The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-08-06
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GERMANY.

70 GERMANY. ,.
Prussian Intolerance. - The PrussiAn
Government has Mt length dectstvely
shown its hand in the Infallibility question.
In reply TO the Right Rev. DR.. Kremnitx,
Bishop of Ermland, whose petition was
Braunsberg, Herr Won Muller, Minister Of
Instruction, has distinctly refused to re-
move the excommunicated teacher, DR..
WOlfman, from the Braunsberg Catholic
Gymnasium. The reasons alleged by the
Prussian Minister are 80 many deliberate
Insults to the Catholic feeling of the coun-
try. DR.. Wollman, says Herr Won Muller,
still processes the Catholic faith as it was
before the Vatican Council. The Prussian
Government, seeing that he has indisputa-
bly, fulfilled the obligations under which he
was appointed, cannot, therefore, make
him the victim of external variations.
Furthermore, since religious instruction is
obligatory in UNCONVENTIONAL schools sub
ject TO the Prussian Government, any Ca
rholic children who would take advantage
of the education afforded by tue Brauns-
berg Gymnasium will be bound to attend
the Catholic instruction of DR.. Wollman's
lectures. With regard to the argument
that the Braunsberg Gymnasium, being
endowed out of Catholic funds, ought not
to be diverted to anti Catholic purposes,
Herr Won Muller cooily .reiterates his So
phism, that the Braunsberg Gymnasium
tholic faith of the time of it's endo wment.
It is unnecessary to lay stress upon the
dishonest character of the pleas put for
ward by the Prassian Minister. 1t would
seem that Prince Bismarck, now that he
has obtained the service he required from
the patriotism of the German Catholics,
thinks he can, not only dispense with their
further assistance, but can venture to out
rage their most sacred convictions. Ger
tainly the prosecuting tyranny avowed in
the dispatch of Herr Won Muller can
only be paralleled by the spirit spirit, which Inch
against the Catholics of Great Britain and
Ireland. Unhappy Germany, if her glori-
Gus triumphs have only reduced her to a
stage which Protestant England left be-
hind half century ago! The Prussian
Government used to be cited for the mode
was before the valor of the Rhineland and
Bavarian Catholics placed the Imperial
crown ON the brOws of the HohenZollerns.
The Recent Disturbances IN Prussian ST.
lesia.-With reference to the recent dis
turbances at Koenigshutte, SO bloodily sup
pressed by the Prussian Uhlans, it is stat
ed that large portion of the discomfort of
the workmen is owing to the manner in
which their religious feeling has been in
suited by the agents of the Government.
Although tho Catholic wOrkmen are 16 600
and the Evaugolicals only 1000, the mi
nOTICy nus Ucou SySI0ul8GlCdAIy pIeicIECu Ou
all occasions. The Catholic workmen have
seen their priests insulted. their schools
hindered, and all the inspectorships given
to virulent anti-Catholics. The Catholic
clergy had warned the Prussian Govern
ment of the probable consequences of such
line of conduct. 1t seems, however, that
the lance thrust of the Uhlap la considered
the best reply to Catholic complaints.
The King Of Bararia.-His Majesty sent
the other day, in the ost gracious manner,
by telegram dated Hobenschwangan, bic
congratulations to the Archbishop OF
Munich, on the occasion OF his Graces
birthday. The dispatch ended with the
| words sc take this opportunity of as
surfing you, that I am, and mean to live
and die, Catholic"
We read in the Daily Reriee that seces-
sions from the English Church to the Rus
sian branch of the Greek Church is said to
be very numerous. 1t is reported that at
the present time l22 applications from Eng
Established Church, to be admitted to the
Russian Com munion, are being considered
| by a Special COMMITTEES of the Russian
Synod.
The fantastic tricks of which many of the
Ritualistic clergy are guilty are notorious
Of one of them we read in the Bristol Times
and Mirror, that in the Church of IS. Mi.
Cuaol blu All <1uS clbs p" ahhotOt oAO ASeAi
stated in q sermon his belief that there
would be twelve women to one man who
would enter heaven! This, he observed
was q calculation of his own, and was based
on Sacramento Confession! Who made
him judge, or constituted such as he as 6
spiritual census-taker7
The Blessed Virgin as Vieped from q Par
Elementary Standpoint.-A striking instance
of the gross anomaly, to use no stronger
term, of the House Of Commons taking
upon it to legialate for the Church concern
ing spiritual matters, occurred in the dis
cussion on tie Prayer Book (Table of Les
sons) Bill the other night. An honorable
member, who gave anything but an as
: surance that he was Churcbman-and, il
one at all, we dare say only nominally 80
made motion virtually to expunge from
the Book of Common Prayer the Catholic
designation of the Blessed Virgin Mary al
Our Lady" His piea-one as false as il
is absurd-was this, that it "would intro.
duce uniformity in the Book itself, and
harmony with other Churches" Now
what can there be in such a phrase that is
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