The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1873-08-24
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS.
ITO August End
FRANCE.

on MOntTartre to be work OF puollc uti-
lity, and thus authorizing the necessary ex.
propriations, was voted at the eId OF last
week by $3.50 votes to I46. But before it
passed an incident occurred which has ex-
cited good deal of irritation. The draft
contained in the report by Mr. heller.
which was adopted by Committee, sPeci-
ficalIy ordered that the Church to be built
should be dedicated to the Sacred Heart.
But an amendment. having been proposed
by Mr.. Bigot and signed by seventy -one
deputies, by which the original draft pro,
posed by the Government was substituted
for that of Mr., Keller, the Committee re-
solved to alter it's own Bill by leaving the
question of the dedication entirely un-
| touched. It was in this form that the Bill
passed, and the apparent concession to the
anti Catholic party was made the suoJect
of a severe article in the on,on, against
tested in letter addressed to that paper.
We confess that the scruples which dlcta-
ted the suppression of the dedication to
the Sacred Heart are to US perfectly unin-
telligible. We presume that the deputies
who advocated it had q sort of vague idea
that the omission might conciliate certain
number of opponents, and that they might
fairly reconcile it to themselves by the
consideration that the choice of the dedi-
cation might be left to ecclesiastical aut-
thority. But this did not prevent opPosi-
ton, as we shall see presently, and the
| argument that there is no State religion in
France is worth absolutely nothing. If
available at all, it would tell against giving
permission for the construction of an ex-
clusively Catholic church, not against the
But as tho Assembly was about to enact
that the church should be devoted in per-
petuity to Catholic worship, to refuse to
sanction q specially Catholic dedication of
it was absurd /; for we do not offer the de-
puties who opposed the dedication the in
| hat fhav nf
inion of NJ. Tolain-an opinion shared by
some of the English papers-that the de-
votion to the Sacred Heart is not a Cath
olic devotion. Mr.. Veuillot amusngly
suggests that if the Archbishop of Paris
wished to be malicious, he might dedicate
came to Our Lord "by night, for fear of
the jews" "He foresaw that Our Lord
would be accused of finterferencei in politics,
and wished for the moment not to compro-
mise himself. Subsequently he was con-
verted, and was belder at the Sepulchre
Let us wish," concludes Mr.. Veuillot, "the
: same happiness for our prudent friends"
Attacks on Derotion to the Sacred Heart
), MIR. Tolain who took this opportunity tc
t declare the eternal hostility of the RED
>, | to the "Black Observation-Disclosures by
r. the latter term the Catholic Church-wa
;, not at all pacified by the suppression o
10 the dedication. 1t was notorious, he ar
1t gued, that the dedication to the Sacre,
Heart would be that chosen by the Arch
g, bishop, and the Assembly had much bette
u have spoken out, and said what it reall
-, meant. In this we agree with him, but b
~ went or to assail this devotion in term
III which we had rather not quote. To sho
rs with how much intelligence and knowledg
US this kind of attack can be conducted, W
must refer to an English contemporary
Ii which maintains in a leading article ths
in the devotion to the Sacred Heart, has bee
NV
ne and is, therefore, not a Catholic devotion
and to the correspondent of the Pail Ma
in Gazette whose letter published on Saturda
,b- informs US that Mr.. Tolain lat last su
ty. ceeeed in reading to the Chamber VIII
~, the present Bishop of Aurerre wrote abol
l' the miracle invented by Marie Alacoque
'9s What MIR, Tolain read was q very unfavo
rse able opinion on book, The Life Of Mar
me- Aldcoquc, and the author of it was certain
of ly not the present Bishop of Auxerre, f
ers there has been no Bishop of Auxerre sin
the alteration of the French dioceses
iii Plus VII. Mgr. de Caylus, Bishop of Au
erre, who is quoted by name both by Il
to French speaker and the English write
the was Jansenist prelate of what Mr.. Tola
calls the ''great epoch" The attitude
that parsonage towards this devotion W
only just what might have been expect,
from him, and this can no more be adduc,
as an argument against its Catholic chara
ooo ter than can the attacks which the "Co
"'' stitutional" Bishop Gregoire was alwa
de- directing against it. These controversial
:, lists, who seem to know better than t
~ Catholic Church what Catholic doctrine
ST. appear utterly to ignore the fact that Il
nd Feast of the Sacred Heart ia a regular fe
The tival ofthe Church, and that the devote
of to the Sacred Heart is not only n necessa
on logical consequence of Catholic belief, b
10. that it has received all the sanction al
~ recognition which the Episcopate throug
VI ont the world and the Holy See itself c;
give, and is as much an established Cat
hat olic devotion as any other.
ON Mr.. de Cd=cnore de Pradines'S Notion.
ten Mr.. Tolain was answered in a very eloque
Ain speech by Mr. Chesnelopg, who took Il
M line that the Assembly could not be e
. pected to follow the speaker into theol
gcal discussion, however absurd b
lal statements might be, and Mr.. de Cazeno
at de Pradines attempted to neutralize Il
en- effect of the alteration in the b
" by moving that the Assembly shou
~ be officially represented at the layiu
- of the first stone. He was ouly support,
by about a hundred members, but Il
Right will doubtless be we'll representt