New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-12-02

nv hest 20 DO exact and writer undertake more
APOLOGIES FOR RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION
once more Father Burke says am unft to speak OF
Ireland because hate the Catholic Church show my
hatred IL appears by holding that Church answerable
for crueties OF the Duke Ava in the Netherlands and
for the massacres Of ST. Bartholomew Day In France
Here is what the Father SAYS on the first OF these mat
ters: Ava fought in the Netherlands against an up
rising against the authority OF the State II the rebels
happened Proesnts there is no reason to father
their blood upon tho Catholics"
beg you to attend this passage. This is the way in
which modern Catholic history is composed and you
may from 1t what kind OF lessons children VIII be
taught in the National Schools Catholics have the con-
troll OF the textbooks Father Burke himself perhaps
only repeats what he himself learned suppose nc
heard Of the Edcts Of Charles " BY those Edcts
which we're issued OF the opening of the Reformation
every man convicted OF holding heretca opinions was
to lose his head IT. he obstinate and refused to re-
can't he was TO be burned Women were to be buried
alive. Those who concealed heretics were liable
to the penalties as the heretics themselves The
execution Of the Edcts committed to the Epis
copa Ip0uison and under Them I'm that reign. the
great Grotius whose alone guarantee against
sSnieion of declares that not less than
$4,000 persons were put death In cold blood. have
myself expressed doubt whether these numbers could
totally mtroubled with theological professions,
the historian GibbOn considers the largest estimate 10
be the nearest TO the truth. don't ask You to believe
noe, ladies and gentlemen read Grotus read the Prince
Of Oranges apology; read the pages Of your own Mr.
Father Burke in like amer declares that the Church
bameess for the destruction OF the French protest.
news came he SAYS were for the safety of the King and
not for the massacre OF the HuguenOs. llaughter.l
Indeedl Then why did the infallble Pope laughterl
issue medal, OF which was stamped Hugonotor9m
stragesslaughter Of the Hueuenosi Why was the DE-
sign on the reverse OF the meual, an anSeL MIN MIN
sword shifting the Hydra OF heresy Does
Father Burke know suppose not-thst TIE Ben muir u,
ders in Paris were only the beginning OF a scene o.
havoc which Overspread France, and lasted Tor nearly
two months Z Eighteen or nineteen Thousand persons
Der the list swollen to 10000 strangely nca9tious
Charles the Ninth iLaughlerI For what must nave ,
the effect Of the news Of the Popes approval on the
zeal OF the orthodox executoners lApplause.l
HATING A cHURCHs CRIMES.
Ladies and gentlemen, 1 do not hate the Catholic
religion. Some Of the best and hottest men have ever
heard Of have lived and died in the Catholic faith But
do hate the spirit which the Church displayed in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and hate the
spirit which would throw vail Of sophisTy over those
atrocities in the nineteenth Applause The history
Of the iustrOu who fought aud bied in that long,
desperate battle for liberty of conscience that very I'D
erty to which the Catholics now appeal Is sacred as
left charge 10 all succeeding generations Father
Burke is himself for toleration-the ireest and
i wish / could feel that he was speaking for his
Church as well rs himself But my mlnd misgYes me
when read the syllabus. Ia me same NUMBER or ne
Ner- York IG6iet from which take his speech ma an
article condemning me admission OF Jew, 10 tIe
rights OF citizens Laughter ana apPauscI row Is
very hard TO be tolerant on Father BHrhes Terms ~
II history,
d criminals. The Catholics were innocent victims.
Lagshtgrl On these t terms rms d me not rs ~iI R
ige Fi dhG BaTFe knows the Connection be-
tween confession and absolutOn The first is the con
% Of the s second o be t World Ti W as an
forgive them. lAppause II she taxes refuge IN eva
were guilty Of nothing except resistance to her tyranny
i the innocent blood that she shed remains upon her
A sneak on ks Iris6 subject and viii at once pass IT,
said al Was "a
Norman conquest. In other countries, have SAID there
we're wars mi order was ont OF them In Ireland said
no such tendency was visible. Father Burke answers
= bad Ar ast driven The danes OUT and were settling
10 Uoacc and GOOD government He audes TO the Wars
l ID Tor blif century serious Is ne speaking
of the England which Erasmus came to yisit-which
the courts OF spain aud france co4fIed p1r,
sistently the arbter Of Europei hold m
my hand the balance OF European community. Arch,
Bishop Amsen seems NToie to congratulate hihg Ol
Munster on the quiet OF tue country peg any VI you
the leaves OF the Annals OF the fQuf Mas
er the most authoritative record OF lIlsh history
read in my Lectures the entry LOT ne lI'V ~ years
before the conquest wheu accocng 10 the rather al
things going we'll In that one year tnree kings
were killed. besides an lnluIla'e saugnSet Vi o t,
4 people. Look for yourselves, see whether tn1t
year was eIGeptGnany Da Infae of Tf fbn i9 a@
Archbishop IN glt well write ngTatuate" lIaughterl
Geradus. the Weshman, who came in soon after to see
what ireland was like confirms substantially the ac
count OF the annals Father Burke calls him freely
liar though bo quotes him apprOylngy when he speaks
on Inc Isl virtues Ii Geraidus Is 70 be believed when
he saws the Irish were loyal their chief do not know
fierce ceutous reacheIOns false and cruel. Geraldu5
tells some absurd stories The Irish books Of the age are
there were extant &C lives Of st. Patrick. Mr.. Gbbon
says OF them that they must have contained as many
thousand lies is large estimate or those which
survived the earliest which Is very beautiful ana CON
aims few lies, or perhaps none me latest mat Dy
Joceyn of Ferns which has been adopted by the Boil
endists, contains probably more than thousand hes
Il is OF the most ridiculous books ever looked mo
wish you would read Gerlduss account OF Ireland II
translated; II is snort, and carries about H. IN my
ftrtir lttlI-u % ".
GENUREEEss OF POPE ABRAMS BULL
go to the Norman Conquest itself, and Pope Adrans
bull which Father Burke still declares to be forgery.
need here hardly say that attach no consequence to-
the bull itself suppose the Popes Of Rome have no
more right over Ireland than 1 have Cuba. The
POpes however, did at that time represent the gem
eral conscience. What Pope sanctioned was usually
what the intelligent part Of mankind held to be right.
conquest, they committed a crime which ought to
be exposed. The naked facts are these: King
Henry, when he conquered ireland, pro
duced his authority bull said TO have
been granted twenty years before Dy rope Adrian II
cesastcaI suits were referred TO Rome Continual an
picatOn was made to Rome for dispense.
ton to marry within the forbidden tdegrees-
There was close ana constant communication
clergy and the Roman Court Is 1t conceivable that
iu the Of all this communication the Irish should
never have mentioned this forged bull at Rome or that
If they did mention it, there should have been inquiry
and exposure. To such suppostOn is utterly In
gerry on the face oft The date upon it's 5l Adrian
elected Pope on Dee g. 154 John, of Salisbury by whom
the Bull procured did not arrive in Rome TO ask for
IT until 1856 What clearer proof could there bel Very
plausible But fOrgers would scarcely have committed
bunder 10 simple Father BurEos criticism from
handling tools he is imperfectly acquainted with. He Is
evidently ignorant that the English official year began
on March 25. A paper dated February. lisa, IN
reality written February, 1855 The Popes did not use
this style, but Engshmen did and q confusion OF this
kind is the natural thing in the world iii the publ
cation Of document by which England specially
affected.
But we are only at the beginning OF the difficulty in
which now led by the hypothesis OF forgery.
advise Father Burke TO look at letter from subse-
quent Pope to KING Henry the Third, published by DR.