The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-06-09
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at last had it's license ywithdrsVn "a,
oolng somewhat dourishinR trnSs tt AFTER
parry ia. the Catholic forbcarance c s-Io
nas hitherto refrained from attack;nwna 'ce
apparently honest movement In sas,ass az
me truth, Ritualism haa run 20 rs",a. Of
u 1nas charity itself demands IL shonlS S1 ~
properly defined iii possible) and r.. J. y
lowers shown what q souliess sha s% ,S 4. iol.
nave sought to embrace. Puseyismr my s;nsy
Churchlsm, or Ritualism. il the nstrs. n,ign-.
suit OF the intangibility of Prot~ct.SM.re.
snd It's failure to satisfy mon Of assa,
aspiration after the truth with ita s,0?ess
20 divine origin, or actual antiquity bev a,us
Gus Henry VIII. The spirit Of anr;N
search after the one true light which ia ason
the glorious Oxford secession hos Leu to
enormous fruit. From Henry. Arcbh.Itne
OF Westminster, down through a h.;,i;aoP
line OF ecclesiastical digniteries. wa "iaas
show perfect phalanx Of intellectns, eal
; ;cnoiariy men, who sacrificed their ss IIa
Ing, and everything but life Itself and S' aa
snat sacrifice would have been feels , o.sh
II demanded. Protestants did nnt ns Msae
stand what lymphatic influence oon,S h.
taken hold OF the brightest ornamcnt. y.
thelr ecclesiastical world, and inS1..%s
shem to forego all for the faith Of hs;a
;;o o,s But to any person Of ordinsrv.
attachments could have 90 long restsS ~. .sea
ned with creed which was no arenS - sss ~
and might be taken in. homnonathic -. ". ~
lopnaflc doses, according to the viii ,osns
ewaiiower; in search Of . hviSr a NM w.
s mniHn may % interpreted In any way ths
readers Judgment directs, or In ssvsrs,
bed from our Missai, and who'll i;r nnay, sne.
emit, inadequate, and contradictory: Z ~"
a without life or motive, or moyemsnt.
constitution 10 elastic % to set tha ts.s'
poral over the spiritual, to make a mocEsrr
OF episcopal authority, and to include H.
most heterogeneous elements of discord
disunfon, and dissent.
anousands more would have Joined tbs
movement to which we owe our Mannincs
Mewmans, Fabers, Oakleys, Aliiesa. ~;
WAoerforces, but for that love for ~.
!oaves and fshes which, alas! had proved
700 strong for thousands before them who
had CROPPED their way into the light. Yet
GSEImPlaSent Puseyism, gulping down the
lnfty- Nine articles as long as they were
wei creased with the fat of good "liyinps,"
was not altogether satisfactory to some Of
the Protestant clerics, and for soms tins
taey cast about for plan whereby their
conscienees might be somewhat saived.
ana the anomaly Of their position in the
church apparently justified. Tho discrep.
ances IN the pray ERE book, and the made.
quacy of the secular and ecclesiastical
powers to assert their authority over re-
calcltrant Colensos, and openly defiant
Macon ocbies, furnished the fretext for the
fou adation of Ritualism, which has proved
the most disturbing element the Estab-
ilshed church has ever had to lament, and
found impossible to combat. At the outset.
the Ritualists appeared to be earnest, sin
cere, and self sacrificiBg men. They tiwent
in" for certain amount of good works az
we'll as lively faith, for an attempt Mt honest
practice as we'll as mere precept. When
they established brotherhoods and sister-
hoods for the furtherance of certain WorLs
of mercy, which the bowling "Evapaeli.
calls" had always overlooked or nepiecfed.
when they opened the churches for prayer
o1tener than once week, and ENCOURAGED
sensible and lively exercises of deyotien !.
when they tried to initiate the ritual of the
Church, and enlisted the arts among the
Incentives to fervor-Catholics in charity
withheld their verdict, nay, tried to HELM
hem on by prayer to the gaoI thew profess.
"a to seek. And Catholicity received MANY
'ecruits from the first ranks of the semi
ecessionists. But a very few wears have
proved that the original fervor Of Ritualism
las waned away that it cares not for
piritual unless coupled with temporal
;ains; that it is perfectly content with the
hadow, as long as the substance cannot
70 grasped without great sacrifice thatit
eeks not to possess the soul of religion
While the dead body can be trioked cat
neiy in all the initiated vestments of the
;athoiic Church that it addresses itself to
he eye and ear alone, and not to the heart;
hat its pertinacity is prompted by pride,
q good works suggested by vanity, and
70 apparent zeal maintained out Of sheer
efiance to impotent authority. They are
atistied with self.styled /" priesthood
'lthout ordination, q ritual without author
y, sanctuary without a tabernacle, an
tar without o Sacrifice. It was time,
,erefore, for the Catholic voice to speak
ut plainly, and tell Professionals, both in
De and out of Ritualism, what our opinion
its pretences, and contempt for its con-
ascending overtures, is and has been.
onsignor Capel's sermon on Sunday last,
the London Pro- Cathedral, nailed the
'se imposture down firmly and fnally.
g denounced it for it's organized dishon-
ty in aping Catholicity, but in the garb
Professionalism. Earnest as the RituaIists
ight be, he declared they had not shred
authority for their astounding carica-
res of the Roman ritual, except what they
'sired from themselves; and not only did