The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-05-21
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VOLUM ".
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY. MAY 81. Io7l.
FROM ROME.

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FROM ROME.
ROME, April 23-I related in my las
how some of our Liberal papers, in thei
anxiety to pander to the wishes of thei
party, wero publish ing rumors of tn
Pope's severe illness, in spite of the con
tradictions of hundreds of people who ha,
seen him and rejoiced in his perfect health
These mendacio1s journals have gone on
their daily bulletins growing worse and
worse. "He is in his agony :" and tn,
worst Is that the criers, to make their jour
nails sell, always scream out something
highly sensational "a thing rarely found in
the Paper3 That he is dead and mascoste
time, the Holy Father continues in the
very best possible health, receiving hun
dreds daily and many addresses. One
!ateiy presented was peculiarly affecting
1t was got up by some poor people here,
who were received in special audience by
Him who never forgot He was the Father
of the poor, and though for the first time
IN their lives they found His palace gates
closed before them, once they passed them
they found the heart of Plus TX. as open
as ever. They expressed their love and
sorrow for his suffering, and offered him a
collection made among themselves and
other poor people amounting to l6O francs,
or f6 Is. These are the true plebiscites Of
nation. They are in the hands of Plus
IN. What can Victor Emmanuel show in
comparisonf Next week an important,
reputation from Gratry is expected. 1t is
said pressing invitation from the inhabi-
tants Of Prague has been sent that if the
Holy Father wishes to leave Rome he
should take up his residence there.
:. Ihe Buon Sense, one of our best Catho-
TIC Journals, in answer to lying article in
one OF the Liberal papers, states, on the
authority of official documents, that pre-
yious to the invasion of the Pontifical
States in 1860, the Papal finances were in a
most prosperous condition, notwithstand-
ing that the Government had had to buy in
an the paper currency put in circulation by
the Revolutionary triumvirate of lsas. 1t
proves this statement by showing that in the
Papal Budget of 1858 there was an expen-
elture OF l4,52O, OBI scudi leach scudi is S
!rapcs S. centimee) against Ia ,662 ,OS7 |
scudi received. We doubt much if united |
Italy will ever see her finances in such !
prosperous condition her Ministers are at |
the present moment at their wits ends how |
to devise some means of covering their de-
hclts, and meeting current expenses.
The administration of justice under the
Papal regime has often been the favorite
theme OF the correspondents of the revo-
lutionary and Protestant Press of Europe,
VINO spared no pains to paint it under the
most nnfavorable light, and to show how
badly it contrasted with that of the rest of
40 Shinsuia unuer the sway OF Cn0 Oal"
antuomo sent you lately the increase of
crime in the Peninsula. l have now be-
lore me the statistics of the administration
of penal justice in the regenerated king
dom of Italy, lately published by order of
the Minister of Justice, and Idefy any one
20 prove that at any period the same
branch of the Papal Administration pre-
sented so sad picture as is shown by this
report. And were the police officials as |
vlgilant and active as they ought to be,
these figures, already so serious, would q
only represent one-fourth of the crimes ,!
in the provinces which remain l
unknown and defy justice. :
POSSIBLY the best guarantee we have had u
las been the fact that lately q patrol on L
hight service arrested an individual who d
Produced for their delectation certificate '
70 rom Garibaldi, signed by his own hand.
L hey not regarding this as sufficient guar
lntee for the orderly behavior and honesty .
u their prisoner, insisted on conducting I
Inn before the authorities. - /
In Holy Week a paper called the Lam
,s0ne produced as caricature a parody of t
, Passion and Person of our Divine Re-
leemer, so blasphemOus that think /
night description of it will do more than q
my words of mine to convince your read Il
n Oh the outrages perpetrated under a
protesting to be Catholic, and l
to offer guarantees for the 4
'linG IN question represents the meeting of
'ur Lord with st. Veronica. The cross a
Ihder which He bends has on the length 8
'eam n % MH.drdt al Debito," on the cross =
ne S - GrtSt Tag" In place of the letters v
nv ~ on the inscription are A. r. r. l. o
- ue nea1s Oh the ministers form an ending u
each beam, while the ground is strewn C
,lth large stones, on which are written
no words "FlOrencei taxes! impost of
W taxes taxes !" st. Veronica, who is h