The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-25

oCGNUEhs SUNDAIs JANUAh1
The Cardinal Archbishop OF Dublin and tho Ger
man Persecution.
The following Pastoral has been address
ed by his Eminence the Cardinal Arch
bishop to the Catholic clergy, secular and
regular, Of the diocese Of Dublin
every Row. Sir,-Feelings of gratitude
oblige us, in union with Catholics of the
world, to be most thankful to God for bav-
ing placed in the chair of st. Peter, in these
times, PontiR 80 holy and edifying in his
life az Plus TX, 30 jealous for the glory of
God, and so firm and courageous in de-
Tending the rights of the Church, PontiR
who, In most difficult and troubled times,
has won the respect and admiration even
last twenty eight years this great Pope has
been necessarily occupied with the spirit
ual welfare of the vast fold of Christ, en-
couraging every form of piety and of good
work. Every year he has condemned
pestiferous errors, the offspring of indiffer-
planned and defined Catholic doctrine, and
crowned all his other great deeds by as
sembling the Vatican Council. But in the
discharge of his arduous duties, and in his
solicitude for all the Churches, he has
been principally called on to grapple with
two leading evils Of the day, which, though
opposed to each other. unite ID assailing
the foundations Of our holy religion, and
In t!neir deeds OF darkness harmoniously
act together. In the first place, his Holt
ness has had continually to contend
against a wild revolutionary spirit that
tends to do away with subjection to every
law, and to undermine the foundations of
religion and society. Had he not, by his
repeated exhortations and admonitions,
bad thn of 10 bow
of bloodshed, anarchy, and irreligion, such
as were lately enacted by the Communists
in Paris, would, perhaps, have disgraced
many other cities and countries.
Whilst resisting this revolutionary tor
rent he has also been obliged to oppose
encroachments of despotism and the many
attempts daily made to establish Pagan
Cesarism, under which temporal and
spiritual things, and all the concerns of
our immortal souls, would be subjected to
the State, and the things belonging to God
given over to Cesar-setting aside the
power of that Church, which has been in
vested by God Himself with His own auth
ority, to guide us in spiritual matters in
| our pilgrimage through this valley of tears.
Within the last few weeks his Holiness has
addressed to all the bishops of the world
an Encyclical Letter, in which, in the
against the two prevailing anti-religieus
scourges which have mentioned-thst 10,
the revolutionary and destructive spirit
| of the age, and that tendency to despotism
which would destroy all liberty of aoul and
| body, and bring Europe back to paganism
and slavery. This document is of so much
| Importance at the present time, that send
copies of a translation of it to each parish,
begging of you to read it from the pulpit
for the people on Sunday, or in parts up
on two successive Sundays. In this way
your pious hocks will receive much in
struction and edication from the words
ed in the faith once delivered to the Saints;
and, at the same time, they will obtain an
accurate knowledge of the wicked persecu-
tions and dreadful sufferings to which our
| Catholic brethren are exposed in SwitZer-
land, Germany, Italy, and other countries.
To know the truth is difficult at present,
| as it appears that the authorities of the
German Empire have adopted the system
of bribing the Press, in order to circulate
news favorable to their prosecuting mea-
sures, and to prevent the world from learn
ing the terrible grievances to which the
Catholic Church has been lately subjected.
| Some of the public papers 60 30 far indeed
as to state that Prussia has established a
special department for the bribery of the
| Press, and that in the late war with Den
mark 5000 kreuzers had boon expended
in subsidies to the journals that wrote in
favor of Prussian views. One of the de-
puties in the Parliament in Berlin, Herr
Windhorst, in a recent speech given by
the Daily Ne,cs, states that preliminary
steps to establish Press lottery fund at
the Prussian Embassy in London had been
taken, and that when that project failed q
special corruption office for England,
France, and Italy, had been opened at
Berlin. This statement will serve to ex-
plain why so many lying kilograms and
correspondences hostile to the Pope and to
the Catholics of Switzerland, Germany,
and Italy, appear almost every day in
some organs of the public Press. This
way of encouraging persecution and op-
preston was severely censured by French
Protestant (Pressense) in these words
"The religious policy of the German EN-
pire receives in England Fluctuations which
| we take leave to regard as scandaIous."
"Whilst such efforts are made to circulate
fslsehood, and to render it popular, it is
fortunate that we can learn the full and
simple truth from the lips of the Pope
himself. In his EncyclicaI he gives an
| account of the sacrileDaa committed in