The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-09-05
J. P1etanded P.ieata.
DUTY OF CATHOLICS no THE CHURCH AM 7,,.,.
SELVES.


The following Communication has bs.,
ceived from one of the anost distipeuisbed ~
tributors to the MoRNNa srAR:
Editor Morning Stars
Please advise Catholics to nae l;ttle y, -.
vigilance against such blaspheuoas soouu ssra,
as that pretended Father Lee,s Who Tyieil.s
Brookhaven, Miss, on the 18TH inss f
In that case it seems to me the people ca,,.
to have asked the man for his, papers, and M.
made some excuse for mot having them. n :.
Even il he had shown papers, yet when tb.v
saw his strang EBAY of proceedings md hsara
such an Incredible explanatioA %, that Ia ~
more powers than spriests and Bishops, a,
not then at least have autographed voga /.
tho authorities Of the Dioceses II shsv h.a
only done 30, and learned at once thai q.
wretch was an imposteEs then they should havs
quietly consulted gdod lswysf p ttS Hheth.r
they could legally arrest him. ,,3his had
been done, in ali probability he WoSi6r be nov
safe in Jail ont of the way Of temptation, ana
with Q prospect of doing penance in She Stat,
Prison. Thus they would have done chaRibl
| to his own soul. And If it involved some a.
| pense, it would save moro to themselves aud
their neighbors by making an example fa
swindlers. II
CARD FROM THE VICAR GENERAL OF ,Gosrp
The Mobile Register, of last Tuesday, hasss
following card from the Very Rev. W.
McDonough, Vicar-G General Of the Diocese
Mobile:
ANIMposToR.-An good men, moro eepeciaIy
all Catholics, are hereby warned against ca
tain individual, assuming the gsrb and chss
ecter Of q priest, and who is an imposter anda
, swindler. He has already been denounced d
Communications from Memphis, sBrookhaSes
and Texarkana, and went, Sunday eveninl
last, 29th inst, to the house of Catholic ges
tleman ct Grand Bay Station, New Orleans an
Mobile Railroad, where. upon being questionsa
accounts of himself, pretending to be o Jssal
Missionary, but he has no papers from eitha
!. Diocesan or other Ecclesiastical euthoritiss
;. He is no doubt an "Alsatian by birth, spsall
broken English and very poor French, ID ut
Q terly ignorant of Latin, and does not evel
= know the Ritual of the Church. On his las
attempt at imposition, he first gave his nam.
as Father Cheveret IA French name-bui
q upon being asked for his ordination papsrs
and after stating that they eman ated from thl
University of Louvain (Belgium), he producad
d papers-no doubt genline-in Latin, issued BY
the Grand Vicar Of the Archbishop of Mechlin
lMalines in French), another and different city
= of Belgium, granting the snb-diaeonate anl
/, diaconate to Johannes Augustus Stacke; and
upon being asked why this discrepancy be
tween places and names. attempted Q mos
Of miserable explanation. He, nevertheless, pre-
If tends to say Mass, hear confessions and Cd
- minister the rights of the Church. He hs
ts been described accurately in letter froE
Is Texas, pablished in the MoRNTNG Star, o
New Orleans, nearly q follows: Dressed in
70 light alpaca coat, very seedy, no vest, httl
"a below medium size, very dark complexion
brownish eyes, dark hair, sprinkled with graz
and, as made ont by his German papers, aga
About 9
ls hesitation ct committing saorilege, and the o.
in of all good men lie invoked TO bring him to ju
No tice. w. r. MCDoNoUGH,
At Y. G. Diocese Of Mobile.