The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-10-18
LErrFR FROM ROME.
THE JEsU1rs AGAIN PLUNpERED.

ROME, Sept. I9.-Some time ago the Mar
quis Federico Fagnani died in Milan,
leaving all his property to the Jesuits to
found schools and colleges. The italian
Government claimed his property under
the recent laws of conversion and suppress
sion. Father Beckx, General of the Order,
disputed the claim of the Government on
the ground that the Order of Jesuits was
one belonging to all the world, and conse-
qnently that the suppression of the Jesuits
| first in Lombardy, and afterwards in Italy.
did not destroy the rights of the Order to
schools outside Italy. The case was de-
cided against the Jesuits in the Court of
First Instance, in the Appeal Court, and
finally in the Court of Cessation in Turin.
There is no further appeal, and the prop
erty goes to the Government.
PROGRESS OF ISOLATION.
Ninety seven converts have been up to
the present date seized by the Giunta
Lqutd1trice, and the pension orders deliv-
cred to the expelled inmates of religious
houses are ,l29, for q gross sum of 964 1892
lire and fifty centesimi, being an average
for each pensioner Of 462 lire and eight
centesimi, or something under sixteen
pounds English per head. Forty three of
the converts we're taken by Government
for public Offices or barracks, eight were
given to the Roman Municipality, one to
the provincial authorities, and one, the
COllegio Romano, to the Minister for Public
Instruction. To the MiRerva Library were
brought the number of 59,24S volumes,
taken from the libraries of the suppressed
converts. The amount of church property
sold by thu Giunta came to IL, 250,35
GENERAL CONGRESS OF SCHOLARSHIPS IN
BOLOGNA.
The schoolmasters of Italy met in Con-
gress at Bologna have pronounced against
religious Instruction in public schools. The
resolution voted by the Congress asserts
" the incompetency of the State to impart
instruction in dogmatic religion in public
elementary schools, and would leave to the
Municipalities, if request be made by fami-
lies, the faculty of regulating such instruc-
ton in the mode which they may consider |
most opportune." Among those members
of the Congress who were in favor of reli- |
glous teaching was jew, who advocated,
on grounds of propriety and civilization, |
the retention of the Catechism. He proba-
bly, was of the opinion of the Protestant |
Guizot, who at page ten of his work on |
The Church and Christian Society says /:
" That civilization, which under various |
forms and in equal degrees is developed in |
all the States of Europe. and which ia |
about to conquer the world, is essentially |
Christian" The Marquis Pepoli, Senator |
of the Kingdom, also sustained the pro-
priety of religious teaching on political and |
social grounds.
TAX UPON CHURCH AIMS
Not content with expelling the monks |
and nuns, expropriatipg their converts and
selling their properties, the fiscal agents of
the Italian Government claim the right of
subjecting to income tax the offerings made
at the celebration of Mass. The unfortu-
nate clergy seem doomed in Italy to per-
petual poverty and harassing prosecutions.
At present there is no legal decision which
can determine the question whether collec-
tons after Mass are to be considered as
aims. 1t was decided by the Court of
Appeal at Florence in the case of the Com
mittee of the Anglican Chapel that the
true and proper aims are exempt from tax
alton.