The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-19
Cathollcisy In Republics.

ACo years In inc way Oh pVpAic tnVAoheJ
hat crest many men are getting discour- g
aged with it. They begin to feel that self {
10 failure, and that it might q
be better after all to fall back on the old {
fashion Of monarchy, bad as IL may be. '
These people are not exclusively Protest I
ants OF Catholics; they are timid or de
spondent people Of any, or no, religion.
We address ourselves at present to Cath
olics Of this class and request them to read
the following extract from Father Burke's
recent splendid address in Cork. He says:
And now my frisnds such Is the present Of
gorSus
u anS Sranok Of the Church, for
shey Of epinion amongst them Obedience
to the Holy Church of God, love for the
Chu,ph's head and centre, the Pope Of Romei
nsnSs Y1 Head 81 sas
Church, their mother, these are resolved and
10 the most glorious in Its unity Of sll the No
Gross Of Jesus Christ. A glorious Church |
niason " sss Tsissd States destined to
that sas .s g's%pgs %ies
m me- - have encountered many Of different
nationalities-the most intsllectual, the most
fervsnt the most simple minded ana TenG'9 9Ss
ssought ~ tho energy Of their Rig,iS%
they brought their logged Anglo-saxon deter
Mutation tina, having aeon the traths, they
ehall stand by IL to The end and they WIN hght
ss IT, sss sssr 1ss
sannss ospu arRI X Massashnsests itself
statesman Of lmerica said . few years ago
!" In TWENTY-FIVE years believe che great mass
Of our pop9)ation win DO Roman Catholic.
Now we do not say that this progress of
= lthe church 10 the result Of our form Of gov
ernmeat; because, though this Republic is
3 the freest of all countries in religion, an
! other Republic is the most Syrannical and
4 Oppressive. Switzerland is to-day the
most active and intolerant Of all the perse-
cutors Of our Holy Church. But 1t shows
Chat Republication is perfectly compatible
y with religious liberty.
Father Burke's facts, however, shoV
). more than this. He speaks not only OF tn
progress made by the church, but of some
. thing still far more suggestive. He say
% distinctly that the American Church 10 tn
70 Sc most united Of all the branches Of tn
Holy Catholic Church )" that Ito episcopacy
lie clergy and its laity have less dissensio
H. thsn elsewhere; that loving obedience t
y Ithe Pope is, With 1t, matter Of course.
= Now, We AJAX eandidly il this does nc
Apeak well for Republicsnism. Not that
permits statutory freedom to the Church
at for that is might refuse, but that its atnoi
n phere 10 40 little hostile to the true spirit
OF Che Church, and permits its moral freedom
NJ a. we'll. Many persons, who are prejudice
Against self government, fancy that ita ma
uraI influence 10 to make mem self-relial
~. and FESTIVE under authority-men WI
~ easily become disobedient and rebellion
en- Such being the case they would natural
'ie make refractory and ungovernable Chri
tians. -.
Facts show that the result is just Il
&C. reverse Of this. Americans are indeed se
ern reliant, as is shown by their energy
On, business and their active partizanship
ess politics, but this self-reliance 10 total
s =. distinct thing from Righteousness. On
- contrary, authority 10 so much the me
= esteemed among them that 1t 10 not impS
cd on them BY force, but exists from tn
own consent. Men in such circumstan'
day get q habit Of willing, cheerful obedieE
let, 10 an authority which they know is I
'ns' o usarpation, aud that habit of ODE
, ss dence easily transfers itself to an autho
80 " which they know to be legitims
and though it is not based at all on their c.
for sent.
the Thus We fnd Americans the most o.
who dent, the least refractory, of all Cathol
tho Under a monarchy, people acquire
habit of grumbling against authority.
is not Of themj they are not Eesponai
rs.- for it or its blanders. They regard y
itu- some extent, a. an enemy, or at least
o be hard masssr. Unwilling, grunbling @
I its iects, they easily beeome questionil
theE caviling Cashoileas
from Long since. PiGS TX sald that
alth was mors Pope In tho UnItea States q
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