The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-06-27
e1sruIng Star ano Catholic Messenger.
NEW oRLEANs SUNDAY, JUsE 81 's7s.
LETTER FROM ROME.
Correspondence London Tablet

80 many others, was altogether iase ana
and without foundation. The Pope 10 in
excellent health. and received an I'M immense nn,S
he gave audience in the Throne Room to
the Oueen Dowager of Sweden, Josephine
Maximiliapa. born in Milan in 1905. she
married 10 1923 Oscar l., King OF Sweden
and Norway. Hcr father was Eugene beau
harnais, viceroy, of Naples and Duke se.a o.
Leuchtenberg. Her mother was Augusta
Amelia Of Bavaria.
coNsCRIPTIoN OF THE CLERGY.
The law aubiectipg priests and divinity
stndents to the Conecription has passed the
Senate by o large majority. The clause
as proposed and voted by the Chamber of
Deputies was slightly modified in form, bat
not In su6stance, by the Senate, and was
recommended by the Ministers Minghetti
and Ricotti, Minister of War, who spoke
in favor of the clause, and stated that IN
practice it would not press heavily on the
clergy, inasmuch as q Royal Decree might
assign to the priests when summoned TO
military service, special duties connected
with the am bulance, hospitals, and other
Departments not requiring partlcipation 10
actual cor Aicts. The evil remains, how
ever, that the course of clerical studies In
seminaries will be interrupted for year In
the case of each clerical recruit; and OF
course this transfer of a divinity student
from his college and devotional exercises to
the parade and drill-ground will expose the
Young priest to perils which may destroy
his vocation. The manners and customs of
soldiers are not likely to be fitting stimu-
lants to the practice of those virtues In
which the soldier of Christ should be tram
ed. The Senate and the Government have
now rejected the petitions of the Bishops
and the clergy, and it now only remains
for Victor Emmanuel to reject the prayer
of Plus TX and inf1ict a new blow upon
the Catholic Church in Italy. 1t ia difficult
to imagine what more can be done to de-
stroy the Catholic religion in Italy. The
State is now absolute master OF all religious
property. Some of this property it has
confiscated, and what it has not conhscated
it administers. The State in Italy now
pays the clergy out of a moiety of eccles-
iastical property. Not content with being
paymaster in chief, the State claims the
right over the ecclesiastical functions in
or out of churches. The State can inhibit
and forbid any religious function what
ever, be it pilgrimage or procession, OF
the Mass. The priest who celebrates q
Mass or breaches a sermon In defiance OF
the magistrates' prohibitory order is liable
to fine and imprisonment. The State now
interferes with ecclesiastical studies and
can compel the candidate for the priest
hood, nay the priest himself, to serve a
year during peace in the ranks of the sold
iers, and in war time to shoulder musket.
Thus the very existence of priesthood
depends on the will of the civil ruler. No
Christian country has ever before claimed
or exercised this power over Catholic
ministers. The purpose of the preseui
Government is to destroy the teaching
power of the Church. And this purpose
has been skilfully maintained by a series
of skilful but unprincipled measure. The
temporal power was the only thing first
attacked, but now the spiritual power o.
the Pope is openly and effectively assaied
SATAN WORSHIP.
A Venetian journal entitled the Baochig
ii0ns in q recent number contained an ar
ticle in praise of Satan. One passage iron
it runs thus :-"Rejoice, o Satan, the da.
is near at hand when grateful humanity will
erect to thee trophy and inscribe beneath
it: To Satan. God Of the oppressed, hedH
and gIory." This blasphemous newspape
was not suppressed, although seditlous a
we'll as blas phemous. "Satan the triumphe
raises the poor against the rich by promis
ing them wealth and empire, and excite
the week against the powerful by encou
aging them in revolt against the Churc
and against the Kings. Satan masters u
ia order to impel us along the path of pN1
gress. Satan the triumpher is the sclenc
which tramples on the revealed religions.
And, again Satan the triumpher,
iri0nJdt0rc, Is the serpent who shakes o
his back the foot of Il Virgin" When lar
guage like this is allowed to be printed an
clICulateu WIN lupunIlS, IL 10 eNiutuS Ih'
the Italian Government interprets yer
loosely the Statute which makes the Catht
lie religion the religion of the State. An
when such blasphemy is printed by tn
Freethinkers and Freemasons in Italy it
evident that much which is worse remair
imprinted. Mr.. Gladstone complains thu
Plus TX. will not place himself in harmon
with modern thought and modern civilizi
tion. But there is q comm munism, that of Il
open followers of Satan, which the Pope ca
hardly be expected to sanction. Woul
Mr.. Gladstone bimself harmonize with Il
progress advocated by the Venetian jou
nalistf Will he embrace the science whiC
tramples upon the Revelation The Hol
Father denouHced in strong language IL
attempts of the wicked men who strove
poison the minds of the young by teachir
infdelity and license under the mack
liberty and science. The Liberals in Enl
land do not, perhaps, know the extent
the evil done in Italy by the Liberals in tt
Peninsula. If they did they would prol
ably repudiate all connection with the Vel
etiah Liberals who read the Bacchiglione.
Moat nf tho aenaible mon in town deal vii