The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-10-08
Had Better.

refers to the murderous spirit attributed
to Professionalism is previous article OF
ours. What our contemporary can mean
by the expression had say is, of course,
matter of con lecture. Lindley, Murray leaves
Us unadvised as to any such form of Fog
lish, still, as the BulletnS advice is not
charged for, we must try to construc it lib
orally.
Supposng, then, generally that We are
warned against such conduct as an act Of
inpolicy, we m ust ask, whyf Why, indeed,
does the Bulletin take upon itself the
friendly task We remember that in
the same Issue in which was Published
the article excepted to by the Bulletin there
was another more calculated to attract the
attention of that paper. Therein we warn
ed it that its discomfort with the Parish
ticket, however innocent in itse {, might
be nisuuderstood 10y some persons rs indi-
eating Know Nothing instinct. Instead
of thanking US for that friendly hint, in
stead of correcting the erroneous impress
sion that might have arisen from its IN
guarded language, instead of hurting night
out in indignant tones its protest against
the miserable, vile, unmauly, degrading,
bigoted Intolerance of Know Nottingham,
the Bullettin, letting the happy opportunity
| slip, catches US up GA an issue wherein the
non sectarian press seems to have no mis-
sion, and takes upon itself the champion
ship of Professionalism. We thought we
were safely kicking q dead horse, and, 10!
live journal Jumps up and claims to be it's
rider.
Perhaps it was the love of mild forbear-
ance and Christian meekness which promp-
ted our neighbor to xpostulste with US upon
what it enormously took to be harshness.
Perhaps 30; but then it comes out rather
| late in that line. For several years fierce
persecution, not in words only but in acts,
| has been waged against the Catholic Church
! in Germany, SWi z9rlanQ, and Italy. TIE
| EuIieti. WAS dumb. Archbshops, Bishops,
prests aud layneu have been bauisheG,
| plundered fined. imprisoned for ii exeTcsa
Of their religious duties as they understood
them. The Bulletin, so far we may judge,
thought it all right; it made no protest.
Immense amounts OF property belonging to
Religious Orders have been forcibly taken
from them and the members of the same
Orders-men and women-expatriated. No
indignation from the Bulletin That
meek and Christian paper sees nothing
harsh in al! THE, but fires up, and fires
off, too, in very cCntemptuous illusions
to MoRNISG STARS AND CATHOLIC MES
sENGERs, if tue spirit which instigates
the robbery and persecution isysVgma-
I zed as "epiri, of hatred s61 muSder.'
q Oar ueIgL Dor thinks We :. had letter say
. very little about that that it is not safe
e issue FOX Catholics TO raise; that people who
:. live in glass houses ought to be cautious, etc
, Still We are reckless enough TO reaftirm yer!
i, deliberately the proposition 10 which it eX
i, Ceptcd. We affirm that the statutes o
Is vsCivns Protes aut communities and cOun
) tries, II not of al! OF them, have provide
le for the punishment, and ofIentimea eve
,, unto death, of rlen for simply holding tn
< Catholic creed or some other creed cnrfl CT
ing With theirs. We further affirm that TN
"a epirlt of the law, ii theory and practice, wa
t. fully sanctioned and approved hy all lead
E ing Protestant writer's ana authuIitie
y We then say that lie !s "a murderer VI!
IT, would kill man, or permit him to ue kl!ic'
- or rejoice in lie having been killed, for L
criminal act but simply his bona .tde bell
i religious dogma true or false.
Now, history will bear rs out ia say in
at that Protestant Governments, with the fu
at assent &. Protestant public sentiment, hay
Isl enacted and executed laws Furnishing
80 various ways, sometimes even with deaf
~, the mere holding of certain dogInstic b,
lief. Therefore the spirit of that Cover
- ment and of that Professionalism was emu
&c. der"
ASS But the Catholic Church is jdet rs deep
he the mjre, the Bt!Ietin wcu}d say. Not f
On, The Catholic Church has never consentt
j., or permitted the s'ightest punishment
be any man 70: his bona .fde religious belle
e" No such statutes, with but one excepuon
nv lar as We know, can be fOuLd in the recor
w, of any Catholic Government. The one di