The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-14
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by himself, rs T. Albert Vaudry. The his
tory of this man, 80 far as known to US, il
not an agreeable one to contemplate
Though never formally accepted by oul
ecclesiastical authorities aud regularly
enrolled among the clergy of the Diocese
he by great and ncessant importunitiee
obtained temporary appointments for the
exercise of his clerical functions. But he
never gave satisfaction any where. The
auspices under which he came here were of
a dubious character, and it was but the
impulse of charitable hope that he might
retrieve himself which moved our venera
BILE Archbishop to give him trial.
AZ he had previously rambled from
Diocese to Diocese, having oficated in
three of them before coming to this, 80 here
he was sent frat to one parish then to
another, sometimes in the city and some
| times in the country, causing dissatisfac-
| ton, sowing discord, scheming for per-
| sonsl ends everywhere, and rejected at
| every place after a trial som etimes of few
days and never of more than a few
months, until finally he was notified that
| the last opportunity had been given him.
This was his instalment at the point
where he has f1naliy fallen into the open
apostasy which has so much scandslized the
Catholics of this Diocese. His conduct
there became so outrageous that the Ordin-
airy of the Diocese removed him from his
charge of the Parish, and sent another priest
to replace him. He refused to surrender to
that priest the possession of the church
building and its accessories, at the same
time organising q determined resistance on
the part of the majority of the trustees of
that property. The result was his excommu-
nication aud that of his lay abettors and
confederates.
After writing, publishing and attempting
to circulate some infamous ISLANDERS con-
corning prominent Catholics of the Diocese,
this wretched man finally proposed to
several of the clergy, who in the fullness of
their charity thought that he might still be
reclaimed, that he would ALLURE his errors,
make public an,ende for his wrong doings,
and leave the State, if he could get the
means to carry him away. These gentlemen
promised to provide him the requisite
sum as soon as the public recantation
should be made, but not sooner, as other
wise it would be simply putting it in his
power to go elsewhere and repeat his
escapades of this vicinity.
The unfortunate man went up to his
home, got married by Protestant preacher,
and returning the next day, or soon there
after, to the city, applied to his friends for
the promised funds. But the news had pre-
ceded him by telegraph. He was informed
that the event was known, whereupon he
denied it positively until the dispatch was
shown him. The next we hear of him is
through a letter over his own signature
written to the Republicans of this city and
published by that paper.
Our Radical contemporary, true to it's in
stincts of evil, is delighted with the apos.
tasy of poor Vaudry, and prefaces his letter
with Mandatory notice in which he is
treated as "Our Hyacinthe" The letter is
not only a wishy- washy, school boy argu
ment against celibacy, but is full of in
famous and obscene illusions and personal
charges. These personal charges are made
against highly respectable clergyman who
has grown old in the duties of his venerable
calling and who enjoys the unbounded con-
fdenCe of his parishiOners. Even if such
charges were true, respectable man would
not make them in the fippant, uncere-
monious style of a newspaper correspon-
dence, which becomes brutal, indeed, by
it's levity under the seriousness of the cir
cumstances. Buff perchance man should,
under the spur of personal excitement, so
far forget himself as TO make such charges
in such a manner, where could he find a
respectable paper to publish them on his
mere word, without his furnishing particle
| of proof of their veracity3 -
We do not believe that thoroughly de-
cent paper could be found open to such a
proposition. The Republican, however,
publishes as gospel the filthy ISLANDERS of
disreputable, scandalous vagrant, and
endorses them as truth, without intima-
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