The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-09
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 1871.

MORNING. JULY 9, 1871.
ways highly gratified at the tact, prudence
and wisdom which marked the whole con-
duct Of the Bishop in his relations will,
them. We would fain hope that things
may 60 on in the same manner, and es-
pecially az the Bishop of Strasburg, by the
belongs rather to the Church of Germany
than to that of France. may add that
the evils now endured by the Churches of
Colmar and Mulhouse exist also In other
parishes and those some of the most i'm.
portant in the Diocese. A second fact of
great Importance relates to the manage.
ment of our schools. / do not speak OF
schools in general, but Of those interests,
religious and educational, which are affect
ed by the Prussian conquest. The Prus-
slams are wishing to take from us at all
hazards the liberty for which we battled
with French Governments for twenty years,
and of which for other twenty years we
mean the liberty Of entrusting our primary
Communal Schools to religious coDgrega-
tions. Here is striking fact bearing on
the subject: At Bosheim, Q town on the
Lower Rhine, of 5000 Inhabitants, theS
sehoolmaster for private reasons has just
French law, by which, We are told, We are
still governed, the parochial authorities
are elnpowered-wheHeve the school be-
comes vacant by death, resignatlOn, or dis
missal OF the master-to decide whether
they will have lay masters or religious.
A meeting Of the Municipal Council was
held and It was decided, by majority of
fourteen for, to six against, to ask for the
Christian Brothers. The minority however,
made strenuous opposition, and circulated
In the parish q memorial against the ap-
pointment of the religious. Their memo
rial obtained $50 signatures. Another me
clergy and sent round for signatures; it
obtained 600 names. 1t was duly forward
to Strasburg, but the Prussian Governors
only reply was to send lay schoolmsster,
accompanied by an assurance that he would
not have the Christian Brothers " at any
price," Similar incidents have occurred at
two villages ON the Lower Rhine, Hutten-
helm and Ottersthal, and the same result
has followed, namely, that che most valu-
able of Communal rights has been ignored
and rudely refused.
Memorial Of French Bishops to tie Ma
tional Assembly.-Five French PrelaSes,
the Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen and the
Bishops of Seez, Coutances, Bayeux and
Evreux, have addressed o memorial 80 the
National Assembly, in which they ely, that
as spokesman Of the wishes of their own
tlocks, and as guardians Of Catholic inter-
ests generally, they pray the Assembly TO
call upon the Government to concert mea-
sures for the re-establishment of the Sow
ereign Pontiff in the position which is in
dispensable to his liberty of action and to
the due discharge of his high functions as
Ruler of the Catholic Church. The me-
mortal, besides giving an able and lumin-
| GUS expose of the facts and arguments bear
ing on the question of the Temporal Power,
which are already familiar to our readers,
touches on the part allotted to France in
81, Il Of tha
tress of the Holy See, and the consequent
ces for good or evil to herself which result
ed from the manner in which she has dis
charged her duty to the Pope. Referring
to the actual position of His Holiness, the
Bishops say-"Placed in contact with the
bayonets, and under the eye of the italian
police, the Pope has not the liberty neces-
sary to the good government of the Church.
1t is simply mOckery to pretend that,
| shut up as he is in the Vatican, under the
surveillance of a hostile and jealous Power,
he can speak, write, move, and, without
| impeachment, communicate with the Bish-
| ops and the Faithful !; issue DEGREES, order
their publication-in o word, preserve in
| all his official acts that complete independ-
ence which is necessary to make them au-
thoritative." In allusion to the 80 called
Guarantees, the Bishops remark that the
conduct Of the Italian Government since
the occupation has shown the assurances
which it processes to give the Pope to be
delusive and that It had neither the in
tention nor, in fact, the power to carry them
into effect In conclusion, the Bishops
show that the national faith of France is
pledged by the Treaty of Zurich to protect
| the Holy See, and the more so, as France
has ON several occasions declined the prof
fered Intervention Of other Catholic Powers
for the same purpose.
| ASIA.
The Sisters Of Charity and their Works IN
Hong Kong.-Little is publicly known o.
the great good done by the Italian Sisters
in their convent on the Gaines road in the
matter of female education. In fact, the
great majority of residents know positively
! nothing about the convent work of the