The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-04-18
ALLEGATION Of the Pope to tho Cardinals.

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From the London Tablet
The following is the text of the Allocu-
ton addressed by the Pope to the Cardinals
| on Monday, the 18th of March:
Venerable Brethren-Recognizip that it
| was one of the duties of our mission, es-
| pecially in these unhappy times, to add to
your Order, 60 illustrious in able men who
aid Us in the government of the Universal
Church, We have thought that We ought to
| fulfil this duty. In truth We should wish
| to do 80 with that ancient dignity of the
Church, but the severity of the times does
| not allow Us. This is now 30 great that it
| would even rob Us of the liberty of deplor-
ing the calamities of the Church. We are
| not astonished that those whom error and
old hatreds separate from the Church
that in this unhappy Italy, where by a Di-
| vine Providence the supreme seat of the
| truth has been established, those who were
| the sons of the Church should have become
its enemies, impel!ed either by their own
will or by foreign instigation to plot and
| contrive the ruin OF the Church itself, nee
essarily involving the ruin even of human
| society; this is what We deplore with
sorrow from the bottom of our heart. 1t is
| from these vaccinations that have sprung
80 many unhappy undertakings which have
unjustiy injured the rights, tue liberty, the
u.
We have long been the spectators of it,
and We see Ourselves powerless to repei
| this violence. Thence is daily poured
| forth and extended that evil, unqnestion-
ably the most serious and assuredly the
most fatal, to 80 large a number of souls
and to human society-namely, the corrup-
ton Of youth, whereby it is sought to pro-
pagate the existing evils even among future
| generation. All institutions, in fact, serving
for the education of youth in this centre of
| the Catholic world, have been withdrawn
| from the vigilance of the Church. The young
are strictly forced from the early age when
| the seeds of virtue OF vice strike such
deep root to attend schools submitted to
| the civil authority, where their minds and
hearts, without any regard for faith and
| religion, are instructed according TO 1.-The
precepts and wisdom of this age,
the bitter fruits of which the whole
world is now reapiDg. The education even
of those who have been called into the
Lords army is also obstructed by 81 many
arbitrarily imposed rules to studies that
it becomes every day more difficult for them
to pursue that career, aud this is why there
are so few, especially since the fatal law on
military service, who can join the ranks of
the clergy. But what shows still more
plainly the design of our enemies are GER
tain documents recently published in which
encouragement is given to the priests and
inferior clergy who resist and rebel against
is held out to them of assistance and sup
port against the sentence and DEGREES which
the Episcopal authority may issue against
them. What shall We say more Even the
preaching of the word of God and the pub
LEGATION of Our utterances meet with the
hostile acts of the public authority. Hence,
penal laws are announced against those
who shall give publicity by the press or
otherwise to the words We pronounce and
the acts of this Apostolic See whenever
those who indulge in such threats think
they find in them anythiDg contrary to the
civil: Institutions and laws. Such threats
certainly show but too plainly the spirit |
and force Of certain laws which, affecting a |
kind of respect in order to delude the faith |
fui, appeared to protect Oar liberty and
dignity, and 1t proves, more and more, how |
necessary to Us is that supreme and full
power, independent of the authority and
good pleasure of anybody, which Divine
Providence has conferred on the Roman
Pontiffs in order that they might exercise
their spiritual liberty in the entire world.
Meanwhile that threat tends to stife the
very voice of the Supreme Master of truth
and prevent it from extending itself afar off
that voice which by Divine right makes
itself heard for the common good of society
in the whole world, and cannot be circum-
scribed or impeded without the rights of
all the faithful being also violated. Let
those who su bmit the Church to Sc great a
slavery remember that they provoke
against themselves the severity of the
judgment of God, and will have, in their
turn, to submit to masters as much harsher
and Jokes of tyranny as much more
weighty as the authority of their Mother,
which they have rejected, loading it with
chains, was the mider. Even this cruel
state of things which We have described ,
does not suffice for the enemies of the
Church. They have also directed their ;
efforts to preparing new causes of division !
aud trouble in the condolences even of the 9
faithful. Recently, in fact, in a foreign =
country certain writings were published in =
which the DEGREES of the Vatican Council
we're distorted and turned into q contrary j
sense, and in which means were contem- +
plated of violating in the election of our n
If attributing to the Civil power a large . =
hare in an affair which is entirely of the q
ecclesiastical order. But the merciful God {
Who directs and inepires His Church wisely
ordered that the very courageous and dis
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