The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-03-15
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS.
- no FEBRUARY alBt.l
IRELAND.


the usual rules with respect to fasting and
abstinence, reminds Catholics that the CEN
sures of the Church had repeatedly been
pronounced against secret societies, which
tended to promote inGdelity, dissipation,
and were detrimental to the public good.
Benedict XIV, Plus VII, Leo XIII, and
Plus TX, and others, had accommodated
| all who had engaged in, encouraged, or
promoted them. Freemasons, Ribbonmen,
Finians, and Good Templars, or those who
took part in their meetings or balls, in
Cured the censure of the Church. The
Cardinal denounced them as the source of
many evils. Immodest representations in
degraded theatres sometimes witnessed in
this city, serving to excite bad passions,
and destroy Christian morals. all infdel
works, immoral poetry and romances,
should be carefully excluded from every
Christian house. Heads of fam lilies should
prevent their children from reading news
papers or reviews which contained irreli-
gious or immoral matter, or put under the
eyes of their readers the guilty details of
divorce or criminal cases. On the other
hand, the reading of religious works, and of
such good, scientific, literary, or historical
works, as were written without anti Cath
olics prejudces, should be encouraged and
promoted.
Pastoral Of the Arerbishop Of Tuam.-In
the course of his Pastoral, the Archbishop
of Tuam says :-"Of o undetermined min.
who has written his name with pencil of
light in the precious, because rare, list of
Ireland's benefactors, we could not venture
to speak but with respectful gratitude,
yet it has been to US subject of great
surprise that statesman of such keen in
sight into national character, and of such
comprehensive knowledge of Ireland's
history, could ever imagine that the Irish
Catholic people could ever accept his MEM
orable bill, ostensibly secular, but in
reality an infidel Education Bill, of which
the fate, SCATTERING one of the strongest
Governments on record, is an instructive
warning to future ministers. Intimately
connected with the interests of our reli-
gion is the necessity for restoring her ma
tive legislature, which was unrighteously
transferred to England. A Home Parlia-
ment is Indispensable, since there is no
hope of securing UNCONVENTIONAL education
in all it's branches from the English Par
lament, which is deeply infected with the
exclusively secular spirit of the age"
The Ne,y Lord Chief Baron.-We have
much pleasure in announcing that the
Right Hon. Christopher Palles, Attorney
ed, the vacant Lord Chief Baronry of the
Exchequer. The new Chief Baron is one
of the youngest men who has ever attained
so high a dignity. Born in 1881, he was
| called to the Bar in 1858, appointed
| Queens Counsel in 1865, Solicitor General
forwards, on the accession of Baron Dowse
to the Bench. The Court of Exchequer
will have, in its new President, a man,
| who, to the most stainless character unites
abilities of the highest order. and an al
most unrivaled store of legal erudition.
For the sake of the City of Dublin, Of all
suitors in our supreme Courts, and of the
| best interests of the nation, we are heartily
rejoiced that for the present the pernicious
| object of cutting down tho Irish judicial
| ~
course, the Conservatives will not think of
reducing the number of judgeships and
| when, chastened by experience and exclu
sion from Office, the Liberal party returns
to power, we venture to say that it will
carefully avoid such dangerous and irrita-
ting parsimonies as the proposed abolition
of the Irish Common Law judgeship. The
present condition of business in tho Land
ed Estates Court shows how foolish is the
long delay in filling up the second judge
ship there, and we trust that this appoint
ment will also be made before the Gov
eminent lays down the reins of Office
EreemaanS Journal.
Death of the Very Rev. James O'heane.
We regret to announce the death, after
an illness of few days, of the Very Rev.
James O'keane, for many years senior of
St.. Patrick'ss College, Maynooth. This
townstewart, in the county of Tyrone, in
the year 1925, and was educated at Foyle
College, Londonderry. In August, 1870,
he entered as an ecclesiastical student of
the diocese of Derry, the College of St.
Patrick's Maynooth, to which he remained
attached, till summoned to his eternal re-
ward. He died, fortified by oil the rites
of the Church, at an early hour on the
morning of the 10th inst. r. I. P.
THE CATHOLICS OF THE JURA.
In the Jura district the persecution is at
its height. On the pretext that the intrud-
ed schismatical clergy were badly received
by the populace, and that these "disor-
ders" were instgated by the deprived
priests, the latter, as we have already said,
have been banished from the Canton. The
Prussian authorities in Alsace and the per-
scouting Government of Soleure have, of
course, refused to give them hospitality,
and they have been obliged to cross into
France, accompanied by their sorrowing
Pensioners part of the way, and, in many
cases, as far as the frontier. The popula-