The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-01-08

e9oe0tfng tntelli dee " The settin& fnS0E = n
religious m0vement. May IL become truly Il
inks France win aDuredly, II she rstnrns
to God, risc to higher and nobier position
In the order of His Providence than any
she has yet occupied. Nxen the Saturday
ReUie,o recognizes this: FL
"If the Revolutionary party will be
strengthened by the war, still moro will tho T
clerical party be strengthened by it. M.
dc Laveleye appears to US to be quite right
when he says that time of such calamity |
as France has trayersed will make men re- |
ligious The Kingdom of Heaven is for
the poor. In her afiliction France will turn
to thoughts of the other world. The Church
in France will come forward as the only
real unswerving Conservative force. The
Pope, it viii be said, has mathematical all
revolutionary aspirations, and the Pope is |
to be, dreaded, and Republcanism justly
boasts itself to be the final flower and out
come of modern Liberalism. This is not Il
fancy picture. English correspondents from
every part of France, quite accidentally
| and naturally, and without any thought of
acting in unison, keep sending reports of
| the extreme reluctance with which, even
| in their intense desire to serve France,
| Frenchmen come forward to serve the
Republic: They avow, in the freedom of
private conversation, that they think the
Reds are worse than the Prussians."
~ A wonderful change has come over the
spirit of the French armies. A few months
ago we read letters from military chaplains
klamenting the irreligous state of the French
troops. At the beginning of the war every
obstacle was put in the way of the Jesuits,
Dominicans, and others following the army.
The religious spirit of the Pontifcal
Zouaves seems to be the leaven which is
spreading throughout the army. OF the
Loire we have the following testimony
, from an Archdeacon and parish priest OF
the diocese of Orleans. He says:
"We must be grateful to Almighty God.
During the last six weeks the spirit of our
army has entirely changed. 1t is certain
, that the COMMUNICATIVE chief is q true
Christian, a man of unqualified firmness,
and of the most tender benevOlence. Au-
! relies de Palladine has over his soldiers the
1 greatest influence in point of discipline and
t religion. We now find our army calm,
1 submissive, brave, and ardent in battle and
submissive to us. A large number of the
. officers 60 to confession and communion,
r and chaplains do not suffice for the sol
n diers. The Commander in chief said four
d days ago to Mgr Dupanloup, Ny staff and
4 festival of All Saints, to prepare ourselves
= for the coming battle,' and when leaving
the Bishop he kDelt and asked his blessing
adding these words of faith leave will
It confidence, because on the day of battle
j. you will be between God and me on the
10 field.' M0nsignor has ordered for the day
e when the cannon will be heard the EXPOSE
IT ton of the Most Holy Sacrament in all TIT
y churches and chapels of Orleans"
y The Unirers, speaking of the new armie
n Of France, says:
) "They almost all evnce general.
So more Christian spirit. According to on
Is various sources of information there ar
ID only some battalions of the Partisan Mobile
r. who are an exception. And even here tn
'r priests are admitted more freely and ar
l. listened to, and there is a sensible mora
t. and religious Improvement"
t. The Messenger du Sdcre CtBur for Decem
IL, Der contains q most interesting letter from
O. the Pere de Boylesve, who has been acting
D. as chaplain to the Pontifcal Zouaves, ant
those who join them in the College of Saint
} CrOix, near LIE Mans:
g. "The brave soldiers have the piety o
~ fervent Christians. They continually ar
II rive, saying, Il was not born for sodie
~ but France, and with France religion itsel
If is in danger: come, therefore, with en-
"a thusiasm to accomplish duty These
~ writes the Pere de Boylesve, are the mos
"a determined soldiers. If France is to b
re- saved it must be by men animated lik
mr. duty. Such is my conviction. But thin
" France will not be saved till she has recog
so nized the necessity of the extirpation {
n blasphemy, especially the blasphemy
a. bad books, of the observance OF the Sur
IF day, and of a general protest against til
y. invasion. of Rome. Let protestations h
formed in every part of the country, signe
IN, by 300 or 400 in each place. Let each vi
e. lage make its protest. These partial pt
he Jiscites make q formidable whole."
ed We have received letters from Britain
tie which speak of the churches full of wo
'as slippers and the same kind of Intelligent
Nv. reaches us from other parts of France. b.
of whether France has yet drunk the chal
Of of humiliation and suffering that is to Sal
use her. we know not. THERE are still iniqu
re- ties that have to be atoned for and wipe
Mt, out; such as these the Messenger of til
in month refers to, viz: Marie near Pari
up under the influence of fanatical infde
red absolutely closing a church because t
RS, soldiers thronsed into it to say their pra
ON ers; the recent removal by the revol
tionary Government of the statue of VI
We taire in Paris to a still Z" more honorat
op- position;'' the iniquities that Garibal
ate has been allowed to commit, stabling
ess horses in the Cathedral of Autun and pu
err fishing an incendiary proclamation agar
ect, the the clergy; the letter of the Fren
hat Minister congratulating Victor Emman.
: of on the deliuerance Of Rome" and
me- " conservation of Italian unity."-Iablet.
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