The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-08

in separato wards, forming twenty-one
halls. each dedicated to ceEeAan cise. y.
disease, and contains gran0 eosal Q. t t,'.t
the direction Of the establishDont 10 IN tne
hands OF the Sisters of Charity.-Corres-
pondent Liverpool Catholic Times.
Meeting of the R;shops.-On the 9th oit.
the Bishops of Germany met at Fulda, anu ~
is understood that they will issue Jo'nt
the Government in matters OF fastn anu
spiritual discipline, ard making provisi0ns
for the maintenance Of the Church's inde-
pepdence even under persecution:
Tho Situation IN BaUGriG-The Minister
al crisis in Bavaria having culminate4 IN
the formation of new Ministry the Lo"
don Esousiner takes the following view OF
the religious and political situation IN tnaC
country: In every appreciation o. on
must be taken before all of two th'ngs-
the relation Of the Bavarian Monarchy to
the German Empire, and the relation OF
| the Stats to the Church within the circle
of internal affairs in Bavaria itself. inese
two Questions give rise to q twofold divis-
ion of parties. AS betwixt Monarchy ana
Empire. we have the Bavarians who desire
| to draw the bonds of union close even to
amalgamation or absorption. Probably we
ists. They have christened themselves
Natioualists. On the other hand there are
the Bavarians who cherish an autonomist
uOlicv, who denOunce centralization as I'M
polite and unpatriotic, who proclaim on
ali occasions their unslterable attachment
I to their ancient Bavarian fatherland, who
| not seldom ack no Wedge that their hate
, their positive detestatiOn-Of Prussian ag.
grandizement is at least as powerful ana
unai:eraeis as any sr D'1 Ipcas member Of
this party and the ex-deputy, expressed
{ himself after this fashion in his Dono"
. Zsituma, the other day: "The Pope is in
? deed infallible. This is my deep and hrm
+ belief. Were the Holy Father, however,
e to publish a declaration in favor OF Prus-
. ala. il would not be my hate of Prussia, but
9 nv faith in infallibility which would be
g Weakened" Herr Lucas aud bis friends are
: known as Particularists AS between
: Chnrch and State, another division of
opinions and politics occurs. This is the
II great battle ground of PASSIONS of misre-
l. presentations, of. nicknames. Let US en-.
e deavor to do justice to both parties, or, al
& least, eudeavor to let them 90 tnemselse,
E. each side has to say for itself. In the mrs
Mace there is the party which calls ltsel
IN Old Catholic and Liberal. This Is not
=, sufficiently comprehensive designation. l
i thinkers and Sceptics, as well as those VIII
~ call themselves Liberals aud Old Catholic
q. Everybody, in fact, but the Ultramon
he tanes 1t is best, accordingly, to define
"a negatively as non -Ultramontane, especial
a as it loves to describe its policy as emphatl
~ cally anti Ultramontane. By Ultramon
i' tanism it means reaction, despotism. igno
aS rance, super s.itiop, and in word, every
10 thing which can justly offend the man
a ao proeress and the enthusiast of culture an
as freedom. The question would be vel
~ simple, if the opponents of the anti ultr
81 montanes consented to accept TINS Hattie
LIE ing description. All that would be nece
10, ,n sary would be to pass good stringent mea
nf like, in order to put an end to anythli
disagreeable, and to live for ever and ev
~ in liberty and peace. But here is the ru
a.. ar. The Ultramontanes denounce despotls'
an reaction, superstition, and 50 10TH,
Justify as the other side. They assert til
thew do not know what Ultramontanis
"A means; that they have looked for it a
"a cannot find it: that certainly it 1t mea
the any contempt for the requirements
the civilization and the dictates of progre
DOL, anv horror of gas works OF drainal
Wis. hygiene or ventilation, reading or Writ
oout or arithmetic, classics or matAemati
Ills physical science or mental science, ancl'
emo, history or contemporary economy, ste
b on r. staon, or mesSs oe- sendinr by electri
ecx. ty, they have nothing to do with 1t.
think we may describe the action OF
new Cabinet as essentially one of comp
A mise as regards both the poiiticai anu q
ring matte conflict. A strong indication t
70 ia. the presiding spirit of the Cabinet. as
~ Of CARDS the question of Bavaria agai
w in Prussianized Germany, will certainly
the countenance any o-Prussian advance
ublic afforded 6y the iact Clae il s nonents
while the we'll known sapperIei VI oisn :h
deep unihcaeion, mas peen tounu NJ W Se an i m
\ pro- sloie minister. VI Ine oG D uauu; w
Mayor Hegnenoerg, 'ne acCua. ! .!t, a.!
uncii, neeted oy me eeIonges' t.es ol t1aoi
!, and ana sympathy WIN tne oe.er mi n Oh
oorted pents OF RUSSIAN supremacy. On!y
flu years ago he was leaoes Oh tna1
,hurch German party "a the ola coniedera
in the which based Its hopes on revival OF
cata- old German glories througn the age
Office not OF the uPstart AehenZoilern, put OF
High iong-descended heir OF all the HaPsot
. Tur the representative OF the ancient Nal
r. Du- Of Charles w., and bar earossa, ana On
after the Great The world ilVes last no
to the days, a1u amlghty perlou mas already pa
tent in since that FrankforS ferstentag,
black Francis Joseph went 90 meet the hon
Id gar of the potentates OF germany, oig an