The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-09
Nsrning Star sno Gatsolic Messenger.
Hnw ORLEANS, SUNDAY. MAYS ,s7s.
IBstsr from the Archbishop and Bishops Of the
Province Of Toronto, Canada West, to the BISHOPS
al Germany.
ST. MICHAELs PALACE, I
Toronto, Canada, April OBJ, 1873. )
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Toronto, Canada, April %, 1873.
70 the Editor of the Herald.
Dear Sri beg to send you for publica-
tom the English translation of our JOINT
Better to the bishops of Germany, trusting
shat Won will give it a place in your excel
Beat Journal, which, being most extensively
read tbrougb out the world, opens its columns
no the combat for liberty. In q few days
We shall send copy of the same letter for
qualification to the Journals of Europe. The
struggling Catholics of Germany want
cheer from America.
have the honor to be, my dear sir, your
most obedient servant.
JOHN JOSEPH LYNCH
Archbishop of Toronto.
To his Eminenoe Cardinal Ledocbowski. and to the
-Archbishops and Bishops of Germany:
.afost Reverend Lords and Venerable
Brothers in Christ-We, the Archbishop
and bishops of the Province of Toronto, in
Canada, taking occasion of our reunion at
abe conservation of our venerable brother,
ahe Bishop of Kingston, beg to address you
IN the language of the Holy Scripture,
Cenfortanaire ct estote riri." We admire
y0nr apostolic courage, we reverence the
prisons and the chains that witness. your
su&eTiDgs for Christ. You have chosen
rather to obey God than man, and for the
falAllment of your sacred ministry you re-
3y upon powers and graces given you by
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal Pastor
Of sonls, who goyerns His kingdom on
earth, the Church, through your ministry
and not through the ministry of the princes
az this world. The holy spirit of God has
placed over His Church bishops and not
princes. Bishops are the judges of true
and false doctrine, and judges of what is
right in the discipline of the Church. 1t is
aha Office of the oishops to watch over the
education of youth and especially of candi-
dates for the sacred ministry, to admit the
worthy and reject the unworthy, to ap-
point pastors OF souls. 1t is to the office
OF the bishops alone that the priests are
Aznenable for all things relating to their
saeerdotal functions. 1t is the duty of
hishops to uphold the good pastors of souls
and to sustain them in their struggle with
abe world to reprove, exhort and even to
remove from the sacred ministry, indepen-
sntly of any civil government, priests who
Aea0me unworthy of their position.
Your lordships have before your eyes
shat has unhappily befallen the church in
England, where prosecutions caused first
Eschisu and then heresy and the degrade
KiOA of the clergy and proclamation OF sacred
ahipgs. Your faithful people, thank God,
Are not prepared to receive an order of
shings totally at variance with the institu-
j.. Ainns OF Christ. We deeply sympathiEe
with them, deprived as they are, by the mi =
taui1y of q tyraunical government, of their
1Yne and legitimate pastors but we glory
IN the frmness and faith with which they
Gnndemn the enactments of their despotic
1piers, which, having no binding power
Shscause not founded upon justice and
arntb), refuse even sacred things from
Aaerilegious and polluted hands. We ad-
MIRO yoHs devoted clergy, who, though
4hsir chief pastors are struck in your sa-
used peraons and vast numbers of them
0aaves thrown into prisons for duty and
eatnseIence sake, are still neither overcome
hDT even Gispersed, but glory in their suf-
lRfjngs for Christ's sake.
Be are Delighted to earn that our Holy
FAther, to mark his appreciation of your
heroic gatherings for the faith, has beer
p Iased to raise to the most eminent digni
Hy of Cardinal one of your venerable body
aha ilastEious Archbishop of Posen, still il
&AaiDs. Courage then, most reverend
eso0Ghers and coufessors of the faith. tn,
Catholic world beholds you with admira
uiNn aud glories in your firmness. Embrac
wig Jon with brotherly affection and pro
fkannd veueration,
I've are ysur devoted brothers in Christ
JOHN JOSEPH LYNCH,
Archbishop of Toronto.
john, Bishop of London.
JOHN FRANCIS.
jRisbop OF Tarrpte, Vic. Apps. of n. Can.
PETER FRANCIS,
Bishop of Hamilton.
john O'BRIEN,
HiahOn nE K