The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-07-14
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Germany.

eaos Of Berlin says that the revolutionary
insolence Of the Papal Manifesto viii force
the Government to prove beyond doubt
who is Sovereign in his Countrywide
Pope or the Emperor, at is" the paper
adds, "more necessary than ever after this,
that the various Governments should ask
themselves upon the election Of a new
Pope, whether the successor of Pho Mono
is fit to exercise Papal preogatives in their
respective countries
In consequence of the PaPal Encyclical
to the Prussian Bishops, the official inter
course between the Bishops and the Nati-
can viii be subjected to the supervision Of
the Government. DR.. Falk, the Minister,
has taken measures to ascertain whether
any of the Catholic members Of his de
partment recognize the reasoning of the
Papal Encyclical in declaring the Prussian
Church Laws invalid
In the Prussian parliament on March 4
the Minister of Public Instruction intro
duced q bill withdrawing the endowments
paid by the State to the Catholic bishops
and clergy. The endowments are TO cease
directly the measure becomes law. BY
clause , it is, however, provided that these
grants shall be restored as soon as a Bishop
binds himself, in writing, to the Govern
ment TO obey the law. Should he violate
this obligation he viii be tried before the
Courts, and removed from office. The
disposal Of the confscated endowments is
reserved for future legislation. Our Ber-
In correspondent says, in a special tele-
gram, that the bill was quite unexpected,
and produced a profound sensation in the
House. Much curiosity is felt as to the
course the Bishops viii now adopt.
The bill which has been introduced into
the German Senate for Withdrawing the
State subsidies from Roman Catholic do
ceses" consists of fifteen paragraphs, as
follows 81 From the date of the pub
LEGATION of this law, all State grants to
Bishops, clergy, and diocesan institutions
shall cease, in the Roman Catholic dio.
ceses of Prussia, and in those portions OF
the dioceses of Prague, Olmutz, Freiburg,
and Moinz, which are under Prussian rule.
The clergy belonging to public State insti-
tutious are alone exempted from this law.
2. The subsidies thus withdrawn shall be
again paid, so soon as the Bishop of any
diocese, or the administrator of the same,
shall declare in writing to the Govern
ment his acknowledgment of the laws of
the State. 3 and 4appoint the same reg
ulations to apply to the vacated dioceses
of Posen and Paderborn, and to any that
may be vacated in similar way 6. In
the cases Of separate clergymen, who shall
declare in writing that they viii obey the
laws, the State pay may be continued.
Z to 10 determine the manner in which
the coniscated supply shall be used, and
authorizes the necessary expenditure for
administering the secular affairs of the do
ceses. IL. If any cleric shall withdraw
at any subsequent time his written en-
gagement to obey the law, or shall tacitly
disobey the law, he shall be deposed from
his office. u and 10 settle the manner of
carrying out the deposition, and authorize
the Supreme Church Court to give SEN
tenee in the case. H. Any cleric who
shall perform any official act after his de-
position shall be fined for the first offence
up to SIS, and for a repetition of the act,
upto ESQ.
This is Prussia's answer to the Papal
Encyclioal, and is, in fact, the rupture of
negotiations with Rome, and the abolition
of the hitherto existing Coneordat.
The Lower House of the Prussian Diet,
on March I6, was occupied with the de-
bate upon the first reading of the Govern
ment bill for the withdrawal of State
grants from Roman Catholic Bishops.
The Minister of Public Works, DR..
Falk, justified the measure by calling at
tention to the disobedienee of the clergy
to the State Laws. He stigmatized all
the reproaches that the Government
wished to destroy the Church, as untrue.
The Minister dwelt specially upon the cir
oumstances that enactments similar to the
May laws have been introduced in Aus
tria without the consent of the Church,
and that Bishop Ruediger of Linz had
been authorized to submit to them. He
next mentioned that the Prince-Bishop of
Breslau had submitted to laws in the Aus
TRAN districts of his diocese which he op-
posed upon Prussian territory. The State
did not fear the Encyclieal Letter but held
it to be a serious matter, and would not
allow itself to be treated with scorn by the
Church. That was the meaning of the
present bill, measure introduced to put
a stop to a pernicious state of things. DR..
Falk added that, undeterred by threats
and insults, he would continue to do his
duty.
DIR. sybel followed, and delivered an
exhaustive speech in support of the bill.
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