The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-01-16
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p" prouder position than that now occupied
| by Reginald Pole individual, or one more
degrading to the nation, can scarcely be i'm
| agined. OF all the assembly he aiore retained
has seat. Before him knelt the Queen of Eng
land and her husband, the son of the Emperor.
me nation, represented by the two Houses OF
Parliament, was on its knees, as it were, before
tlFe minister of b foreign potentate. Their
majesties, as individuals uncontanainated by
tne schism, We're the suppliants of a proud ma
tion soliciting for slavery-Pele proudly re-
marked: Much, indeed has this English ma
ton to thank the Almighty for recalling thesIa
To His 70 d.. Once again hath God given tokeu Z
of His special favor to the realm for as this
nation, in the time of the, primitive Church,
was the first to be called out of the darkness
of heathenisn, so now have they been the FIRST
/ to whom God has given grace TO repent of their
schism and if their repentance be ailacefc
| how will the angels rejoice at the conversion of
a single sinner, and triumph at the recovery Of
Queen returned to their THRONES. There Ia
| something approaching to the sublime in the
calmDess displayed on this occasion by Po1es
| He had learned in Italy the value of q coup Gs
theatre. He, remained sitting. He directed hts
| secretary to read the bulls and briefs by which
| he was commissioned to act, and by which he
was invested with tho power of plenipoten-
tiary. Probably only an abstract from the
| documents WAS read; but, even in this case,
some length of time must have interviewed be-
fore the legate himself spoke. During this
time he could contemplate the degradation Of
the nation, regarded by him as the only the
triumph of religion. The King and Queen
|
ed, for the absolution about TO be pronounced
| had no direct reference to them-bnt they weTo
on their knees. The Queen of England and
| the three estates of the realm knelt before Re-
solved q PROSTATE people,
| That the Cardin Il after this did not play 3
more important part IN the transactions Of
Mary's reign, and prevents t-as he wonld have
done--from being the reproach against Catho-
lcism that 1t is, was due to his failing health.
| He did what he could to restrain the burning
| of heretics and DR.. Hook shows that In this no
did not stand alone, for that the Cat thet bier
archy a body set themselves against the zeal
of the Parliament for the extirpation of heresy.
| On this subject the remarks of DR.. Hook will
| be read With great interest.
| $50 dear to our hearts, he remarks, al are
| the interests of commerce, that, within our
memory, Fauntleroy was hanged for forgery
| so vigilant were our fathers in Sheir zeal for
the rights of property, that many q starving
| fellow creature has been condemned to DEATH
for sheep stealing 80 sacred are the game laws,
that men are killed like vermin who cannot be
made to understand that the rights of proper
| ty extend over birds or beasts which they re-
! gard as being Wild We must mote ont the
same measures to Pole and to Mary: they felt
that the country would cease to BIO Christian
| land if men were permitted to exercise their
private Judgment in reli gious matters contrary
| to the decision of those councils which were
! regarded rs expressing the one voice of Chris
| tendon. We are, at the same time, to remem-
Der that, under the cruel code then in actual
existence, great as was the number of those
| who suffered in the cause of religion, 1T was
| nothing IN comparison Win Jnc NUMBER OF
! those consigned, without conjunction, to
death if possible more cruel, for political OF
! fences Hundreds were condemned for utter-
ing sentiments which we should now regard as
| patriotic but which were at that time treason
| able. For one person executed in this reign for
religion there were hundred butchered for
! treason that is, for a contention on behalf OF
| civil liberty against an iptolerable despotisIn
! We express disgust, and we are Justified IN
| doing SO, at the -unfeeling coarsenesS of Bon
ncr but surely we onght to feel equal disgust
~, rfsrrApn NlHgr
The Queen granted a general pardon to tho
! people Of Kent, after having caused five score
| of the most guilty to be executed The sem
teHce occurs in u letter from Renard To the Emf
Hperor. This is not said to palliate the laws
! extreme severity but to account for the fact
that neither Mary nor Pole nor any other
member of the Privy Council ever felt any COM
! FUNCTIONS visitings of conscience for having
| permitted the. law>to takG its course To exe-
| cute five score considered an act OF mercy
| and in sparing the other guilty persons Mary
felt entitled to call herself merctul; and really
merciful persons will admit the full force OF
these palliating and explanatory cireun-
stances, and, in my desire to do justice to all
persons, have alluded TO them more than
! once"
Of the provocation received too from the
! ''reformers," the candid dean leaves q very val
uable record, following in that the able and
| exhaustive work of the late librarian &c tho
Archbishop of Canterbury, DR.. Maitland, In his
Tolerant as we are said to have become in
! the 10Th century, we must admit that Things
were done by the soi-disaRt retormers OF tne
sixteenth century which no Government could
| tolerate, If it be the duty Of government to
| protect the weak against tho strong. WhetheE
i liberation ought 20 be extended to moo hlre9
/ to insult and rnaItreat tho clergy Of royal
chapel, might, IL we appeal to our experience
/ admit of q question; but every one wilt con-
cede the point, that il was time for the govern-
ment to Interfere when, at st. PauPs = Queen'a
chaplain was shot at and when ones who had
s been clerk of the council in the late Kings
4 reign, attempted himself and urged others 70
Il Concluded on eighth Pasel