The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-20
EngHsh Catholic Eaueatlon.
ARCHBISHOP MANNING AND THE rwrrx
BISHOPS PASTORAL LET rER on THE rr,,-
CATHOLIC coLLEGE--rHE PoPE's oPINros
OF MATERIALIsM.
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Correspondence New York world
/ LONDON, August 27.-Next SUNDAY !.
30th, a joint pastoral letter from the Arc sIe
bishop of Westminster and the twelve sns
fragan bishops of England CONCERNING ~.
new Catholic University, of which Mons;soe
nor Capel is the rector, will be read in ever
Catholic church throughout the kin pdons
The text of this important and interest;n...
document has been placed in my bands anS
its substance will be found below. Tha
first buildings for the new university aro
nearly completed, and will be opened at tho
beginning of Michaelmas term. The
and in the course of hundred years or NJ
the university will perhaps begin to ha
worthy of its high purposes. "
On dit that the Prince of the Astur;a.
who is now in England, will enter himself
as student in this university, and will
education or is called to the throne of Snain
The prelates, after saying in their mas.
| toral that, at the command of the Pope tha,
have undertaken the institution of th;s
university, go on to say:
| When the Catholic Church in England had
der, it had still to complete its internal oroan
izatlon. The Wears apostolic and the faitRfnI
| with them had labored in poverty, and nnds.
penal laws, and despite of every kind of Oh
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youth. The ancient universities, the COLLEGES
| and grammar schools founded before Henri,
VIII were lost to the Church. The impover
lshment OF the Catholics of England was in
privation of the means of culture. During the
last hundred years, by self-deniaI, heroic CON
s sta OF PufPSsss and unyielding courage in
country succeeded in laying the foundation of
five colleges, which at this day are our clisf
and noblest monuments of those times. The
NN1In Of
back for hundred years. st. Cuthbert's At
Ushaw disputes priority with st. Edmunds.
Both have passed their century. st. Mary's,
G Us wa, was founded az about eight years ago.
The College of st. Peter and st. Paul at Prior
Park was founded about the gear 1929. These
four colleges were the work of the Wears amos
tolic, and perhaps no nobler evidence IS to bs
found in England of their wisdom, foresight,
and faith 1t was, indeed, an act of confidence
worthy to be not only admired but initiated
when bishop Of literal poverty laid the first
overlooking the towers of Durham It arose
even then a work of small proportions. II il
now a magnificent pile of many quadran giles
cient colleges. The fifth great college existing
amongst us is the work of the Society of Jesus
In magnitude and appointments the cellepe at
Stonyhurst would worthily rank with the
foundations of our Catholic ancestors, Such
is at this time our provision for the higher ed
ncation of Catholic youth. Tie ca
thelie Church as the muter uftFirqae scientiayum
efficiency of its students, and in promoting the
habits of conscientious and Industrious inteI-
lectual cultivation. What it has done IL can
stu do; what it did once in England it can
do again. 1t has no need to go out of its own
field to seek for an impulse or a stimnIus To
higher aims. Moreover, it retaius-and NE
sorrow for England when we say tit alone
retains the method of study which has crsateS
the Christian civilization of the world. It
retains, as first axiom of truth; that all
sciences, sacred and secular, Aow from one
source, and, as first principle of the higher
education of man, that these sciences can never
be- put asunder. The Christian philosophy,
which made the ancient universities in yigor
and solidity what they were, has given place to
aphilosophy which claims as its perfection that
it begins by destroying all belief. From this
sceptical development of the national intelIect
penal laws, social exile. exclusion from public
and national schools of lea rning have we'd MS
What the Supreme Pontif laid down as to the
true basis of scientific education we still DOS
sess as an heirloom from our forefathers -
We turn, therefore, to you to aid us in this
vital, necessary, and arduous work. 1t is q
work for the whole of England, and we appeal
to you AS the pastors of the whole flock in
England we are responsible for the mainte-
and laity.. We are bound to hand it ON as we
have received it, pure and unchanged, without
contact with modern and dangerous methods,
91tainted with the alterations of science,
falsely so-called, ADD with philosophy at vari.
auce with faith. We remind you once more of
the warnings of the Supreme Pontiff addressed
to parents who expose their sons to the dam
gerons influence of systems contrary to the
faith: Unless our system of education be
as an arch is tied by its keystone,
with SQUAD course of higher studies the Ca.
tholic youth of England, many of them at
least, would not only enter life and its profess
be compelled to seek their last studies from
teachers and systems at least external to the
lnity of truth.
Apropos of this subject, and as comment
also upon the recent materialistic pronun-
'iamento of Professor Tyndall at Belfast,
It may be interesting to read the following
extracts from a recent letter of the Pope to
The Chevalier Travaglini, NJ. D., who has
in Italy school of philosophy
and medicine combined, the members of
which are required to be Catholics. The
Pope says:
We have already on a former occasion felici-
ated you on your having formed the resolu-
ION OF recalling medical science to the salutary
of philosophy, from which it has too
ong gone astray, and on your intention of eff
Getting this by means of physicians themselves,