The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-03

arbitrarily deprives all the Cures for even
recognizing the Bishon, while the Colleges
of POrrentruy and Delemont, which, ac-
cording to another clause, are to be pre-
| served as Catholic institutions with Catho-
| lie professors, are turned into mixed
schools. 1t has been argued that the Trea-
| ties of Vienna are no. longer in force, but
that 10 no bar to the moral claim on France
possessed by population which was de-
for it's religious liberty. The violation of
| that liberty could not have been more fla
grant or excessive if no such sGipulations
had ever been made.
CATHOLICS AND PROSECUTORS IN swIrzER-
LAND.
a The Catholics of Switzerland have ad-
dressed a most numerously signed memo
rial to the Federal Government in remon-
STRANGE against the illegal and unconstitu-
tional expulsion of Mgr. Mermi1lod, speci.:
! ally insisting on the fact that The spiritual
! functions of Vicar Apostolic have never
been treated as "official functions" the
exercise of which by appointment of
any foreign authority'i it is Intended to pro-
hibit by an act of e1 post facto legislation.
/ The document will serve as a protest
! against deed of the most arbitrary iDjus
| tice; but in the present temper of the
8 wiss Federal Government it is scarcely to
be hoped that it will have any practical
effect, At the same time the Government
of the Canton of Geneva is preparing a law
for the regulation, that is for the virtual
suppression, of the Catholic Church within
its territory and the schismatics, with
NM. Loyson, Hurtauit, and Herzog at their
head, are about to hold a conference at
Berne, with view to the convocation of q
! quasi Synod.
CHURCH AND STATE IN HUNGARY.
1t passes our capacity to understand why
Governments make SO much fuss about the
publication in this or that diocese within
their territory of dogmatic DEGREES; as the
| solemn publication of such decrees-those,
for instance, of the Vatican Council-does
not make the DEGREES one whit moro bind
and as, in these days of general diffused in
formation, such DEGREES are universally
known, it cannot possibly matter to a Gov
eminent whether Bishop embodies them
in pastoral or not. The Hungarian Cabi-
net, however, has been following the I'M
| sephism in this respect. The Bishop of
Rovnys, having published the Vatican de-
crees in a pastoral, has been Feprimanded
by the Minister of Public Worship. But
that is not all. Some of the extreme anti
Catholic members of the Diet have attack
ed the Government for not having also de-
posed the Bishop-in Hungary, as in
Switzerland it seems to be believed that
the deposition of Bishops from their sees
is within the competence of tho civil power.
The Minister took advantage of this move
of the opposition to propose committee
to report on the relations of Church aud
State, and M. Deak made speech explain
atory of the policy which he and his in
fluential party will support. Their aim is
complete separation of Church and State,
such as that which exists in the United
States, but in Europe this can only be re-
allied by degrees, and must be attempted
with as little appearance OF offence as pos
sible. He would not, for instance, vote for
tho exclusion of the Bishops from the Up.
per House, but would propose that no off.
cial position should give right of sitting
there, a measure which would exclude the
Bishops indirectly, and less inyfdiously.
He would desire that eventually the
the Church and State, the share of the latter
being devoted to educational purposes, but
before that he would advocate the speedy
introduction of compulsory civil marriage.
Aud here the Pail Mall Gazette, which
gives more detailed account than had ap.
peared elsewhere in the English press, at
tributes to NJ. Deak an argument which we
must confess we do not understand. He is
said to have observed that optional and
not compulsory civil marriage should be
regarded with disfavor by the clergy as
savouring of insult to their order" In
the first place the objections to compulsory
civil marriage have nothing to do with any
insult to the clergy, but rather with an
enforcement Oh the laity of an act incon-
sistent, lift means anything, with the duty
of Christian. And how it can be c6nsid-
cred worse f" insult" to the Church that
people who do not believe in religion
should be allowed to marry without reli- !
gion, than that people who do believe in
religion should be forced to marry in a way
their religion condemns, is to us quite uu-
ineligible.
THE DUTCH AND GERMAN scHrsM.
After the death of the unfortunate Arch
bishop of the Jansenists ia Holland-their |
See of Haarlem being also vacant-the |
whole hopes of the schismatic succession as |
well as of the conservation of DR.. Reinkens
by Bishop of that communion lay in DR.. |
titular Bishop of Deventer, and
actually, as there are no partisans of the
schism in that diocese, Incumbent of
schismatic Church at Rotterdam in the do
cese of Utrecht. 1t has been stated that
DR.. Heykamp was to be the new Arch
bishop, and also that he was ready to con-
secrate the Bishop of the German schsmat-