The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-02
A Wolf i'm the Fold.


Worldlinees in the Church" which appear
ed in the IrtsA World of April 18th ult. That I
paper takes an unmistakable stand against
what 1t chooses to term the pomp and
worldliness of the Church. Lie especially
scandalized at the recent creation of Car
dinal In the person of>Archbishop McClos-
key. Before coming to that point, however,
it gives Ms o historical review. During the
three first centuries, persecution kept the
Church pretty straight. Then men had no
,titles they were James, John and Peter.
After that the kings took to protecting
them and made Princes Of some of them.
Here our confrere becomes excited with
kind of sacred rage. He says the clerical
Princes rode in carriages and enjoyed great
state. Let us ventilate his eloquence
These prince bishops lived in palaces, around
which were magnificent parks and gardens.
They drove in splendid carriages drawn by the
finest horses. Their tables were loaded with
the choicest. All that the taste could approve
or the belly craved, was furnished. a guard
of honor presented arms as they passed, and q
train of servants waited on their every wish
in their palaces. But the people what OF themI
They went down. Man as the image Of God
deprecated, but as q chattel he rose in value.
All Europe " as crusted over with tyrannoos
arl8tOCFaCy
wives and children, were bought and sold
with the lands they inhabited, were reduced
to condition of servitude as degrading
| almost as that which disgraced the pagan
ages. s.
This is fine frenzy, but miserably poor
history. The "crust of tyrannous afistoc-
racy" was getting thinner all the time.
| The Church under Constantine found the
populations enslaved when Professionalism
broke out, slavery nowhere existed within
the boundaries of~ Catholic Europe. A
little more TRUTH would be better, friend
World, even at the sacrifice of rounded
period now and then.
Then our humble Catholic friend goes on
from the Cardinals to the Popes:
A king would thrust creature of his own
into the Papal chair, and maintain him by
force of arms. Sometimes Christendom would
be scandalized at the spectacle of three anti
popes Spain would recognize one, France an
other, and Germany q third. Al these anti
popes would be Illuminating bulls and excom-
munications against one another. The minor
priests, too, did as they liked.
Let us meekly enquire if all these were
anti Popes9 Was not one of them the real
Popef Yet this is a faithful son of the
Church who spesks thus respectfully,-a
Catholic editor, in fact.
, Our learned confrere continues:
What was the result of all this What does
8 Church history tell Greece fell
away from the Church. With Greece may b.
counted that immense country, Russia, which
now numbers sixty millions of people,.
g Fearfully bad history again. The Greel
: Church, and consequently the Russian, wa
3 separated long before the scandals of thu
n anti Popes. Again:
Such was the result of worldliness in tn
o Church! Were 1t not for the great saints tina
II God raised mp, from time to time, and the or
=, | ders of poverty-vowed priests established b.
those saints, the Church-looking at thing
with human eyes-would long since have per
ished. Those saints passed to their reward
Q The orders fou nded by them, which were he sal
IN of the earth in their freshness, in course 6
time lost their SAVIOR, grew rich and fat, an
p became worthless. But God raised up othe
y saints; other poverty-vowed orders wou
10 come into existence; and thus the work G
- purihoaton-in spite of prince-bishops AM
~ kingly defenders of the faith-went on.
Il So, in spite of Popes and Bishops, 18th
>, work of publication went on" Here is
Catholic for you-one of the old fashione
ir sort, vowed to poverty. So powerful
10 this good man for poverty that he burst
,e up the religious Orders as soon as he think
% they have grown fat and saucy. They 81
Id gone, he sage; "they grew worthless
n WORTHLESS, mind. Does this Catk0l
IN editor mean the Augustiniaus, or the Frar
m ciscans, or the Dominicans, or all of them
30 But We will not question the good ma
~ too closely. Good works prevail ov,
rhetorical nonsense, and We are satisfe
that the blessed spirit of poverty so er
y, Enthusiastically proclaimed by our brother
n the Irish World will prevent him fro
'e' pocketing that @2o, 600 per annum, While
}" one of our contemporaries says he is clea
81 ing. This apostle of poverty is not goir
Va to join the " bloated aristOcrats." 1t won
of give people an excuse for saying that
n made his paper the gross, sensational, bla
phemous sheet that it is for mere pelf al
We was sailing under false colors all the tim
We Let us see if our contemporary is bett
We posted on the present situation of affai
We than in the history of the past. He cay
Everywhere now there seems to be an AMI