The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-27


mad two children-a girl and boy. Afte
having been some time in India, DR.. Cullina,
returned on leave to Ireland. While at hou,,
ne made will directing his children to be
brought up Catholics, and appointing as thei
guardians his mother and his brother H.
went back to India, and there he died. Mrs
Crlllnan came home in receipt of a pension
and instead of giving up the children to their
testamentary guardians bringing them up
as Catholics, she kept them and manifested
her intention to bring them up as Protestants
The girl had been with DR.. Cullnap's mother
and she was taken away rather surreptitiously
Inc testamentary guardians then applied for
aud got conditional order from the Court of
Queens Bench on Mrs. Cullinan to give then,
the children, and last Friday Mrs. Callipan
attended personally and by counsel to show
cause for not making that order absolute. She
alleged that her husband had been drinking
hard when he made the will and that it had
been wrung out of him. Mr.. Justice Fitz.
gerald, however, held that the will was all
right, and, according to the law which says
that the husbands wishes (whatever they
may beg, shall-be respected, he at once
issued writ of ha5eas corpus orderin O
Mrs. Cullinan to bring in the girl, who is seven
years OF age, on the following Monday at II
o'clock. He agreed that as the boy was only
i've years old, he should stay with his
mother for some time longer, but he
bound the mother in an undertaking not
to remove him out of the jurisdiction of the
court. Oneyesterday accordingly, he attended
in court to hear the answer to the writ 1t an
peared that Mrs. Cullinan had vanished and
could not be served with the order of the court.
After some discussion-in the course of which
the Judge expressed his sympathy with Mrs
Cullinan, but said he could not allow the order
OF the court to be evaded or disobeyed-he is
sued another writ to be returned the following
day at o'clock. At this hour to-day, he sat
again, but there Was still appearance on the
part of Mrs. Cnllinan, and no compliance with
the order OF the court. He thereupon issued |
- an attachment against her " for contempt"
and If she is arrested and does not give up the |
children she Will certainly be imprisoned and |
lined. Indeed, believe, she can and will be
kept imprisoned till the children are delivered
1p Now this, it must be confessed, is a pain
ful case. 1t is hard TO tear away her children
rom Mrs. Cullnan, and suppose she feels a
etigious obligation to keep them and train
hem Professionals. But the husbands wishes
hould be as much respected hers, and the
guardians, as Catholics, also feel
10 doubt religious obligation to try by every
legitimate means to give effect to those wishes
nd bring the children up Catholics And the
Judge obviously is only fulfilling his bounden
uty in assisting the guardian, as the law is
laiu. The only conclusion to be drawn is, that
Marriages between Catholics and Professionals
hon IN ha avoided md hot |
such marriages is showing su- g,
RENE wisdom. Ia this diocese, may mention, -,
lat all Catholics who marry non Catholics or :
'sst at mixed marriages are ipso facto excon-
unicated.
His Eminence, Cardinal Cullen, has this week :,
ade public reference to the recent preaching
Atheism at Belfast. First, he has issued
Istoral letter in which he recommends next 7
lnday and Monday, aud Sunday the 20th, to
set apart for public prayer for the Pope, for .
o faithful in general, and especially for -
g preservation of Ireland from that infidelity +"
tn which philosophy of false name, under
e mask of science, is trying to poison her
tholic people," The precious relic of the
lie cross" says his EmineDce, given by his *
illness Plus TX. to the Cardinal Archbishop o.
lioh is to be preserved in the new church of III
) Holy Cross at Clonliffe. will be exposed to CT
bic worship ach of these three days in the CD
'-cathedral. Thus, to those who cannot u
Ike pilgrimsges to distant sanctuaries, an a.
will be afforded ofzshowing their 'n
yotion to our -crucifed Lord by generating
wood which he died, and rendering We
mage to the cross, the symbol of redemption, ~
the sure foundation of our hopes of eternal re
'piness." And on Sunday last, when laying .n
foundation-stone of a new church that is to no
cted in Berkeley street, in this city, in honor Gil
IT. Joseph, his Eminencey in n brief address, TIC
K occasion TO distinctly alIude to and
demn With tle utmost enphasIs thsl Ad