The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-02
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Svw ORLEANS. SUNDAY. JULY g. 1871.
FROM ROME.


FROM ROME.
ROME, June Sd, ls71.-The transfer Of
the capital becomes more and more prob.
lematical, and from silent suffering the Ro-
mans are now passing to complaints. The
whom the new state of things inaugurated
here since the Goth of September has
brought ruin and misery. Under the pa
ternal Government of Plus TX. this large
class had always abundance of work and
were enabled to keep themselves and their
Liberal papers have stated their case,
things are completely changed. All other
trading classes are in equal straits.
An immense number of auctions have
been held by parties who had apartments
to let to strangers, as they see no pros
pect of covering their expenses.
Conviction grows deeper every day that
some bad times are before us, and many
have thei: arrangements made and trunks
ready for an instantaneous departure.
Every day the Italian Government is
showing more and more its special aver
sion to the Catholic Church. Lately at
Florence it coufscated the Church OF the
Nuns and Chapter, aud handed it over to
Protestants. 1t did the same, after ex-
pelling the nuns, with a building adjoining
the Carmine.
According to the Ga=este, of Turin, the
is not to be extended to Rome for the pres
emit. This decision of retarding a project
which might give rise to serious embarrass-
ment to the Government was come to in q
Cabinet Council held come time since in
Florence. 1t also appears from one well up
in Sella's plans, chat the notification from
the Intepdant of Finances has in view, be-
sides the immediate end of taxing the re-
ligious and charitable Institutions, that of
procuring for future use rent roll on which
to calculate the amount of com pensatiOn to
be granted by his benign Government to
those institutions whenever the menaced
confiscation will be decreed and put into
execution.
Notwithstanding this intended delay for
q general confiscation, the Government
has come t. the full determination of
Immediately expropriating all the con-
table institutions, ETC., situated on the Via
Del Quirinale and Via Della Porta Pia, in
order to place there, defnitively, the differ
emit Ministries and other public Offices
whichssas yet have only provisional seats.
The Italian Government, against all
ideas of justice, have resolved, it appears,
not to pay the pensions to the officers of
the ex-Papal army as long as the present
uncertain state of things exists.
On the very day that all the Italian Min
listers signed the laws of the Papal Guaran-
tees, one of them, Corrente, Minister of
Der of Deputies project for the suppress
sion of the Chair of Theology in the Uni
versities of the State. Besides this, the
catechism is suppressed in all the lyceums
and public schools. Aud yet we hear of
guarantees to religion, all they would do,
Il the Pope would only have sense and
listen to them, until one absolutely won
ders are they really blind or only prete nd
ing.
On the 22d of May, while the faithful of
Bologna were celebrating, in the largest
church in the world cree ed in his honor,
the Feast of st. PetroniO, the founder and
Patron of their city, the liberal corpora
ton sent their Vandals to demOlish the
monumental statue of that Saint which
stood at the foot of the historical tower of
the Assinel,i--o statue which the corpora
ton of any other city would have
been at pains to preserve, as forming from
time immemorial one of the objects to be
seen in Bologna but to trample on the re-
hgiOus feelings of the devOut CathOlics,
these acts, worthy of the Communists of
Paris, are enacted by their sectarian gov
ernOrs. --a--.--
Pentecost Sunday was chosen here by
our T.9eneratOrs TO perpetrate another
act of Vandalism nearly similar to that
committed at the Roman College In the
early part ut the year. On the morning OF
the above Feast several wOrkmen we're en-
ployed at the capitol, effacing, with chisel
ana maliet, the ancient arms of the two
Pontiffs which were incised on marble at
the two sides of the facade of the senate
rial palace.
One Of the Revolutionary journals here,
the Cdptt0le, the fret which showed Gym
pathy with the Commune of Paris, in one
OF It's tate numbers has the following: "At
the Vatican they are discouraged; the late
news from Paris, instead of inspiring its
Prisoners with courage, have confused
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