The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-10-17
Y0RKGN MAIL NXWs.
dates to Sept a5.I
POLAND.

TENDER, written by person who has been
lately journeying in the Diocese Of Chelm,
gives the following parttculars:- -" In the
neighborhood of Biala the gendarmes still
continue to force the Converts to go to
church no one voluntarily goes to listen to
the apostate Popes, who frequently preach
TO empty benches. On the other hand, the
Latin churches (many of which, however,
are closed, some handed over to the Schis.
matics) are filled to OVERLOOKING with de-
Won't people, The Russian police, who
Dotonly regularly assist at the Latin divine
service, but do 80 with q punctuality
which is most unusual, make it almost
impossible for the 'Uniates' to receive the
Holy Sacramento in the Catholics Churches.
OF those who were formally arrested, on
40 in prison from Biallo, about 100
belonging to Miedzyrzecz, while at least
so persons belonging to these two towns
and the neighboring districts have been
transported to distant places in the in
terror of Russia.
germany.
Whilst it is announced from every part
of Germany that the religious men and
women have to leave the country, those
holy persons do not cease to give proofs OF
their untiripg charity. At Essen, great
manufacturing town, where Krupp makes
his monster guns, on the Low Rhine, where
the dyseptery has broken out, the Sisters
of Charity at present are busy attending
the sick men and women, whilst even many
of the relatives of the sick refuse to assist
them.
If there is any danger in the CuIturtsar
for the Catholics of Germany, it is in the
aggressive power which the Government
employs to influence the schools. The
priests, who were nh to the present time
local and district INSPECTORS of the elemen-
tary schools, have been deposed every where,
and cold" and "new" heretics, or at least
such sham Catholics as favor the Govern
ments Church policy, are put In their pla-
ces. The priests are not even allowed to
teach religion in the schools, and all books
| which are Catholic are removed, and secu-
larist ones are introduced. A District
School Inspector, in Alsace, declared some
time ago, at the meeting of the school
masters of bis district, many of whom were
Catholics: "You must teach the children
that Professionalism is the predominant re-
ligion." Other district inspectors force the
schoolmasters subjected to them to show by
addresses, ETC., that they agree with the
Church policy of the Government.
Father Gabriel, Capucian monk, OF
Ehrenbreitenstein, was accused two weeks
ago of having refused Absolution to the
Mayor of Vallendar, because that gentle
man acknowledged the May Laws. The
Mayor himself was, of course, the only wit
ness, and he confessed that the Absolutlon
had been refused on account of other rea-
sons as well. Nevertheless, the Public
Prosecutor requested three months i'm
prisonment aud instan tapeous seizure of the
Criminal" Indeed, Father Gabrial was
condemned by the Court of Justice to three
months imprisonment, in spite of the bril-
liant defence made for him by an excellent
attorney.
In spite of such facts as the foregoing, the
Governments Reptile Press continues tc
tell US that the Prussian Church-legislatior
does not touch the interior life of the Church
although not the priest, but the secular
judge, according to the sentence above
mentioned, has to decide when penitent
is to be absolved or not!
1t may be added, for the benefit" F =
Protestant readers. that - you
uound to nr"-~ oh.oint .ae si EHn.eSs ahop
. a4 mat has happened in the confessional
l and is not allowed to say one simple wore
in his defence when he is accused as to VIII.
he refused Absolution.
ROME.
A Consistory was held on the morning O
the 18th of September. His Holiness ap
peared in his usual health. The first bust
ness transacted was the transference of tn
+ Auguetinian Cardinal, Thomas Martinelli
4 from the order of Cardinal Deacons to tha
q of Cardinal Priests.
e The Cardinals created and reserved 4
i petto on the 18th of March last were the
9 declared, namely:
. In the Order of Priests-Monsignor LUG
: Emidio Automatic, Patriarch OF Constan
= tinople, Auditor General of the Gamer
Apostolica, born in Recanati on the 23rd g
t March, 1911. Monsignor Salvatore Nobil
r Vitelleschi, Archbishop of seleucia, Secre
y tary of the Congregation of Bishops an
Q Regulars, born in Rome, July, 2lst, 1915
Monsignor Giovanni simeoni, Archbisho
! of Chalcedonia in partibas, Apostolic Nun
= clio at Madrid, born in Pagliano, Decembe
d 81, 1916.
Q In the Order of Observation-Disclosures Lo
renzo Randi, Vice. Camerlengo to the Hol
+ Roman Church. born in Bsgnacavallo, Die
# cese of Faenza, July IL, 1918. Monsigno
n Bartolomeo Pacca, Majordomo of His Holi
3 ness, born in Benevento, February 25, 1877
y The Pope then created a Cardinal Of tn
3 Order of Priests, in the person of Monsig
q nor Godefroy Brossais Saint Marc, Arch
o bishop of Rennes, born in Rennes, Febru
airy I, 1903.
Eight Archbishops and twenty Bishop
were then appointed, among the latter be
o ing the Rev. John Prendergast, Vicar-G Gen
Q eral of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
i appointed Coadjutor to Bishop O'Connel
: of Grass Valley, Cal.