foundatio
and the gates of hell shall not pgeratt aga
st. Seventy-two Popes have been a
tyred, exiled, imprisoned; but the Chr
lives, the Papacy lives, the authNit!
both is acknowledged all over the w
world. Plus TX. forsees what will com
pass Hence it is that in the midst OF
the dangers that encompass him ne is G.
Tnsolute. confident. He has said Most t
Mary. whose Immaculate Conception
,roDnloated will help him, "God 10