The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS.
To Juno 7th.1


man governmental regions by the fact that
the Catholic religion is more OF less re.
presented in the new French GoverDment,
that the semi official organs affect to doubt
the pacific character of the foreign policy
of the latter and some people have sought
in the Language of Marshal ,MacMahon's
Message pretext for suspending recogni-
ton Of the new Government until that Ian :
guage is explained. But in the first place
! no such recognition is required. 1t is not,
technically speaking, a revolution which
has occurred in France, but mere change
of Government. Aud the sovereign, which
is the Assembly, remaining unmoved, there
would have been no need, one would have
imagined, for new credentials on either
eide. Next the expressions of the Message
have been laboriously misinterpreted d..
Marshal MacMahou is represented as say
ing that he trusted to the army for the
liberation of it's territory, which is inter
preted as menace of war. What he really
said was, that, g with the aid of God, the
devotion of the army, which will always
be the Of my of the law, and the support of
all honest men, we will continue together
the work of liberating the territory, and
restoring order throughout tie country"
The task of the President and the Assem-
bly, is said to be 10 complete the liberation of
the territory aud to restore order, and it is
in the performance of this task that the
President looks to the army to support him.
The very phrase, (Which will always be
the army of the law" proves that it is as
a safeguard against internal violence and
against resistance to the sovereign legisla.
tive power of the Assembly, and not as an
aggressive and reconquering folce, that
the President counts on the army to help in
the liberation of the soil. That work is
not spoken of as a new one, or one to be
accomplished in new way it is work
in which the present Government and the
Assembly are to Continue" to CO operate.
No, hing can be more unfoundcd than the
fears which certain portion of the German
press affects to entertain. The alarm, is
evidently raised for the purposes of the
anti-Catholic agitation. Among the de-
vices for arousing feeling against the new
Government in Germany was a report in
dustriously circulated that the Pope had
received the first notification of the change
of Government, and that the other powers
were left without official intimation of it.
ccLEsIAsTIcAL ORGANIZATION IN BERNIE.
In Switzerland, too, all kinds of similar
rumors are rife. The adherents of the
party in power profess uneasiness, an
nounce the approaching recall of M. Ian
frey, and actually go so far as to state
that the Federal Government has declared
that it will not receive a Minister of.scleri-
caW opinions in his place. 1t might GER
tainIy be inconvenient to have an official
Catholic witness of what is going on in
Canton Berpe, and specially in the Jura
stipulatons for tue freedom of the Catholic
religion. There the Executive Coun-
ell has just laid before the Grand
Council of the Canton its new law
on the Reorganization of cultes." First,
the Executive Council is to have the abso-
lutte power of suppressiug or creating par
ishes, and the superintendent and control |
of the ra1Ipinns ipafructiou of bo
and of the divine service and the .scelebra,
ton of Sundays and festivals" is to be |
vested in the parochial council. The par
ish priests are to be elected for six years
if not re- elected they are to have three
months notice to quit. The Government
ected. In order to be elected, the priest
must have applied for and obtained from
Government ad v1ission into the Order (sic) of
Bernese clergy, and to this end must study |
N a new Catholic school of theology to be |
to the Cantonal university and
when admitted into to this "Ordern he is
bound to active ecclesiastical service"
and can only obtain leave of absense from
he Ministry of Public Worship. Lastly,
lie supreme authority in the Protestant
is to be the Synodal Council.
nut for the Catholic Church neither Bish
Up nor Pope, but the "Cantoual Catholic
presided over by a person
lamcu bOueuueluleTJ ueau OF the DUlIIn-
,erists at Berne, and composed of several
'ther partizans of the same faction. The
clergy and people are forbidden all inter
course with the Catholic Bishop, and forci-
by suhjt c:ed to the spiritual government
# committee of non-Catholics, to use the
nildest term.
ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES IN FRANCE
Whether the new French Government ia
likely to make any protest in favor of Swiss
we know not. At home it is
occupied in the useful but prosaic work
# purifying the administration, and it is
worth observing that even the Times
Own Correspondent acknowledges that
his wants purifying. "It is impossible, :"
8 he says, ito accept the assertion made
y certain supporters of NJ. Theirs that
here were no Objectionable persons, no
Red Republicans or Socialists, in the public
ervice, but that all were Repu blicans ola
n"derate stamp, whom the late Govern
rent would not have felt itself justified in
emoving. The list of dismssals which ,
he Gazette has contained certainly includes
nen whose past career did not entitle them
0 serve under a Conservative Government.
The wonder then, is that they were retain
d in Office by NJ. Theirs, and that thew
we're 80 unquestionably one of the causes
f his fall" And the result of the onera