The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-12-03
NDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 3, 1871.

DECEMBER 3, 1871.
URGENCY OF Observation-Disclosures OF MR.
GLADSTONE.
Tue urgency of this question is manifest.
The distinguished statesman who now
holds the reins of government has fire.
quently admitted that the state of ono
branch of education in Ireland is unsatis-
factory, and has expressed his desire to re-
dress admitted grievances while our
avowed opponents, determined to resist
every concession to our just demands, and
clamoring for u settlement of the Irish
Education question, arc endeavorlns To
force upon US goddess systems, which as
Catholics and Irshmen we must condemn.
Some settlement or attempt at a settlement
cannot therefore be long delayed.
DUTY OF CATHOLICS AS PARENTS AND
And you, the Catholics of Ireland, ex-
pect from us, your Bishops, whom God has
Sion, clear teaching as to your duty re-
speeding the education of your children.
To you especially, Irish fathers and moth
ers, are our words addressed, for to God,
" from whom all paternity is named, must
you answer for the souls of your children,
whose welfare hereafter, as we'll as here on
earth, chiefly depends on your securing for
| them the benefits of Catholic education.
Knowing your duty to your children, it
| will be for yon, as citizens OF this empire, to
| assert your constitutional right to the full
est iihsrty apd to complete equality with
4 youcifellowf sssbjects, in the fulfilment OF
those duties which your conscience, guided
by religion, imposes on you. 1t is the
boast of the Government under which we
live, that all citizens are equal before the
Jaw, and that it interferes with the consci
eptious religious opinions of no man. 1t
will be for you, who are members OF the
holy Catholic Church, the - pillar and
ground of truth" and who thus enjoy the
} inestimable blessing Of Infallibly knowing
the truth of God, to claim for the truth the
legal rights aud privileges so freely granted
} to every form. of error. Therefore, declar-
; ing to you the maxims of our holy religion,
we apply to the present circumstances OF
} our country the principles which our faith
teaches us, that you may know what is the
, will! Of God well pleasing and perfect.
You must, then, fathers and mothers
l have always before your eyes in the edu
r cation of your children, that Fundamental
truth, which Incarnate Wisdom Himsel
+ taught us, when He said: What doth i
. profit man, if he gain the whole world
4 and suffer the loss of kis own soul T. (Matt
y xvi. 26). What will it profit you or you
. children TO gain all knowledge, and to Mt
[ tain the greatest success i'll this world, !
: through your fault and through your eH
/ ton, they suffer the loss of that faith
: without which sit is impossible to pleas
: God"F (Hebr. xi.)
" TEACHING OF TIE SYLLABUS.
e Guided by this principle, our Holy Fla
ther, Pope Plus IN, has declared that Ca
j. tholcs cannot "approve of Il system
1f educating youth unconnectcd with IL
!. Catholic Faith and the power of IL
a Church, and which regards tue knowlcdl
t,,fr w ,Dtn l,l ifus Y.
If ieas: primarily, the ends of earthly soci
10 life" Catholic parents cannot approve
an education which fits their children on
fox this life, and ignores that life IN Win,
the soul is to live for ever. AS Ialth is q
ps foundation of all of our hopes for eternit
and as faith, without good works is de;i
you cannot choose fOI your children educ
lis ton which would endanger their faith al
b. morals, and consequently imperlls th'
of eternal welfare.
TEACHING OF POPE pIrs VII.
of This is no vowel doctrine, as some asse
of In the beginning of the century, the tilt
:, a trious Plus VII, in an Encyclical letter q
ID dressed to the Bishops of the Catho
ich world, July 10, 1900, thus writes:
,ur cit is your duty to take care OF I
are whole flock over which the Holy Ghost l
on placed you as Bishops, but in particular
IN watch over children and young men. II
red ought to be the special object of your
the ternal love, of your vigilant solicitude,
sire your Zeal' or all your care lucy
ln- have trleo 10 suovert socle'y apu i1illll
nds to destroy authority divine and hum
be- have spared no pains to infect and corr
mt youth, hoping thus the more easily
and execute their infamous projects. III
the know that the mind and heart OF yo'
,ry persons, like soft wax, 10 WHICH one
test give what form lie pleases, are very
ZION ceptible of every sort OF impression;
nth they keep tenaeious,y, when age has
,ent hardened them, those which they
on early received, and reject others. The
stem the well-known proverb taken from
| to Scripture, a young man ACCORDING 10
give ways, even when he Is old he WIN not
part from it., Suffer not then, veneer