The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-26

SSENGER, SUNDAY, OCTOBEI
Pastoral to the Prince-it has been now
said by desire of the Pope-and that he
had received q congratulatory reply. The
whole story 10 utterly false. The Arch
bishop has neither sent him his Pastoral,
nor received any. letter from him whatever.
Another is that the Holy Father has used
his influence with the Comte de Chambord
to induce him to make concessions-and,
as il this was not improbable enough, that
the General Of the Jesuits had undertaken
to render him pliable. The propagators of
these absurdities are 80 revolved that the
Prince is absolute and impracticable, that
rather than admit that he IL not they have
recourse to fctions such as these as an
explanation ready to their hand of any,
thing which may show him to entertain
large and reasonable views. Still more
upjustifable, if possible, are the false re-
presentations to which, as appears frem q
letter Of the Comte de Chambord to the
Vicomte de Rodez-Benavent, the Republi-
can propaganda is resorting in the South.
"People, he writes, Hcannot stoop lower in
order to procure arms against ne, and moth
ing is more unworthy the French charac-
ter. To be reduced in 1873, to evoking the
phantom of tithes, of feudal rights, of reli-
gious intolerance, of persecution against
brothers separated from Us in creed-what
more need say-the phantom of war
madly undertaken under impossible con-
ditions of government of priests, of the
aseendency Of privileged classes! You will
seriously answered."
e. You know that I am not q Party, and
that l Will not come back to reign by
means of Party. I need the cooperation
of all, and all have need of me-" 1t is re-
ported that by the end of this week the
Cnmfa ia Cha hor1 will ho- 81
Chateau de Gesvres, near Namur, . place
belonging to the Comte de Limminghe, q
distinguished Belgian, on-in-law Of the
late ID: Dumortier, at one time President
Of the Belgian Chamber Of Deputies. The
letter of the Comte de Chambord has made
them of half their weapons against him,
but it has sent the Funds up more than
half per cent.
CARDINAL DE BoNNEcHasE.
At this time of year and in the present
crisis OF affairs in France, the arrival of
Cardinal de Bonnecbose In Rome is q
tromraille for the telegraphic agencies. The
first thing that occurred to them was that
advise che Comte de Chambord to be less
improbable, and when that was positively
cont:adicted, and 1t was stated that his
journey had no political object whatever,
the next remor was that he was bent on
counselling the Holy Father to all up some
Of tho vacancies in the Sacred College, and
it was added that his Eminences representa-
tions were not successful. Every time
that well-known French prelate goes to
Rome, something of this sort is invented.
1t never occurs to the newsmongers that
the Cardinal may have business connected
with his own diocese to take him there.
THE PERSECUTION IN GERMANY.
The Government Is selling the church
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in which priests have been recently sp-
pointed to cures, and one after another the
appointments are declared to be invalid, in
one Instant where the parish priest has
been acting in that capacity, though not
formally appointed, for two years past.
has been deducted from his revenue, the
Bishops of Paderborn and Breslau are be-
ing prosecuted, and Mgr. Kubel, the ad-
ministrator of the Archbishopric of Prei-
burg In Baden, is fined 600 thalers for q
nomination in Hohenzollern Sigmaringen,
although the Prussisn ecclesiastical laws
have never been officially notified to him,
and the States disapproval Of the appoint
ment was not signified during the first
month, as the law requires, but after three
months delay. The persecution is now
beginning in the diocese Of Cologne, and
the parochial Council of Lamersdorf has
given noble anawer to the President of
the province. It declares that it recog-
nizes as it's lawful pastor the parish priest
named by the Archbishop, and viii ac-
knowledge no other so long as he-is not
Withdrawn either by God or by the Ordi-
nary of the Diocese. The parish priest
him self sent back the decree with the de-
claration that he bad seen it; that without
failing in his duty or his oath to the State
in matters which concerned tho State, he
was resolved to obey his Archbishop in
matters which concerned Jesus Christ and
His Church, from whom and not from the
State he had received his mission that
he would yield only to violence, and was
ready to bear with peace and resignation
all the consequences which the perform
ance of his duty might entail. 1t is ex-
pected that by May next all the removable
clergy Of the Rhine provinces, two or three
thousand in number, will be interdicted By
the State. The Lutheran pastors of Hano-
yer and of Hesse have protested against
the operation of the new laws.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROSECUTION AT BIENNR