The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-10-18
Record Of German Psrsssatioa.

their convent, but lately the Government
has sent several officials and police agents
to institute another examination. Thii
time the notice is to discover how many o.
the Religious are foreigners. The Order
as every one is aware, is obliged by rule tt
| the very strictest enclosure. Hence the
Mother Superior declares that she could moi
admit the inquisitors except by command
and In presence of her spiritual superior
A threat was then made that they would
enter by force. Eventually the Canon
Mary'Anski arrived on the spot, and in his
| presence the enclosure was violated, and
the cell of the Superior was entered, while
the principal Government official read the
| command of the Minister of the Interior
and OF Public Worship, that all the sisters
should leave the Imperial coil before the
expiration of eight days. There were
eighteen nuns in all, and ten of them being
foreigners have had to leave. So another
terrible danger has been averted from the
Empire by the great and sagacious States
man, Prince Won Bismarck
MYSTERIOUS cLEMENcY.
One little loop hole has been found in the
Falck Laws, through which several i'm
prlsoned priests have been discharged and
sent back to their parishioners. When a
parish priest dies those assistant-priests
who were appointed by him before the es-
Establishment of the May Laws are allowed
to continue their priestly functions after
his death. 1t is difficult to say what
motive the Government has for this un-
usual clemency. Perhaps it sees that the
persecution is going too far, or it wishes to
allay the intensely bitter feeling of the Ca
tholic population, and will try to attain it's
end by some slower but quite as sure
means. That the persecution is not abating
ia shown by the daily list of new arrests.
The Bishop of Paderborn is to share the
"a 0f $hn rotH hi 0f T.
removed from his See by order of the Civil
Court of Justice in Berlin.
HEssE AND THE FALcK LAWS.
obediently and humbly following in the
footsteps of Prussia. The Church Bill now
laid before the Hessian Parliament is a
faithful copy of the Prussian Church law.
The third Article runs as follows: "No
Church or Religious Association is per-
mitted to threaten, to decree, or to publish
any penalty or sentence, except such as
are of a purely religious character, or such
as have reference to exclusion from such
Church or Religious Association" In an
other Article the civil authorities have the
right givcn them to remove any ecclesiastic
who may act in opposition to the laws of
the land. These laws will, of course, be so
framed that to obey them will bring down
the anathemas of the Church, and to dis
obey them the anger OF the State.
THE PRESS LAW IN HESsE.
A Leipzig Socialist paper has let out that
the Hessian police and law agents have
secret orders to proceed with the utmost
severity against every Catholic paper
which may sin, even in the most trif1ing
way, against the spirit of the prees-laws,
and in fact zealously to find some fault If
otherwise none exists. How true and ap-
plicable is the answer which Goethe puts in
the mouth of Iphigenia to the King of Troy
when he appealed to the law to force her to
sacrifice the two strangers, Orestes and
Pslades: Most gIeedily we seize upon each
law which serves US as weapon for our
passions.
BISMARCK AND THE OLD CATHOLICS.
The Berlin Borsen Courier, National
Liberal paper, which. as rule, goes through
thick and thin to defeDd Prince Bismarck
and his associates, is little pleased with
the Old Catholic Conference at Frieburp.
Drawing parallel between the Disciples of
Ronge and the Old Catholics. it save
The opposition made against Papal In
faltibility by a few Catholics, theoloeians.
ranonlsts, and professors, and merchant
princes, has excited different kind of
feeling to that excited by Ronge and his
followers with whom the Old Catholics
have nothing in common but their hatred
OF Rome; and perhaps alsos and it seems
more than perhaps, the same end. Rouge
e.oped with the wife "f q rich merchant in
Hamburg, of the name of Mayer, leaving
his flock to dissolve itself with the utmost
speed into thing of the past In both
these movements we find the Government
using every means in its power to advance
them, and the people distressing the reli-
gious reforms thrust upon them by order |
of the authorities In the case now before
us there are many other grounds for our
want of sympathy; principally, however,
Their INDIGESTION, their constant wavering
lN.,, IL
belief in authority and scientific preten-
si"ns, and sophistcal dogmatizipg; added
to which is the absence os any leader pos
sessed of the gift of winning for himself
admiration aud enthusiasm, without which
no religious reform is possible. Granted
that man of Dollinger's incontestably
great scientific ability has joined them,
granted that other sincere, we'll meaning,
Good-natured men are in their ranks, still
these good Hatured people are but second
rate musicians. For singing the praises of
new religion very different men and quite
other means are wanted. Ii seems to us