The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-07
CATHOLIC DECEMBER 1873

|EENGEk, SUNUAI, UECEMDGI
St. German was allotted to Catholics by
the State-it was bound, indeed, py treaty
to provide one-but the Church at Berne
was built by the Catholics themselves.
arsMARck AND THE BISHOP OF KULu
Mousignor Marnitz, the Bishop of Kulu, |
in Prussian Poland, is prelate upon
whose tame submission to his despotism |
Prince Chancellor Bismarck fondly fancied
he could reckon. The wave OF State
tyranny has rolled on, unfelt, past his
Lordship's see, and it's Catholic population
were permitted to-exist unharmed In the
villages that cluster 80 picturesqueiy ABOUT
the Vistula on which Kulu is built. True,
however to his sacred trust, the moment
that State authorities dared invade his
spiritual rights, that moment the unootru-
| to guard the sheepfold from outrage. And
because of this-because that his Lordship
ia loyal to his vows of ordination and of
consecl ation-the National Gazette of Ber-
lin, one of the Bismarckian organs thus
wines over his delinquency" Amongst
nitz was the one upon whom the state
most surely counted, and of whom the
Ultramontane party was most afraid GID.
Monsiguor was at first q most loyal man.
1t seems, however, that now over Mon
sigpor Marnitz the Roman Curia has much
|
since we learn that in few days hence he
is about to defend himself before the tri,
bunals for nominating priest to cure OF
souls in his diocese" Yes, with Gods
help, the Bishops of the Catholic Church
will ss,.ways put the ls.ws G God oeiofe Tue
ordinances of man. "The Catholic pre-
lacy" sage CATHOLIC journalist, VIII mot not
country, but when that authority usurps
to itself the right of disposing of the con-
sciences of the prelacy, and to make laws
which in reality are not laws, inasmuch as
they are unjust and injurious TO the Church
of Jesus Christ, then the duty of ODE
sublime duty Of obedience to God, The
Christian martyrs ,oere martyrs, because
they loved and adored Jesus of Nazareth,
though imperial laws forbade them"
Their spirit breatbes and moves in the
Catholic Church to day. ~-~t
IRELAND.
Sir Charles Gavan Dufy.-A telegram
from London in some OF the daily papers
of last week announced that Sir Charles
Gavan Duffy was about to return to Ireland
, and to devote to the national movement
for Home Rule his most active energies and
, abilities. The bare mention of such pos.
J sible OF probable event, excited the most
intense interest here in Ireland. The au-
thority for the statement seemed vague OF
questionable; yet the wish, in this case,
being indeed parent to the thought, people
eagerly grasped at the news as true and
few incidents in the whole course of the
national movement created more OF hope
aRd exultation than the idea that those
splendid talents which raised our distin.
guished countryman to the position o.
: Prime Minister of a free, self governed
0 country, a Federalized portion of the EN-
pire, fifteen thousand miles away, were tc
: be restored to the service of his own land
! For ANNA Tina Dast we have had reason to
know that such an idea was being pressed
upen Mr.. Duffy by many friends, and by
various and strong considerations but
that he has decisively adopted IT., ID more
than we are at present warranted in saying
. Every consideration of a personal nature
y would keep him where he is. In euer,
e sense fortune has smiled upon him there
and a life of happy ease and independence
of public honor, and influence and fame
, has crowned for him in q new home the
q efforts that in hapless Ireland had brought
= only hardship and ill-requited pains,
a prison cell, and almost halter. Yet amids
all this, it is not wonderful that in his hear
q there turks the feeling that
( There's not the sweetest rose
But the brier at home that grows
Ia moro dear
. Aud mail after mail brings to him thu
news of Ireland rising once more, and ris
, ing with hope and heart and strength
and spirit which never previously, perhaps
were hers-as he notes the grand figure o
Isaac Butt towering in the foremost of th'
struggle, with the old familiar forms o
Daunt and Martin at his aide--we can vel
{ imagine how the heart of Gavan Du6y
: sweIls, and how, as the chained charger a
3 sound of the trumpet, champs and chafes
. eager to be in the midst of the fray, h'
would fain spring to the aid of the brav'
band who have awakened Ireland in he
i chains, and who are triumphantly leading
q nd