The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-10-25
dates 10 October Sal
TEE ENGLISH NARTYRs.

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dates 70 ossober sal
THE ENGLIsR MAKTYRs.
The preliminary process with view Il
martyrs is now approaching it's termination
and 1t is hoped that the final session In The
presence of the Archbishop may be held il
the course Of next week. The evidence
concerning the "fame" of the martyrs II
very copioas; and not only the martyrs
those whose deaths are recorded in Bishop
Chaloner's Missionary Priests" as well
as those who suffered in the reign of Henry
VIII, are comprised in the process
their number amounting, we believe, to
more than $50. As soon as the Ordinary
sent to Rome, in order that decision NAV
be taken as to the existence of sufficient
grounds for instituting an Apostolic process
| Of beatifaction.
THE BISHOP OF rApRRBoRN.
To the summons of the Government call
ing on him to resign his See, the Bishop of
Paderborn has sent the reply which was of
course expected from him. He tells the
PRESIDENT OF the province-who is, we be-
lieve, at least nominally Catholic-that
the acts for which he ia called upon to re-
nounce his bishopric proceeded from no
spirit of opposition to the State, but were
defensive ncts necessary for the perform
ance of bis duties. 1t is not opposing the
State, adds Bishop Martin, to abstain from
assisting In the execution of laws in carry
rying out which he could not take any part
without becoming wretched traitor
against the Church and perjured Bishop.
And he points out that in his recent pastor
ais, so far from doing anything to trouble
pubic peace, tranquility, and order, he has
done his best to preserve them. He cannot,
OF course, comply with the summons to
a fIInn
ny declaring that if the Ober President
thinks 1t for this reason his duty to prose-
cute him before the tribunal for ecciesias.
tical affairs, and if that tribunal should
actually pronounce his deprivation, he shall
declare that judgment to be completely null
ana Invalid, inasmuch as the authority of
the state did not confer upon him those
functions, and is, consequently, incompe.
tent to take them from him. The protest.
winch is based, on common sense as well
as religion, will of course be as Intellectual
as that OF the Archbishop of Posen.
THE PERSECUTION IN GENEVA.
The persecution in the Canton of Cen
eva has advanced a step during the past
month. Early in September the Govern
ment resolved to get rid of all the Catholic
lncumbents of the five and twenty country
parishes. It called on them accordingly to
take the illicit and schismaticaI oath pre-
scrioed by the law passed for this purpose.
ne cures, OF course, one and all refused,
and instead of tho ceremony of admins.
ferlng the oath, ti:e State Council had to
content itself on the day fixed with reading
the retusals and decreeing the deposition of
all the incumbents. The letters notifying
the PRONUNCIATION of this decree were sent
on at once, and the parish priests read
them to their focks on the following sun
day, stating at the same time that they
themselves would still be the only lawful
pastors, and that the secular power was
utterly incapable Of recalling jurisdiction
which it had not conferred. The problem
now to be resolved by the Superior Ec-
clesiastical Council" on whose shoulders
the Council of State has thrown the task,
ls to find twenty-five apostate priests to
I'LL the vacancies. The Government has
doubled the pay, but finds it, nevertheless,
extremely difficult to beat up recruits.
Ihey are not to be had on the spot, and
where; and then there are sometimes in.
convenient questions at issue between the
imported ecclesiastcs and the civil tribu-
nails of the country whence they come. An.
other difficulty, moreover, has to be met.
These gentlemen have sometimes what the
Geneva Eccieslastic Council considers very
ideas about their clerical
and do not like, as Pere Hya-
clnthe did not like, being treated as "reli.
gious employees" of the Government. They
talk vaguely about future Bishop, and d o
not quite feel comfortable at the Episcopal
authority being vested in Council COM
posed of one eel-grinder, one ex-cabmap,
q few haberdashers, a retired cheesemonger
four or five laborers, sprinkling of school
masters-ail Freethinkers-and only three
apostate priests Of their own sort. :,
CATHOLIC POPULATION AND ITS BISHOP. |
Mgr. Lothar Won Kubel, Bishop of Leuca, |
m N at 81 or nf kh<~
opric of Freiburg in Baden, has been re. |
;eived on his return to that city with an |
ovation, the object of which, even accord
ng to correspondent of the times, "wes
oerhaps something deeper than to give a
mere Hoch to Bishop Kubel after his few
lays absence" He had been assailed in
lis own city by Bishop Reinkens in a
peech of very coarse invective, in which
10 was styled IAN impostor of q Bishop"
no true Bishop, only q So called Bishop
" partibus intfdeliuns, placed in Freiburg
he consent of the Stata - and 90 Santh |