The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-11-24

Europe. Tho PrctestAnte afc JILL |
This society Of jesus" q y with ito pioss,
general, of course shudders at the P.'I Ersnee.
whom thirty thousand French Professionals Yer. YER
massacred And you don't know the aes IN |
hour Of midnight wbes as then t the Of oi America
and Europe Read that letter.
In the fret place and before enumeraung
some of the ISLANDERS alluded to, look at tho
utter falsity of the very first aiieea''on'
paraded as q startling fact. Father burke
is not the recognized General in-Ch'ei Oh
the Jesuits. He is not a Jesuit at all but
Dominican. He is not even General-ih-
Chief of the Dominicans.
As to the millions of men whom he can
control, it is simply a falsehood made out
of whole cloth, without q shadow OF PROOF
to sustain it OF a grain of common sense
in it's fabrication to give it probability.
Now as to the ISLANDERS. The first is In the
allegation that Catholics, in a herd, would
act in Obedience to any man regardless OF
the ties and obligations of nationality.
The history of Christianity, which ls now
: nearly nineteen hundred years old, shows
> no instance of the kind, but on the con-
trary, proves clearly that Catholics are
uniformly the most loyal citizens of every
/ country. They fight with valor for a Pro-
testant government against one exclusiveiy
f Catholic, if the former be their own.
g I'd. That Catholics, as a population do
not regard oaths. Uttorly false.
! 3. That they do not regard ties OF blood
s 4th. That they openly disregard the
9 commands of God, in their blind fidelity to
n some man. All these are perfectly ground
y less calumnies. We do not speak of isola-
8 ted cases, but of Catholics as a body, any
is where. 1t is unhappy fact that there
is are bad Catholics, men who will not folio"
E. the holy guidance of their Church ant
a whose conduct is calculated to scandalizt
a the thoughtless; but, to judge of the inhu
Ia ence Of a system, we must examine LIZ
to conduct of those who conform to Its laws
At not of those who violate them. Traitor
J. may indeed he found among Catholics, bu
le what we affirm is, that Catholics, as body
Of have always been loyal to their govern
ID ments, of every and any kind, throughon
p the whole nineteen centuries OF Chrlstla
10 history, and often under circumstances
where people Of any other creed woul
y have rebelled against the unfair discrimi
e. nation which they bore patiently.
" Now, where is the justice, or the wisdom
,e or the candor, or the truthfulness
is charging, at this late day, that Catholic
VS. will act "regardless of nationality, or civl
o. obligation, or oaths, or ties OF blood, Q
Mt God, or man T.
a. And on what ground does tho writer has
I'd all these charges7 Simply on the fact tha
o. Father Burke has predicted that the Cath
a olic Church is destined to swallow up a
re the sects and that Professionals OF German
lat are bringing on themselves by the expatria
re t;on of Catholics a bloody war that wi
nv involve all Europe. All Catholics kno
pt that the Church must triumph over tn
sects, but how does that sustain any sue
ire charces as those above referred to Agai
ii. Religious persecution will kindle the tore
,ps of war. Does that show that there is an
de uDarkness ehead' in America, or any da'
le- ger either unless Catholics should
its grossly prosecuted here tool Surely Peep
tai ought not to be classed as regardless of a
Eill national, social, civil, spiritual, divil
wn and human ties and obligations simply b
yet cause they are FESTIVE under insult, exp
triation, plumber and persecution of Il
ing most reckless kind.
md The man who is afraid to trust Catholi
on as citizens is the same man who teach
ry- ignorant back woodsmen that priests ha
hts horns on their heads.
NE CathedrS Fair.