The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-04
AND MESSENGER SUNDAY

ment. Even in Pagan times, they remind
LAMA and his colleagues, blasphemy
against the national religion was severely
chastised. "The Greeks and Romans"
these Christian prelates add, "did not con-
found liberty, as some do in our day, with
the most unbridled license, and the per-
mission to insult with impunity all that is
true, just and holy in heaven and on
earth. We are religious said Cicero, 'aad,
therefore, we are free.'" But our Liberals
even Plato was Methodist, and Aristotle
superstitious. If Liberalism could triumph
in our lower world, we should see in all lands
such an era OF brutal tyranny on the ono
hand, and goddess impiety on the other, as
would surpass all that was ever witnessed
even in those pagan times when humanity
groaned under the intolerable burden of a
| life so full of bitterness and despair, that
the Creator descended upon earth to apply
the remedy which His compassion could no
longer refuse. When our Bismarcks and
Lanzas have Filed up their allotted meas
ure, He viii save US once more.
4 Scientific Fete at Romc.-The Perserer-
ana of Milan. speaks, in a moment of dis
traction, of profoundly learned man,
whose renOwn does honor to Italy" This
man is priest and Jesuit-the illustrious
p. Secchi. He has lately delivered two
| lectures in Rome on the solar phenomena,
of which he has perhaps a more exact
His appearance, Gays the Perseverance, was
scientific fete." P. Secchi is evidently
ignorant of the fact, announced every day
by our so-called philosophers. that religion
aud science are divorced. This is one of
the divorceries of modern scientists, upon
which they appear to pride themselves.
Yet, p. Secchi was able to excite the en-
tbusiasm of his audiences by stating the
fact, which they heard without surprise,
that he had received no more cordial en-
| couragment in his scientific pursuits than
that with which he had been honored by
Plus IN, and that it was to the munifi-
cence of this great Pontiff that the obser-
vatory Of the Roman College was chiefly
indebted for it's rich apparatus. Our phil
osophers tell the Church every day that
she is opposed to science, as our Liberals
tell Catholics that they are opposed to
liberty. And the foolish world believes
them.
The Spanish Chaos.-If we cross the Pyr-
enese, there is nothing to ole US for
what we leave behind. Here also the de-
cay ofevery pure tradition, and the tri-
uRph of miscreants whose only idea of
liberty is to refuse it to all who differ from
them, have been followed by hopeless
anarchy and lawlessness. A good part of
the world seems just now to be abandoned
to what is called "Liberalism," as if to af-
ford it an opportunity of counting the
benefits Of which that sy stem boasts to be
the fruitful source. Most people will be
disposed to admit that they have cost more
than they are worth. 1t may be very pro-
titable to a few successful a6venturers to
to have made war against loyalty and re-
ligion,- Though Serrauo, Topete, aud tLeir
fellow-conspirators have already modified
their opinion on that subject,-b no one
will seriously contend that the revolutions
which make few ignoble fortunes confer
benefit fha naonla in
they are accomplished. Spain was both a
happier and more powerful country
when she was Catholic to the core, and
knew how to fulfil the Apostolic precept
Gear God, honour the King" If Gam
BETA would be poor substitute for St.
Louis, or even for Henri w., Figperas is
ofmeaner aspect than Ferdinand or a
Charles V. But if people are foolish enough
to tolerate their new rulers, they deserve
no better. Yet the sympathy of the Eng
lish, who are SO wisely Conservative at
home, appears to be freely given to the
such words as the following that the Times
describes the gallant men who are striving
to restore the ancient monarchy of Spain,
III order that they may secure her ancient
liberties, and revive the religion which
made her of old the noblest nation in Eu-
rope. "An atrecious guerrilla is carried
on by an ignorant peasantry, infamed to
iAuae'clsLu ny q priesCnOOu scarcely less
ignorant than themselves" The "abomin-
able excuses" ofthe Royalist forces,-which
arc hippantly assumed, and which, even
if they were true, might be easily matched
by the atrocities of the Germans in France,
or the Americans in Georgia and Louisiana,
arc reproach to modern civilization,
and if English Catholics, including "persons
of wealth and station" contribute funds,
as we hope they will continue to do, to
support the royal cause, the Times, which
praised Serrano, and flatters Castelar, ad-
dresses to them the curious reproach, that
"they foment Rebellion" ! If, therefore, our
Republicans at home, aided, let US say, by
Fenians, should make war against Queen
Victoria, and Catholics should take up
arms, as they certainly would, in defence
of the throne, their loyalty would be rebel
hon. 1t is pleasant to lind the reckless
and incorporate language of the Times re-
buked in its own columns. In the same
number in which the words above quoted
occur, April Sth, we find letter from a
correspondent at Bayonne, dated the 9Th,
in which the writer says {: "With respect
to atrocities attributed to Saballs, and 9th