The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-01-19

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spoken, and defy the whole world to fdg- E
tradict mo In one word OF my speechy vi
: She alone ancreate unity, becanso shej
alone will permit no man to- tontradiGs 1eE. Il
As abe heA her message from Cog, sn0 es
That message must be "a trne as'Go WY
sent it, the man who contradicts her must
b q lisr. he must be an enemy Of the
tFnth and contradictor of the train, ano
the moment he raises his voice agAtpst the
church, though he were the nrst o. ner
bishops or the most powerful klpg ap tnet
world, the church shuts his mouth with
her bands and says: "Kneel down and
else let the curse of excommun-
ication be upon you. Begone to wieher
and die, and fall into hell" 81 II
What is the great difficulty with the
nations to-dayf For fifteen hundred years
tho nations were united in their falth. NO
nation was Christian that was not also Cav
olic. But Luther came and the natlons
we're divided. One of the most celebrated
and greatest statesmen that ever lived was
william Pitt, Earl of Chatham, who govern
ed as prime minister, England and !reiand'
,inS 1900, the year that Lord Castiereagn,
tk1oaA made the unions between England
and Ireland. Pittwas decidedly one OF ehe
greatest minds in Englandyet hewas ootig>
ed to resgin the premiership because he dc.
clared he could no longer govern England
and Ireland because the people were dlv;ded
Catholics that he would grant them eman-
cfpation in 1s00-twenty mine years before
bit VIA forced-he pledged his almost royal
word that it should be done. Bu6 as soon
as ID was known In England, and as soon az
Protestant Ireland knew it, they stirred
such a clamor that the very greatest man
En- the three. Kingdoms resigned his posi-
ton, and declared that it was Impossible TO
govern a people divided in religion; Two
hundred years before, in l64O, Charles
promised fo relax the penal laws again st the
Catholics. ~ He saw their injustice. Inc
such ,,was the turmoil and the threats that
the King was Obliged to break his royal
WORD and put his broken promise in his
tpockes, a6d7Iet she misery go on. -,
oFhe present Prime Minister Of England
lisa Every fair-minded man, if they would
only, let him. - He sees the inj9stice with
which are se ae
ilap6 lsas ats end 6wment and it's charter,
when, the whole, Irish nation found uni
| yersity in Ireland, they. refused to give
I them charter. They didn't ask for half
! penny, 0aly q charter Gladstone would be
/ glad To- do it. buthe is afraid. One Of the
srandest ideas of this age of ours was the
utilization of Germany. Bismarck, man
\ Of wonderful genius, conceived that idea
and carried IL out practically-a magnif-
4 cent achievements. but he is 30 short
sighted as to be now at work exasperating
sixteen millions Of the German people who
are Catholics by prosecuting their religion,
shutting mp their schools, driving out their
| INNS and Jesuits, and shutting their hos
pitfalls. He is doing foolish thing; but he
| can't help it, because the nation decided
he must doit 1mast say as student OF
history, that while they lay to our doors the
1 charge of persecution, nowhere do we read
in the annals Of the world of persecution
carried ON with 80 much gusto and enjoy
ment as the prosecutions of Protestants
when they have the upper hand. You see
in Ger .sy dhs S.s ,Sa,
exercise their power pitilessly.
/ How easy it would be for Bismarck tc
avoid all this, if Germany were again ali
Catholic, as she was under Charles V. How
!, easy il would be for Gladstone to govern
, religious faith; fur when this great screw
, in the political union is loose, the whole
machine is rickety, and ia liable to come tt
pieces at once aud the Catholic Church
alone can create it. And yet men say that ths
! Catholic Church is dangerous to America
The Catholic Church vii be dangerous tc
America when disuniop, mutual distrust ant
} mutual disaffection becomes one of the ele
, ments of the greatness of q nation and no
until then. The next element of greatness
l power and strength in 8 nation, is the vir
\ tue of purity. Every evil, every sin, IN th'
AAssSA-
. no matter how pleasant it may be at tn
r moment, and every act committed by a ma
i, ton, as we'll as an Individual, Injuries th
nation as we'll as the Individual IN the Ion
. run, although, o hundred years may elapse
. the punishment may be traced back to tn
Q crime that causedit +.
+, The vice of impurity has this popularity
j that it is destructive not only of the indi
q vidual but of the race and it is noticeabl
s that though In Furnishing other crimes CO.
visited individuals, in Furnishing this H
d has afflicted the whole nation. The flood
' and the destruction of Sodom and Gomor
t rah were quoted by the lecturer as exam
8 Piles Of this principle.
Father Burke here drew beautiful pic
8 ture of the church, the spouse of Christ
D calling her ministers to serve at her alters
matchmaking of them as an essential quail
t ification a virgin body, allowing no hand t
3 assist in her holy rites, no voice to be rails
1 ed in her consecrated service, but those @
men and woman who could bring to Ihei
= work purity. He also showed how tn