The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-07-23
9srnIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
RELIGIOUS NEWS ITEMS.
NV ORLEANS SUNDAY, JULY So 1876

New Orleans in 1721.
Nearly a hundred academies and schools are
now in charge of the Sisters of Charity.
The first priest ordained in the United States
1vas the Rev Stephen t. Badin. He was or
dained on May 25th, 1893.
ST. BoNIFAcIUs' CHURCH. PHILADELPHIA
It will be gratifying to all good Catholics to
know that the Most Rev. Arch bishop Wood
cbnroh, SO heavily involved by the Apostate
Gerdem ann, over to the charge of the Fathers
of the Congregation of the Most Holy he
deemer: The change will be most happy one,
and will at once restore confidence ana orlng
peace to that sorely tried parisn.-hFeendn
Journal.
WORKS OF THE REV. FATHER FABER.
No theological writer of modern times has
succeeded in accomplishing more for the edit
Frederick William Feber, DID, one of the most
distin guished of the Oratorian Fathers. The
sale OF the hsv; sr;c: os d ID 1oo nnN
Numerous foundations have been published in
Germany, France, Belgium and Italy, of which
grand total of upwards of 300 900 copies of the
works Of this holy and most fascinating devo-
tional writer.
PREsBYTERIANs AND BAPrrsTs.
There is not much love lost between the
Presbyterians and the Baptists. In the issue
of the ST. Louis Presbyterian for June %, T..
Gallagher has an article, column and q half
in length, beaded Reply No. g." in which he
attacks the Baptists' theory of baptism, and in
the course of which be says: " By the way, sir,
if you take ont of our English Bible the " ridi-
cuIous blunders" made by the kings transla-
tors, you will take away the only foundation
distipc tive doctrine of the whole Baptist
Theory is based upon spurious Greek texts
on : false and erroneous trsnslations.'"
ITALY AND MASSACHUSETTS.
Mr.. Wendell Philips made speech last week
at the Massachusetts Convention of Liquor
in rh he hal
of prohibition was not large enough to form q
party on, everybody had better pack their car
pet-bag and CO. Why, property was not so safe
here as in Italy, and yet were Protestant, edu-
Gated, liberal, Saxon. 1t was nothing but drink
which put Massachusetts, Saxons below Catho-
lie, ignorant, depraved, robbed Italy," Observe
the point of the orators inference. Ignorant,
depraved, Catholic Italy, is honest ; educated,
Saxon, Protestant Massachusetts " is dishonest
because the laW allo,cs liquor to be sold. Does
Mr.. Philips mean to say that there is a pro-
hibstory law in Italy There is no suoh thing,
but freer system than any in America. The
purity of the Catholic Italians is due to quite
hibitory fanatics would search under other
stones, they might find the real cause of the
impurity and dishonesty of "Saxon, Protestant
Massachusetts, Boston Pilot
BISHOP PELLrCER ON HIS RETURN.
The Ri. Rev. DR.. Pellicer, Bishop of San An
tonic, Texas. reached this port the 10th inst,
on his return from Europe, by the Inman
steamer City of Chester. Bishop Felicer is &C.
C0InpanleN by onIy one priest, the rev. ID.
Twomey, of the Diocese of Cork, and who made
his ecclesiastical studies at All Hallows. But
other priests for the new Diocese are promised,
and some of them may be coming with Father
Felix, who is to arrive in La France next week
and others with Father Nersz about October
next. Bishop Pelliosr, four weeks before his
landing at New York, had a private audience
of considerable duration with our Holy Father
the Pope. The Holy Father asked him, in de- |
tail, about the interests of his Diocese and, |
especially, about Catholic sohools for the yonng
Ia kad ffN hnth or rrsofov
was made for Catholic schools for the children |
OF the blacks, and expressed himeelf much con- |
soled at the accounts given him by the good
Bishop. Bishop Pe1licer will remain in New |
York FOR some days. to receive Father Felix and |
the priests and ReIigieuse he brings with him.
N. 7. FTesmGns Journal.
THE "DEv1L" IN PROTESTANT CHURCHES.
1t is not necessary that a member of the e.
tablished Church of England should believe in |
the DEVILS existence Ihis point wss Settled, |
some months ago, by decision of the Court of |
Arches. wbich restored to the full membership |
Of the Episcopal communion man who had |
been guilty Of unsoundness concerning the doc
trine of the devil, and which condemned the
clergy man who had deprived him of his church
rights on that account. Bnt the Lutheran de-
nomination in this vicinity more rigorous
in their orthodoxy. and will permit no denial of
the devil. A Lutheran pastor over in Williams
burgh was called to baptiEe Lutheran baby
last Sunday; but when it appeared from the
replies to certain questions, that the child's
father did not believe in the devil, the pastor
PrSAIANSIy refused TO Jn6 S8CrAm0nGoI
rite to the poor little thing, which remains I'M
baptized to this day. The father was willing
to give his assent to the doctrines of the Christ
ian faith If the pastor could leave ont the devil
but the pastor was relentless, and insisted that |
the parent should proclaim his belief in the |
devil. Thus the case still stands. The pastor
will not let up on the devil, and the child's |
father will not recognize the devil.
THE NEW FEAST AND OFFICE OF THE BLESSED |
VIRGIN.
a new Feast and Office of the Blessed Virgin,
just established by the Holy See at the instance
of the Fathers of the Congregation of the Most
Holy Redeemer, was celebrated for the first
time on the 18th of June in Rome. A picture
of the Mother of God had been venerated for
800 years in small Augustinian church, be-
tween the Lateran Bssilica and st. Mary Ma
jor's, up to the period of the French Revolution,
under the title of Our Lady of Perpetual Succor.
The church, during the antiChristian uproar
of that time. was destroyed, and with it the
picture itself the history of which is most re-
markable, was supposed to have persisted.
Such was not. however, the case, and on the
Goth of Aprl, 1866 it was transported by order
Of Dive rEo yorsr1 60 g