The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-16
CONSTANTINE, Card. PArR1zr, Vicar-Gen-

| ANSWER OF THE PRoCURATOR GENERAL OF
| THE COURT OF APPEAL IN ROME.
| 1t being part of my Office to watch
! over the press, the Procuratore de Re has
transmitted to me your Emipence's letter
tsoncerniDg some articles published in a
Roman journal on the Life of Jesus Christ,
letter that had already seen announced
| in the Osservatore Romano and the Voce
della Verita. understand the sentiments
which have determined your Eminence to
demonstrate against the publication of the
said articles, and can deplore with you
that discussions are made on principles ac-
cepted and professed by Catholics with the
ours. guided by the principles of liberty,
we cannot with approximations and process
es close the mouths of those who by con-
victica, or through passion, raise Giscus-
sions 81 at are not forbidden by the laws.
Your Eminence knows better than l that
in all times and in all countries, even I'M
der regime Of the preas less ample than
that now existing in Italy, there have been
such publications without the State think.
ing it necessary to interfere, and-permit
me to say-witheut lessening respect for
religion which rests on too finn q basis to
be shaken by similar attacks. Your Emil
nence moreover cannot be ig norant that
the I'd article of the law of the 18th May,
1871, proclaims full liberty Of discussion
on religious matters. How then eau judi
cial authority which should be inspired by
the laws only preveat such articles when
they do not exceed the limits of discussion
For the rest, let your Emiuence be persua-
ded that my office exercises rigorous su-
pervision over the press, and when it over
steps the boundaries set by law, has not
failed, and will not fail in the accomplish
ment of its duty. (Procura Generally
FRANCISCO GHIGLIERI" Therefore for
the future Christ may be publicly BIAS
-stSa
"deplore' but will neither check nor pun
ish.
NOTICE TO QUIT TO THE RELIGIOUS COM
MUNITIEs.
1t is also said on excellent authority that
when on Sunday last tbetter day better
deed) the Usher went round to the various
converts to give them the official notice of
the appropriation, he addressed some ter
rified nuns in these words -" You are
very creduous to think your God is om-
nipotent. IT he were, after what we nave
done to Him and are going to do to HIM,
He would have overwhelmed u.s."
DESTRUCTION OF OBJECTS OF ART.
And that you may see that the love of fine
ality of the regenerated city. After selling
at ridiculously low prices the objects of art
that were part of tho treasures of the
Monte di Pieta, they are beginning to strip
the chapel, one OF the most beautiful in
Rome, and one formerly visited by many
foreigners. The architect was Giovanni
Antonio dc Rossi, and it is said to have
cost two millions of lire, or ESQ 200. 1t is
entirely lined with the finest and rarest
marbles and has some fine sculptures. The
Holy Trinity is by Domenico Guidi, Tobi-
as is by LIE Gros. There are also four beau
tiful statues of Faith, Hope, Charity, and
Pity or Alnsgiving. Lately have been
sold for "a few francs, six candelabra and
cross in brass, but Cissellato" that is cut
and WORKED by hand, with the most exgui-
site taste. 1t is said the four fine statues
above named are for sale, if not all of
them. Certainly no care is new bestowed
on the building, and the rain is now spoil
ing the roof The other instance is more
the affair of certain personages, but it is
every where reported that the renowned
Quirinal gardens, tho summer pleasure
ground of Popes from Urban VIII, down
to Gregory XVI. and Pious TX. are ruined.
That the stoves and greenhouses of Greg |
DRY XVI. have been all made into stables, |
and that the magnificent vases of orange
trees ars t. be sold as old rubbish. The
OF Clement XII, erected over |
the eastern angle of the palace, the
work OF Ferdinaudo Fuga has been de- |
stroyed, and the cultivation of flowers has
been totally abandoned. This once beau
tiful, though quaint garden, embellished |
by a succession of Popes for Sunday even
ings, each after the fashion of his time, is
now a something between q wilderness and
q stable-yard. Bat VIC live in q utilitarian
age, and all this too is progress after it's
kind.-London Tablet.
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