The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-04-14

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tempered with Luther, thinking he mich
1e useful in checking the Holy See, robbie,
that See of Parma and Placentia, and tLel
sent an army into Italy and sacked Rome
ana these under the Bourbons even ex
celled tho horrors perpetrated under Bar
| barossa.
1t was 40 in the days of Dante, when Flor
ence and venice, those fair cities both found
60 on soil, the ancient property of the Holy
See, rivaled each other in their unpaturn
hhostility to the Chair of Peter; when Sextu.
arm of accommodation, and julius had
TO array against her for the protection of
| the Holy See the formidable and memor.
able league of Cambrsy.
The evil powers which have thus wasted
Italy with wars, have ever sought to cast
upon the Holy See, the odium of intestine
strlfe, and to represent it's efforts in self
defence as signs of self-interested ambition.
Yet even Protestant or sceptic historians,
euch as Ranke, Voltaire, and Voight, have
honestly acknowledged that in these con-
tests the Pontiffs took the right part, and
the part they were forced to take in de-
fence of that temporal Independence which
is essential to the free exercise of its SUI
premacy.
And of such Pontiff as julius H., even
the Lutheran Ranke could confess THAT his
objects were not personal, but noble, and
involved the liberation Of Italy from
foreign domination. These objects he and
Pontiffs like him in these times attained
and long gave peace to the Peninsula. But
the mbition of princes, and the turbulence
OF people would not let it rest and the
result was that Italy was enslaved, aud has
never since ceased to be disturbed.
Ihe decline of Pontifcal authority has
legious revolutionists have vainly striven
to restore that independence which Papal
wisdom had achieved. And now this
revolutionary party throw upon Christ's
vicar the blame of all the evils arising from
their strifes, or their savage and assassin
like spirit. Despots and democrats, who
alike have deprived the Holy See Of it's
due power in Italy, aud who have seized
fair regions originally it's fefs, and which,
when ruled by it's Wears, enjoyed peace
and prosperity, unite in treating it with
disrespect and outrage. The wolves who
have ravaged the fold, now seek to deyour
the shepherd; and following the foul tactics
of their master, the Father to lies, they
dehie with calumny the sacred power they
desire to abase.
This is their ancient policy in all ages
Popes have been the marks for calumny.
In the middle ages the Popes were ambi-l
tious-now the leaders of pablo opinia
age tyranny and iniquity have not wass 9
pretexts for rapine. 1t is not strau hat
they should find abundant pretext M this
age for universal spolation and find no |
nation of Europe raising it's voice against
the most Infamous robberies.
Il is true that In the time of Napoleon-}
I, the common exigencies of Europe led its
to recognize the Importance of
Rome. She found even in England an in
terested protector; but when that period
Of peril had passed away, the old enmities
to God revived, and tho successive storms
of revolution that have passed over the |
Peninsula have deposited the seeds of
moral poison, which have in Our day
terminated into such fearful Sgrowth.
The old elements of mischief have
united with the new with unnatural con-
gruity but fatal maiignity, and there has
arisen in Europe an accursed and odious
league against the Holy See, like that of
death and sin, between the spirit of prince
ly pride and the spirit of democratic spolia.
ton. They have their bad principals IN !
aud the love of spolia-
ton. The idenl velle atque nolle "-that
ancient bond of union between conspirators |
unites the monarchists with the revolution
lists in their war against the Church both
cry from many lands of Europe, "Ruin to
Rome"
Rome, that survived the terrific persecu-
lions of the Caesars, and remained to re-
ceive the sceptre when it was falling from
tnelr Crem nnng, dying hands; Rome which |
conferred alternately on French and Ger |
man sovereigns the crown of France or dia- !
lem of Germany, in days when even an |
Emperor only aspired to the title of Patri- !
clan Protector of the Eternal City; Rome,
which outliHed the awful wars of the Chi
beline and Guelph, whose horrors made |
even the stern spirit OF Dante tremble and |
quail Rome, which has been victorious
over all the princes who have made Italy
hell from the days of Barbarossa to the age
Of the Bourbons and from the age of the
Bourbons to the age of the Bonapartes-is
Rome now to fear in these days of little
faith, even the combinations of royal
diplomacy and spurious democracyf
L. "a indeed an ara nf littla faith. and tina