The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-04-23
Star and Catholic messenger.
sa~ yxLEANs. SUNDAY. April 90 lg7s.
TIE CHUACH IN FRANCE md Iy.iLI
ILondon Tablet, April, u

1t eeems plain that q sharp Crisis OF hos
Utility, and perhaps persecution, awaits the
Il Church in France and Italy. The adven
of the Depretis Cabinet makes the situation
at Rome decidedly worse and the Dufanre
Ricard- w addiugton combination at Yer
eailles appears more than ever disposed to
abandon the Catholic interests as sop to
D the Radicals. There is not much chance,
Indeed, that Radicalism will accept any
such sop. Warned by the example OF
the German Radicals, who let themselves
DO blipdIy led about by Prince Bismarck e
bait of war on Christianity, the follow
ing of NJ. Gambetta will require much more
substantial satisfaction than any mere
exilipg of Jesuits or suppression of univer-
eities. The Prefectures and the Sub pre-
+ lectures, the Embassasies and Legations,
these and the ten thousand minor posts and
offices are what the Republique Francaise
claims for the Radical party. In q word,
the Radicals want to possess the entire
State, and the criminal fancy that they can
be turned from their covetousness by
sacrificing to their vindictive ignorance
and malignity the religious liberty of the
French Catholics is as foolish as it is wick
ed. M. Washington is simply pulling
down the strongest support of the social
: edifice. Thus warned by the trimming of
& the Orleanists, which has only resulted in
the political annihlation of that body, he
rs proceeding on the self. same path to in
ainitely lower levels. Certainly the Radi-
hypocrisy in the matter.nuThey do not
veil their designs for bge instant.
True autocrats, and the mss autocratic of
the kind, they openly pronounce that their
motto is LA France, c'cst nous" and as
man can do what he likes with his own,
they neither use nor pretend any scruples
:. In the execution of their policy of DONNA
tion. Since the days when Electoral
Committees of the House of Commons
were no more than the customary mecEan-
ism for validating or quashing on strict
party reasons the contested election of n
Wing or Tory candidate, there has not
been seen so utterly indecent an exhibition
OF partisan unscrupulousness as the K adj
cal majority of the Chamber of Deputies
have presented for the past ten days. At
the same time, seldom has the "Peuple
'Souverain" been scurvily treated as by
che Gambetta orators in their perorations
against the validity of Conservative cleo
lions. A complete indictment against |
Universal Suffrage could be compiled from |
the Radical dlscourses in which the cleo. |
'Vors who happen to vote the Conservative |
programme are represented as builed by |
every passing gendarme, terrOrised in mass
by simple curates, seduced to vote against
their principles by glass of sour wine, a
DAD cigar, or, in extreme cases, five franc
piece. Yet NJ. WaddingtOn. a Cambridge
man, who rcpudiates the University lib
erty of Cambridge, makes himself the tool
even the fundamental articles of their own
creed in their furious hostility to all Con-
and all religion.
In Italy the Left are in fun possession
of power at last, and their first declaration
betrays an intention to use the methods of
derr Falk against the Church in Italy. A
few days ago the German correspondent of
German journal, the anti Catholic
hotnische Zeitung, writing from that CITY {
which all men once honored as. Eternal, {
dnds himself compelled to express himself I
% follows over the terrible change which
has occurred I, ~ cannot help it; must
confess that Rome is no longer Rome. .
from universal city it has been dragged :
Town to the grade of a capital of a petty =
x1ngdom that tries TO play the Great 3
3ower,' but cannot do it. Formerly men .
luitted Papal Rome, even for few days /
lpon the heart. To the Rome of to day Il
me- says most willingly adieu." Such is a
Dc verdict of German on the desecrated n
rome of Victor Emmanuel, Garibaldi. n
1inghetti, and Depretis. And yet it is Z
ikoiy thatthe last state of the fallen city a
7iil be even worse. than this before j.
he hour of regeneration can be expected h
Anxious times awaits us-Of that am a
onvinCed." 1t is thus that an Italian
quoted in the AAJcmicne lei q
llH9, expresses himself with regard to the "
dvent 20 power of this new Italian" n
'6DiESI' NuL tuaI lHt parsonage IN uQeS Il
ion ia ~ partisan of the fallen MinChetti tc
Ministry. On the contrary, he expresses W
he conviction that the faults and the dis p'
nations of the parties which have hitherto 1t
office were garng that no p'
ther result was possible. Neither does he
elieve in their return to power. They m
re, he declares, in every way "played- 81
ut, as an American would say. But their n
nccessors are SO utterly unfit for the bust h,
ess OF serious Government, are SO utterly e.
nprincipled and worthless in every public p
ense, that their victory only inspires this II
nti- Papal and antiItalian 'Italian" with a,
bar aud repulsion. "The Left" he cries, ~,
have neither known nor wished any o.
purse of procedure except ever and always q,
D vote in the negative, to reach out the f.
and to every species of discomfort, and to m
eek allies in every kind of incapacity and hi
mOiGuity. No Ministry composed of such h,
len can ever satisfy the confused, I'M at
mited, contradictory wishes and hopes of r.
heir own party. STILL more, as an essen M