The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-04-18

calling to itself ii multitude of honest Cnr's-
tians who. however, feeble in faith, were
sednoed by the mask Of philanthropy, OF oene-
violence and of progress with which it present.
ed itself to them, or who were attracted by the
desire of preferment or the hope OF gam.
Ten years ago, before the great events when
have once again changed the map OF Europe
it was no longer by tens Of thousands put oS
millions that it numbered it's adopts And'
although of this imposing Ruitltuoe' sn'''i
and very limited has always been and 10 no"
| the number of chiefs who alone possess the
secrets of the ultimate object OF the WORK. th's
MAS of servile men, bound together by osths
the reach of which they ignore, is in the hands
of its chiefs a formidable power, rendered Still
| more formidable by the accession OF the He
brew element, since that unfortunate people
has descended into the fathomless abyss OF
| rationalism.
After having overthrow the throne OF Ma
pies and blotted out the principalitieso of Parma
and Florence, as being too devoted to the head
of the Church; after having, for the same rea-
sou, erected a republic after its own likeness
upon the ruins of the Catholic throne of Spain,
and despoiled the Holy Father of the greater
portions of his domains to glut the cupidity OF
the sub-Alpine King, one of its crowned slaves;
after having taken into it's own hand the rens
of every government, including those of the
two Americas, the Sect reached the apogee OF
it's power. There remained only that it should
define its position and assert itself with haSdl-
hood in the face of tie world, before publicly
and seriously undertaking against Christ and
His Church that gigantic war OF which we
now witness the first acts, and of which the
last belongs to God. This was done, five years
ago and more, by proceeding the grave im-
port Of which, save in the instances of few
serious thinkers, passed uuobserved in that
! levity of spirit which characterizes our age
i its very memory being already effaced from
It the minds of most Catholics themselves.
7, When, on the 9Th of December, 1862 under
v the presidency of Plus TX, the Church, repre-
o sented by the Bishops of the whole world, call
B. ed together by the voice of the prince of pas
If tors, opened those grand assizes, the greatest
q ever since the painful birth of Christiani-
ty on Calvary, to sit in Judgment upon the
30 monstrous errors of modern times, and, as un
N shaken as in those first days when the hand Of
IL Christ established her. aud more than ever
'e elevated above the shifting waves of human
Ut opinion, to point out to feeble or misguided
r. souls. that Rock on which repose at once the
r. integrity of evangelical morals; at that SAM
IL hour at Naples, under the name vi anti Council
rs the Sect also solemnly opened its first CRANE
Ut sittings under the presidency of Ricciardi, L
II, renew, after more than eighteen centuries, til
'h condemnation by the High Priest and tn
CT sanhcdrn of the Son of God, to spit upon Hin
vi strike Him in the face. crown Him with thorn.
'c- expose Him covered with derision to the bias
fi,a, ,st !,
an deicidal Jews: Eve will not have HIM I
u reign over u.s.! To these truly diabolica
$50 orgies had been summoned, and took par
gu therein, seven hundred delegates from tn
LOT grand lodges of the United States, Mexic,
o' Braz l, Asia, Africa, aud of all the kingdom
'es and principalities of Europe. An iuciden
'N brought about by the imprudence of one
en the delegates, obliged the police to dssol Y
~ the assembly after some day of session, and
'es popular outbreak, provoked by the hoiribl
"o basphemes of these impious men again.
sou Jesus Christ and His immaculate Mother, col
MI strained the members to dispense. Howeve
- the plans of action having been decided Oh b
ON forehand, the president had had time to cor
On municate them to the delegates, such as
see them daily developing themselves befo
mt eyes, and to effect the proclams Jpn of Il
by d. claratlon of principles adopted by the AM
sn. Council
and x
80 Having. during our stay in Rome, copi
49,, literally the declarations published by IL
Masonic organ of Florence, We have thong
that it would be useful to the faithful to pla
49, before their eyes at least the principal d.
trines thereof, that they may realize the int
w sity of hatred on the part of the Sect agar
;. the Church and Jesus Christ, T q inferr
object which it contemplates, and the just
l.. of the anatheDas pronounced against it
- the Sovereign Pontiffs who have rel , ned d
,,, ing it's existence The first dec!aratian of
,dar sonic principles, signed by all the delegates
,,,d the anti-Council, is as follows:
r.. "The undersigned delegat of the differt
PIE" nations of the civilized world, assembled
lniz- Naples to take part in the anti Council affi
cred the following principles: They proclaim
,h liberty of reason ~ against religious
'"0 thority, the Independence of man AS agai
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