The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-15

No's,"us com 10 unltles, have been se,ze
~ @uu .nel1 rlghtfnl owners being without e
ception dispossessed, converted to profa
uses. Moreover, many pions works a,
INSTITUTION 8. consecrated to the practice
cnarity and benefcence-some of the
Win admirable munifcence for the reli
t OF poverty and other distresses, found,
oy the Roman Pontiffs Our Predecessor
q d. others, oy the pious liberality of 70
o e'gn natiODs-have been withdrawn fro
= OR control and from the administration
the mlpisfersi and, if any of those works
puolic charity still remain under the supe
infendence of the Church, it is reporte
ehat law ia about at DO distant date to /
brought in by which they are either to b
taken from Us or totally abolished as
plainly and bare facedly announced i
public documents. Moreover We have seer
ana We state 1t, Our soul is pierced wit
extreme grief, the public and privat
| teaching OF the arts and sciences with
drawn from the authority and guidance O
the Church, and the duty of teaching en-
trustea 10 men OF suspected faith, or hostil.
TO the church, and who have not scrunlef
to make public profession of atbeistic inn
pety. e'''io III
but the recreant sons of the Church have
not been satisfied with tn US seizipg unon a,
rainlpg SO mapy important religious insti-
tiops' they must also place impediments in
tne way OF the ministers of the sanctuary to
duty; and they have gone so far in this
wicked project as to propose law which
mas been passed by the Legislative Chamber
ororators, and which is entitled the La,g nj
Cteracat Abuses, by virtue of which law are
made criminal and liable to heavy penal.
ues tne acts OF Bishops and also of priests
Wnlcn the authors of said law include under
the insidious phrase of disturbing what
tney call the public conscience and peece
or families. For example the law in ouea
ZION enacts, that all words and writings of
every kind by which the ministers of re-
iielon shall, in the discharge of their duty.
LINK IL r1ght to characterize or 6enounce
any oecree, regulation or act of the Gov
as opposed to the sacted rights in
vowed or to the laws of God or the Church
Ishall De liable to prosecution and to pen
altles, as shall also the action of the NH |
ishers or disseminators of such words mr. |
"rltings, from whatever rank or station of |
,cc'es'asticai authority they may have
'manated. When this law sh all have heen
passed and promulgated, it will be compe-
enI 10 Inc lay tribunal to judge whether
ma IN what manner priest, in adminis
erihg tne Sacramento or in preaching the
~ ora OF GOD, shall have disturbed the Dub
,c conscience or the peace of families. and
ne voice OF the Bishop or of the priest will
ether, nay even the voice of the Vicar If
esne Christ, who, although he is said for
CRITICAL reasons to be in himself liable tn
o mans censure, yet is a6judged to be ,
unstable in the person of the accom-. !
'Ices In his ofence; as q. member of the ,
loVe[nment IN his place in the Legislative t
nam Der did not scruple to declare plainlv i
reference to Us that it was no innovstio1 r
unusual thing in legislation and per /
GUY agreeable to the principles and nrac. q
ce OF criminal jurisprudence, that the b
to an offence should be made q
1ena e ole 60 punishment, when the princi. Il
II offender himself could not be- an maSa a,
'om which it is understood that. in no f.
tentlon OF those in power, this law ia n CO
stile weapon aimed even at Us. 40 that nj
1enever Our words or acts NAV hapnen II
offend against it, the Bishops or priests G
10 shall publish Our Words or execute W
# commands may undergo the penalties ae
ncipal shall be adjudged to be cbaros0 Ar
! 1 with tho legal responsibility. oh
3ehoid then, Venerable Brethren. bov to
only 30 many defences and so MANY an
tltotions, the growth of ages, aud the ne
vlVal OF 80 many commissions, and 40
'essary to the administration of the lib
utcn nave peen oVerthrown amongst Us oc
hostile violence and demolition. but of
ngs nave come to that pass that the Sub inf
9 ONCE of teaching and of WATCHING ers
+ and providing for the salvation IF mi
49, conferred on the Church by her vel
ne rounoer, Is Wlckedly interrapte req
the severest penalties enacted 70 al ter
e the voice of her ministers. who the
N they teach the people to observe ali the
e things that Christ commanded. when the
are instant in season and ont of sea. tior
when they reprove, entreat, rebuke in hon
patience and doctrine, do the thing ed.
"a ia commanded them by Divine and the
stoiic authority. We pass over in al. too,
the other dark Vaccinations of the ann
'nents of the Church to which as We AnC
know are not wanting the counseIs estI
lnstigatons of some of the ministers Of bnt
3, and the object of which is to bring mea
OF even greater tribulations on the now
'ch, or else to produce occasions of full 7
m when the election of future Pontjff and
take place, or to obstruct the xtrcise Sucl
le spiritual authority of the Bisbops to W
yer the Church in Italy, on which &C the
We have recently been compelled to citv
re 1t allowable that the acts of canon ercis
Institution of the said Bishops be exhib the
TO the secular authority, in order to OBJ assel
81 far as is in Our power, a most with
coDJuncture of affairs in which it was wors
nger the possession of the temperate clesi
hat was at stake, but the consciences struC