The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-07-26
Louis veulllot on the Papacy.


| From the London Register.
Among the noble tributes offered to His
| Holiness upon the twenty eighth apniver-
sary of his accession to the POptficate
there was one incidentally proffered by an
| illnstrious layman which ought rtainly not
to be allowed to pass nnnoticed. No more
devoted son OF the Church outside the sane
tuary can anywhere be found, as we be-
leve, in the length and breadth of Chris
| tendon. When the Henty ninth year of
the reign of Plus the Ninth commenced no
wonder the heart OF Louis Veuillot glowed
within him, or that his earnest thou shts
upon the instant found burning utterance
The coming round of this grand anniver-
sary-an anniversary absolutely unparai-
led during all these nineteen centuries in
the annals of Christendom-as a matter
of course fired tue imagination of the vet
Gran champion of Catholicism. For wears
he wrotoOn the eve of the great celebra-
tlon-for years together the Papacy has
seemed like an immense and magnificent
cOlumn-the last remnant of an ediiice
otherwise utterly destroyed. Passers by
remarked in it's regard-This column, IN
appearance iDdestructible, will neverthe.
less, itself fall, as all around it have already
fallen. If it's head is far above the reach
its antagonist, its pedestal, at least, is
fragil. Science-modern Science that is
will pnlverise it This granite, these pe"-
pie, she will reduce to dust, which brute
force will then sweep away with the bosom
of destruction. and all will be finished
Well, argues Neuillot with his bold mascu-
line scorn, Science has done what she an
nounced, and Force also. They have be-
lieved it. at least aud, what is more, they
still believe it. The base is decomposed.
displaced, carried away, perhaps. Nothing
any longer is seen beneath the column
But yet the column is there still, never
theless 1t is i':ere, calmly and peren-
nia!ly, in the same place, only loftier and
more luminous Remarking this, Louis
Veuilot exclaims in exultation-It is evil
dent this column is sustained on high from
above! 1t is evident, even, that it recon-
structs its own pedestal, and that it is
Force and Science themselves, on the con-
trary, that decompose and pass away.
But even if it be 80, they say-If the
column remains, if the Papacy survives, it
80 happens by mere chance, by sheer ao-
cident. What says Veuillot thereupon g
Well, yes, it so falls out by pure baphazard
of course, that this Pope ia of particular
temperament, and lasts SO much longer than
any other Pope who ever appeared before
him. In the midst of wholly unexampled
situation he has encountered fortune still
more extraordinary. He appears to sue
under the fangs of grief. He is Of metal
that rust can never tarnish. Yes, and
Science is disconnected, by this-accide nt
And Science of all kinds-Political Science,
among others-is not infrequently thus
disconcerted.- Science expla;ns every thing,
predicts erything, but again and again
hazard, chance, accident, comes to give it
distinct contradiction. And
so by this anti scientific mystery the work
of Jesus Christ exists during these nineteen
-
And so-this time, too, things fall out
ly by accident, the Pope, passing far
beyond the limits of the longest reigns of
any of his predecessors, by this unlocked
for manGuvre entirely puts out and over
throws all sorts of sagacious and quite GER
tain calculations. Besides which, as Veuil-,
lot pitilessly remarks-This doomed one
this dead one, has contrived somehow, in
the most disc"ncerting way possible, to
inter considerable number of living and,
as it was thought, dominant and hides
pcrsonages. Besides which he
has contrived also to wear out o consider
able number of those who still survive.
Listen to VeuilIot as he calls over the
Muster Roll !-Cavour and Napo!ean are
dead. Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel are
both PROSTATE with WEAKNESS. Profound
lassltude and ravaging decomposition are
apparent in Italy, in France, even in Ger
many. Many other living, and many con-
querors of yesterday and To day, are dying
around us. Many of the vanquished ana
of the dying of the day before yesterday
live on, are rev;vified, re-
solutely refuse to die. Those whom Mi
chelet land he, too, is dead, exclains
Feuillot, in parenthesis) called, with others
who are no longer living, the funereal men,
lies hommes noirs," We behold, sheltered |
in the panoply of an armour, forged by the |
very hands that would fain have doomed |
them to destruction. Aud then, quoting |
the sinister verse of Beranger-
R!aok men. where do you come from
Louis Veuillot remarks on this point cx-
altantly, in ENTHUSIASTICALLY the same
dialogue that was exchanged between them |
was exchanged sixteen hundred years ago |
between the great and wise people of Cesar |
and the little and ignorant people of Christ |
emerging from the Catacombs ! o persis
!
We also, yes We, says Veuillot, have our
of this chance, this haphazard,
his accident. We call it God-that God
Who is the Way, the Life, the Resorrec
ion. And we i've possess the future.
because we live in the Church. Farther
han this he addE-God has SO constituted
lis Church that, in the midst of the alb
limitations and follies OF the world, one
nan retains always n clear view of what