The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-04-28
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
LETTER FROM ROME.
AN EASTER ADDRESS.
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY. APRIL %, 1919.

AN EASTER ADDRESS.
ROME, March 3l.-On Holy Saturday til,
Holy Father received several hundreds o
Romans and foreigners in the Sale de
Trono, and delivered to them the following
AllOcutions
Before giving you my blessing, wish tt
say few words. 1 will speak in French, be
cause if I spoke in Italian, many of you would
Church celebrates tho greatest event which
has ever been accomplished in the history OF
the world, the Passion and Resurrection OF
Our Lord Jesus Christ. You know how, at the
moment of the Passion, darkness covered the
whole earth. On the contrary, when the Re-
surrection came, light spread itself everywhere
and darkness disappeared. Now this darkness
horizon, and seems as though it would o second
time cover the world. It is our part then to
beseech Christ to dissipate it, ard to enlighten
mems minds which, in truth, are plunging
themselves every day into still deeper OBJ
security.
"Thus, for instance, it is not long ago since
heard IL said, Why does not the Pope go out :
The reason is clear enough. He does not wish
to meet in the streets of Rome so many causes
for grief and scandal; as, for example, tho
procession of Mazzni. 1t is true that to-day
this procession is over, but those who did not
hinder it, and those who took part in it. still
remain. They are my enemies, or rather the
enemies Of God, aud neither can expose my
self, nor ought to expose myself, to their ini-
guilty.
" In the same manner it is said Why cele-
brate no functions in St. Petersf And what
functions would you wish should be celebrated
in q city where great number of churches
have already been profaned, and where religion
and it's ministers are daily insulted
The Evangelist recounts that many of the
dead arose at the moment when the Lord ex-
PRED on Golgotha. In opening anew their
eyes to this life, they must have seen the Son
OF God hanging on the gibbet of the Cross,
Sacrifice offered for US. We also ought to turn
our eyes towards the Cross of Jesus, the source
of salvation to the world (; and we ought not
only to rise again with Christ ourselves, but
hnd their way back.to be path of truth, justice,
ana relglon. There is no better way of cole
Drafting the Resurrection of Christ, which is
the foundation of onr holy religion.
1t is then with these sentiments that in
woke on you the blessing of the Lord. May He
uphold the arms of His Vicar, whilst His Vicar
you the grace to combat and to conquer, in
der that at the last hour you may all commit
your souls into His hands, and praise Him for
all eternity.-Benedicfio Del, etc."
FEDERATED CATHOLIC SOCIETIES.
An important Brief has been addressed
10 the Catholic societies in Rome aggregat-
ing them into federation, to which the
name "Pana" is given. The brief was
read last week to a large concourse of men,
Ders IN the Church of St. Andrea della
Vale.
THE ALLEGATION TO THE HOLY SEE.
The Official Journal has published a de-
cree of Victor Emmanuel ordering the 81
2ao,OOO francs of civil list allotted to the
rope by the law of the Guarantees to be
Inscribed apart on the "Gran Libro' of the
public debt, to run from the LIST JAM, 1871.
Every body is, of course, aware that neither
the Pope nor any of his faithful servants
ever have touched or ever will touch six
pence of it.
NEW CATHOLIC PAPER.
A French daily Catholic paper, entitled |
1e Catalogue de Rome, has just appeared.
1t Is intended to neutralize the effect of the
pad papers already published in French,
and circulating amongst foreign visitors,
and beyond the limits of the peninsula.
All the Catholic papers hitherto published
at Rome are in Italian, and though they do
an immensely of good in unmasking false
mood and error, their influence is, of course,
confined to those who understand the Ian
guage.-LondoR Tablet.