The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-17

| PoAoAAt oe' VAIL tu0 uEtDUub, Il nVTRbu,
Ticino, Vaud, Neuchatel, and Geneva. By
| this act the Central Power will be so en-
| oImously strengthened and the Cantonal
autonomies 30 curtailed, that the imposi-
ton upon the Catholic Cantons of all the
measures destructive of the Church's ex-
| istence, which the authorities at Berne and
Geneva have already applied where they
were uhdisputed masters, will be rendered
possible. Even the Journal DIES Debats ad-
mits that the religious or -" confessional A"
articles of the new Constitution are utterly
inconsistent with just idea of religious
liberty. The Jesuits are excluded from the
whole of Switzerland-this, however, was
the case already-all other societies sup
posed to be affiliated" to them-we need
not say there are none-are equally ban
ished,j no new converts of any order may
be erected, and existing communities are
condemned to extinction through q pro-
hibition to receive noyices. But this is
nothing to what follows (; the Church is
forbidden to infct any, even spiritual,
censures, and the Bishops may not exclude
from their communion one who has fallen
into heresy or remove revolted priest
from his ecclesiastical functions.
THE GERMAN PERSECUTION.
Persecution of tho Bishop OF Nancy-It
is difficult to see what practical object the
German Government can propose to itself in
citing the Bishop of Nancy before it's court
at Severne for the Pastoral which was
read in the German parishes of his diocese.
In the fret place, the Bishop has distinctly
repudiated the meaning which has been at
tached to his words, and has denied that
his Pastoral has any reference whatever to
the reconquest of the annexed provinces.
And, secondly, as the French Government
has carried out the stipulations of the treaty
of peace, and has applied to the Holy See
for "rectification' of the ecclesiastical
frontiers, SO that the annexed parishes will
eventually be detached from the See of
Nancy, there is still less reason for press
ing the matter in a vindictive and vexa-
tious manner. The Holy See has offered
no opposition to the proposed alteration in
the diocesan boundaries, and if the affair
has not yet been finally settled, it is the
fault neither of Rome nor of France, but
rather of Germany which having no re-
preventative at the Vatican, has not vet,
so it is said, formally and officially signified
Its concurrence in the request which has
1een preferred by France. As far as the
ne has acted throughout in the most con-
ciliatory manner, and has endeavored to
disabuse the German Government of its
misrepresentation first through the French
Minister of Public Worship, Chen M. Bat
bie) who replied that he would not fail to
make the German Government acquainted
with his 1.-THE Bishop's) generous senti
ments," and next through the President of
Nets, Count Won Arnim but the Berlin
authorities, apparently resolved to lose no
chance of making war upon Bishop. push
ed the matter on, prosecuted thirty six
priests for reading tho Pastoral, and have
now prosecuted the Bishop himself Mgr.
Foulon, being out of the country, of course
did not appear, and the first report was
that he was condemned to a fine the Sc
cond, however, that the Court had not yet
made known its decision, and there the
| matter rests.
And Of the archbishop of Otmutx-The
same question has been raised on the from
tier between Prussian and ustria, though
in different manner, the Archbishop OF
Olmutz, in Moravia, having been fi1ed by a
Prussian Court for appointing two priets to
parishes in the Silesian part of his do
cese.
More Arrests.-In Germany the impris-
onment of the Bishop of Paderborn is
supposed TO be imminent, an attempt to
place fresh execution in his Episcopal
residence having resulted in the discovery
that there was nothing left to be seized
The Canon Woyciechowski, official - OF
the diocese of Gnesen, was arrested last
week-it is not known on what charge,
perhaps for some act implying a non-re.
cognition of the Archbishop's pretended
deposition-but the tribunal allowed him
a respite till Monday.
The Pope,s Allonutiona