The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-09-02
tFrom the San Francisco Monitor,


ct which do great injustice to the Cathoi
o. Cnurch and as there is no argument .
ID Siear ana conclusive as that which
10 founded on facts and figures, we shall pre
- y, sent some proof, from official sources. Z
"a snow that the Catholic Church establish
d ehG ls Tue least expensive of any to Tn
" people where it prevails. France ia th
f nost populous Catholic nation of Eurone
:. Oat or a total population of SO 600 O0O
8 only about 900 600, are Protestants, an,
Ioo ooo Jews. The Catholic Church is the
D Church of State, but all other denomina
tiohs are allowed full liberty to worship AS
they choose, and the Protestants and J.ws
nave allowances from the State. To the Pro-
, testants yearly sum of 5000 600, or in the
@tatio @ oi sixty cents per capita of all that
iaitn, is paid from the public treasury
while To the 81 0e6, 600 of Catholics tbe
Shurca allowances is SIG .O0O, 900, or lees
IMAM nifty cents per capita. Contraeted with
catholic France is Protestant ENGLAND
whose Established d Church draws the TearIy
sum OF SAC, 900 600, and whose population.
ofnlnatlonally, is stated as follows: Es.
taoished Church, Il. ZOO, 600; other Protes,
Jews aud others, 600 600. The per CAPITA
10 the Established Church is above s;}
euu, -@htie Catholic France allows a greater
per capita to her Protestant residents
Iuan 10 her Catholic population, Protestant
Gag Gngianu allows nothing whatever to the
a
Cathollcs in England is as to z, while the
ratio OF Prosteatants to Catholics in France
Ia on y to 81. Austria is the next most
populous Catholic nation of Europe. Sixty.
nEe per cent. of her total population ia
SSa0holic' only ten per cent. Protestant. |
. ieeuom OF rellgious worship is guaranteed |
TO all, and the Church establishment ia
rated at less than thirty cents per CAPITA |
yearly. f'' N"pt'"
In Protestant Germany where the Cath
c onc population Ia, in round numbers. IS
ooo,o ,ooO, and the Protestant %. 900, 600, the
property of the Catholic Church has been
violently seized under Bismerck,s rnta
and the per capita charge for the snDnore @
OF the State religion is above fifty cents
yearly. In Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Bel
gum, With almost an entirely Catholic
pop 1iatlon in each, the per capita cost of )
The Church establishment is less than 35
,t ents per annum There is federation for
1stlons. On the other hand, we have
IehmarB, Norway aud Sweden, which are
Almost exclusively Protestant, and per
'aplta Church tax in each is about AZ cents
'er year. In Switzerland the Protestant
,,opoIatlon , Is GOO, 600, against l 1000, 900 {
,aInollcs, ana the government is practically
'rotestant. Jesuits are vigorously exclu- Z
ed from the State. 7 he per capita Protes- =
ant tax ID 43 cents. To show, in detailed q
ern, the difference there is between the
ilowance to the Catholic Church establish
1ent in Catholic nations, and that I'm the
Protestant establishment in Protestant
o1ntries, we will again contrast England
no france, anc give, incidentally, Bel
um and Germany. =
In France there are seventeen ar.b A
lshops, whose allowance is 81 600 ner an
nm nineteen bishops, SO, 600 each one
1nred 1nared and ninety-two vicar generals.
3OO" /; seven hundred and thirtv.two
mons, $500; three thousand five hundred
ID thirty one pastors, $500; thirty. one
ousand five hundred and sixty- nine en-
tes, from $l00 down to $50. ONLY the
and bishops are provided with
sioences; the vicar generals, aud all b
her grades below, have to provide their
IN lodging out Of the very scanty al.
vance In E'g'and, the Archbishop of
MERCURY receives Il yearly sum of S75.-
U the Archbishop OF York, $50 900 the
shop of Dorham, $50 OOO of Winchester
o,oOo of Ely, $27, 500; of Bath and Pa
ellis, Of Exeter, of Lincoln, of Oxford nf by
chester, of Salisbury, aud of Gloucester LIE
d Bristol, each $25, 900; and, following DIR
'se, are seven bishops whose salary 10 Ia
n 900; six, of $4,000 each: and Act
D OF $4,000 each. Next follow the Do
lns. thirty in Dnmher, with salaries from La
900 down to S3, 500 then one hundred Cot
twenty canons, at from S5 900 n DIR
|5u the seventy one archdeacons, at
N ~ 20 to $500 the parochial clergy
30 on down to the stipendiary cnrates
rura! deane, to total of about 23 600
sohs, who receive all the way from ri
300 to $500 per year. And to all but the Az
rest and lowest of these grades there ia
vlded either palace or parsonage or
yinge, free of cost. The reader can.
fail to observe the difference there ia PHli
Veen the meagre allowance of the Nu4l
hollc prelates Of the highest rank in
nee and the enormous salaries of the sci
litaries of the English Church, and also D1,
much better the English clergy are B =
than the priesthood of France. The
loiic prelates of Germany and Belgium r
similarly, as also do the clergy. The l.
lbishop of Breslau receives only So 500
year and the bishops $5 500 each. In o.
ium the Archbishop is allowed 81 200 oeN9'
the five bishops So, 200 each,
,anons each S4OO, and the priests from
all the way down to $40. We have
ented facts and figures enough to sub
late our position. But, if further tes
ny were required, we would not have
} beyond our own country to obtain it.
amount received by His Eminence the
inal Archbishop of New York is actu
less than half of that which is paid as
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