The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-10-17
DUBLIN, Sept. 25tb. ~

J. J. c,
DUBLIN, Sept. 25th, 1875,
THE MAYNooTH NATIONAL sYSon
has closed its sittings, and the DEGREES adontsa
| have been sent on to Rome. No one know,
what those DEGREES are yet nor will any on.
! know till they shall have been returned to Tia
Bishops with the approval of the Holy ses
But it is understood that several mattsrs n
internal ecclesiastical discipline are treated ~
and also the still vexed question of education
The address delivered by his Eminence, Cardi.
nal Cullen, at the last public session, CLEARLY
foreshadows 80 much and the pastoral letter
issued by the Bishops to their flocks the d,v
after their departure from Maynooth contains
most decided expression of opinion on tb,
question of education. The Bishops, in fact
proclaim war anew against the Goddess system
embodied in the Queens colleges, the Upiyer
sity of Dublin. and the Government Model and
Training schools they express determination
to make the still unendowed and unchartered
Catholic University success in spite of all tie
disadvantages with which it has to contend:
they think that, in q short time, that institu.
ton will practically have in its hands, by the
system of afiliating to it schools and colleges,
the control of the whole education of the
country; and to counterfeit the evil iufluences
of the Government Training Schools they
have resolved to establish o Catholic training
school which shall be placed under the i'm.
mediate care of the Vincentian Fathers.
need hardly say that the declarations of tie
Bishops on this and other topics have been
commented on in the whole English, Scotch,
and Irish press; and the publication Of the
Synod DEGREES are looked for every where with
great anxiety. The circumstance shows that
the Protestant organs don't believe what they
say when they affect to make light of the result
of the deliberations of the Bishops.
The Synod at Maynooth lasted nearly three
weeks. 1t was attended by all the Irish Bish.
ops kept DR.. Walsh, of Kildare, who, how.
ever, was represented by his coadjutor, DR..
Lynch by the mitred Abbot of the Trappists
of Mount Mellery, County Waterford; by the
Provipcials of eight religious Orders and by
thirty-four canonists and tbeologians assisting
the Bishops. Only the Bishops and the mitred
Abbot, however, possessed votes. In addition
the Rev. DR.. lyman (Secretary of His Emni.
hence, Cardinal Cullen,) and the Rev. Dr.
OHiggins were present as shorthand reporters,
taking rerbdtim note of the discussions Of
each day, which they transcribed in the even
ing; and I may mention that as soon as the
notes were written out they were Autographed
in the College, under the directions of the Rev.
DR.. Walsh, Professor of Theology. Each Nom.
6sr of the Synod was thus supplied every day
at breakfast with a full and accurate report Of
the proceedings of the day before. believe
such thing was not done before in ireland,
and am not sure that it has been done in the
case of similar ecclesiastical assemblies in any
other Countrywide case of the Vatican Coun'
Gil alone excepted and even there DR.. lyman
and DR.. O'Higgins were amongst the short
hand reporters. Such circumstance is credit
able to the Irish Church. Cardinal Cullen"
course, presided over the Synod as PapaI 1t
gate, and, as have said, he delivered the ser
mon at the final public session, having, among
other auditors, several distinguished Protest.
ants, including the Duke of Leinster tH
Duchess of Westminster, the Lady Alice FLU
gerald, and Lord Leveson Cover, ~ G. IheIs
were two other public sessions altogether, anu
at those the preachers were DIR. Leahy, Bish0p
of Dromore, and DIR. Moriarty, Bishop OF kerry
Whose sermon illustrative of the text that tp'
world hates the Church, was a scathing per,
Torrance, and was, consequently, the oRJecs"
much hostile but feeble comment in the nv
testant newspapers.
One of the most powerful passages in Ln'
pastoral address alluded to above refers to Wv
vice of intemperance. The Bishops attrlO.S
nearly all the crime and half the poverU
the country to drunkenness. This vice. Wv.
say, has wrecked more homes than the crow
brigade in the worst days of eviction -
brought more heart-rending sorrows in its p
than the enforced emigration of the last GU.
ter of century. They therefore call W :,
parents and employers, especially, to se' ~,
example of temperance; they bless heaf"S
the efforts of all temperance advocates 90
exhort the people generally to join tempeL'Ss ,..
societies and oonfraternities and to hS'o m
qaent recourse to the saeraments. There y N
doubt that such procurement will DO 'n''
good. ,,-.;ons
There has been some further contFl ~ ,,Iot
to the literature of the Mansion HousI Too
since wrote last. Mr Mcswiney has SoAs