The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-10

!. right to protect itself from the dangers
y M"'ch arse from an uncducated popula
.ion' if parents suffer their children t,
run WIG to grow up in ignorance ant
.4ue, the otate has right, full and sacred
10 protect itself against the pestilence and
the havoc of its criminal classes. 1t has 3
IiSht 10 punish the parent for neglect ol
MS natural duty, and to compel him to dis.
Charge It, Compulsory education, az q
pena,tv on heglect, and a protection asains
social danger. is undeniablv within the
competence of the State. Bpt even this
does not deprive the parent of his right to
enc choose the kind Of education he thinks fit,
ihese principles are fully recognized in
the laws of England When did we ever
t near OF computsion in the case of the rich 7
to ne most negligent parents arc left ur-
~, nuene", except In cases which come before
Ine tribunals OF the law. And these arise
only for the sake of property. The juris-
o aL:Iion OF the courts in the education of
Gu Is mere accident of the case.
me liberty and the rights of the poor are
equally sacred. They descend from the
sam sane e; divine vim laws: They may be touched
u".S ~ the case OF proved neglect, and that
not more to protect the rights of society
than to protect the rights of the child.
iuf Of the Church.-Thus far we have
spoken of the rights of parents and chill
aren by the law of nature. But these
ais ~, are taken up into the revealed law,
tons Of Christianity. AS we have said,
every Christian child has right in himself
TO Christian education every Christian
parent Is the guardian of that right in his
enid. And over the Christian parent is
me I, authority of the Church, as the guar
i Iian OF me rights and the guide Of the
liberty both of the parent and of the child
me education of Christian children in
1alth and morals-and nothing less than
such formation is worthy of the name of
directly and supremacy
TO the authority which in faith and morals
is both the ultimate judge and the supreme
guide. But of this we need say no more to
you. These principles are to YOU as
aXlomS, both of the natural and of the
Christian law. You need not, therefore
DC toiu that the civil power has received
no right. either by the law of nature or of
l. christianity, to assume to itself the fOrma- ;
non or education of the people. A worse ,
y. ~ ,anny eDu'u not De imagined; nation
educateu 10y a Government without faith F..
ana what Government pretends to have :.
aith "a people formed to the image and
LIKENESS of an atheistc Commune, or |
oltarian civil power, can only grow una /
o scourge itself with intestine feuds, and l.
o com NIT suicide as people. The poit- - -
al Leaders In France at this hour are the -
Inspiring of the last seventy years of edu- u
alton without religion: and emphatically !,
It the period from 1880 to lS4S. during IL
which the liberty and rights of Christian .
arents, and of tie Catholic Church, were G
Iolated by public law. The men of to- .
ay were formed without faith aud the "
ocial nliseres of France are their work p
nd their chastisement. But the State, y
ven had it the right, has no power for q,
nch an enterprise. It has Jurisdiction =.
yer the body, but none over the soul. 1t g.
IN control the outward actions of men it ="
lnnot reach the inward thought or will. o of
ia fnnr mi nj TO- rT,I.
but one power which can reach and r.
Guild the whole mind, heart, will, charac- "
r and life of man: the faith and the law u.
Him who knew what was in man, be- A,
use lie made him. And that faith and al ~,
w you, dear children in Jesus Christ, W.
I'VE as your Inheritance, and by it YOU ~
we been taught and formed. Your Chris u VI:
IN and Catholic education you account to I"i.
better than thousands of gold and silver VI.
u would not give it away for all the I tI,a
'rld. Your forefathers forsook all things R r.,
: it, and laid down Their lives to hand it ri
to you lnvlolate. You will not forsake an,
the sunshine what they held fast in the , In,
,rm. Everything is assailiug it, except, , M.
Iced, that which made your fOrefatbers i ,i'e
7incibly strong. We have NOWADAYS "
threats or force. But there are worse . ~
ngs, and more perilous, of which we "x r'e
We every KIND IN full play all the day The
e specioUs theories of education sub
distinctions between secular and reH- III lS
us matter. and between religions and n -
echetical teaching; alluring offers of ',
tie aid tempting avenues to favor or to ~ b.,
confusion of Tongues, in 49, ,''
,,I cd -, ,,,d tL, IN MAJ
-h0lic Church is called scctariau. The Al
IDS "t men seem at this time all abroad.
{ "Icligious difficulty" has brought them H.
the pass that there can be religion, that w.
'od, IN the school no longer.
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