The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-11-26
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
INV ORLEANS. SUNDAY. NCvEHBEh 20. 'oH
LETTER FROM PAIR HAVEN, CONN.

FAIR HAVEN, coNN., Nov. IL, 1871.
xs,tor Morning Star and Catholic Messenger;
Dear Sir-You will, I doubt not, be somewhat
surnrised that the enclosed article emanates
from New England parsonage and d is the pro
s siaias a. q is natural the triumph Of
branch of the Church militant, 1t IL yet I'M
possible not to acknowledge that in tho pres
mot between rival sovereigns, but between the
Catholic Church-reprcsentativ OF Chrstiahi-
ty-on the one side, and Atheism and Coui"u-
1ism on the other.
Trusting you will deem the enclosed worthy
q place in your paper, which read with great
pleasure last winter in New Orleans, am
very respectfully, yours, '' !" a.
"Not This Man, But Barabbas
The struggles of right against wrong; o!
truth against falsehood, OF iniidei'ty again sM
faith, began nthe Garden OF Eden Inc aifn
ing ear of weak humanity whispered, nc snail
not surely die ye shall be as gods, know.
lug good and evil" The present power pow 10. o,
the unseen Deity 1t was SO glorious 70 n@ld
ones own destiny, to be law unto oneself.
ITO know" We can imagine the struggle IN
the yyomaus soul, the triumph of doubt, result
Of free.thinking, the acceptance of her own
will ms the law of her life, and then-alas! the
legitimate fruit-sn, death: Is the story old a.
paradise, in each mans bosom is re-enacted
the drama of Eden. The cry OF the law-6reak-
ing populace, hurrying the sinless to Ga.vaay'
but Barabbas." Not right, but wrong. not
law, but anarchy, not government, but Ia COM
ntane. 80.
template the situation of affairs in Rome with
out shrinking appalled, at the possible result OF
the contest between the Pope and the Italian
Government. Between Pope and King today
Rather between Christianity and 1nfidelity.
Who raised the cry. :" United Italy, with
Rome for its capital" Tnfidels and Radicals
-s,,sf fort hnr Lon
When was heard tho Wild maddening shout,
"To Rome! To Rome" ringing from the noun
tains to tho seal Twas ut the very season
when bruta,zea men and insane women were,
= in the name of La Commune, perpetrat,ng in
the capital of Catholic France deeds which,
mako our flesh creep with horror: On the I'd
The disaster of Sedan made Napoleon n pris.
oner, and anarchy ruled in tho great cities OF
France. French troops Were recalled from
Rome, and the Holy-F Father left to the mercy
of men, who had not learned the first lesson of
the law Of love.
Tho head of tho Catholic Church, man who
represents the interests of two hundred mil
lions of souls sits n prisoner in his own palace.
A prisoner, yet resolutely defying tho invaders
The oldest sovereign in Europe, can the Pope
patiently see himself stripped of his posses
sions by stripping in rcynltyi Can the
Sovereien -Pontiff become vassal of Italy
The Italian Government declared " all political
authority Of the Pope abolished, and will re-
main co." France in charity offers the Holy
Father Castle Pau as his future home, and
Europe looks tamey on, not stirring for his
rescue, What means thisY T. The spirit of inf
deity has created the International-the law
hating nature of which institution is evinced
in the fearful acts of La Comnlanc-and where
had these ideasbirth {? In Germany, the land
of freethinkers, of intitlels, of atheists-the
land in which our reformation was born, but
which has long since lost the spirit of Luther,
who, cGnging fast hold OF that which was
good, attacked only the abuses, man. hegotten,
which had crept into the God-iesigned church.
Now the war-car is not Reformation but anaihi-
lation. Christianity, say they, has done its
work, lot us in it's stead have the teaching of
philosophy and reason: NOT TINS man. but
Barabbas."
Protestant Christians with unusual unani-
nifty, rejoice in these sacrilesious outragcs
upon the Representative of the Catholic Church,
by the subversion of whose authority they
- hope to see dreaded power crushed, and they
sincerely trust that from the ruin of the Roman
Catholic Church Twill be born purer creed.
But it seems to me we do not fully realize the
situation. Are we Protestants ready to accept
the horrors of Communism in France. Do we
authorize, in the name of our Christ, the mas
sacre of priests and nuns, the spoliaton of
monasteries and the desecration of churchesf
Verify, no. There is as much need of crusade
of Gods people to-day ever seemed to be
needed to rescue the Holy sepulchre.
,s 1naon al n shs 40 r.h a 9s
world to which the monuments of Rome be-
long Even Theirs admits that to be "inde-
pendent the Pope must have temporal sove-
reignty." What is to be donei 1t is time
Christendom took some action in the matter.
Will it not be possible for council of nations
to be assembled, and cede TO the Holy Father
the Leonine City, with it's dependencies, aud
let the revenues of the Pontif como from the
loving contributions of his widely scattered
subjects. During past ages to him, in his re-
preventative capacity, from Europe, America
Asia and benighted Africa, wherever-even in
the islands of the seattle cross has been
ried and the story of Jesus told, offerings have
been sent, the gold, frankincense and nyrrh of
Christian hearts-and he is but the Masters
steward, to whom has been spoken the com
mand, Occupy till come"
Let the nations to it, this independence
is secured. As measure of policy as well as
duty, since, in case the Holy Father, as once
before in the history of the Pontfcate, leaves
his home to become n resident of France, the
nation whose hospitality thus secures the
alliance of the sovereign of two hundred mil
lions of souls, may dictate terms to tho world.
J. II. A.
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