The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-14

and the law Of man. The flrst u e el
alent to right. the SECOND = 40. atnteu
sarily so. The iftloulty g ssn y, tha fnct
aud The Catholic Churoh l.es ~ s ,vn
y ans With riuht. and that what - legal,
th.rsrora ,n,ist commend itself TO she
Christiat conscience.
vii.
Harm aiao. we see the peculiar. mode
- rnersesution against the Church,
~ ,,sod in modern times, as VI was re.
useu al before. The brutal force OF
snr,aar DAYS IL disguised under the
sor,,,s of legality. the enemy masks
It's batteries behind the dazzling
names of liberty. civilization ana pro
eress and how many, even among
Catholics and well meaning men, nave
been the victims OF the fatal Illusion
This nineteenth century, at least the
latter half oft, hos. been lauoeu anu gip-
rifled 40 the age of freedom-as the no
eral age. -, a.. ,,,a
Catholics began to forget their MS
tory they began to think the era OF
| peraecution for conscience sake over,
when thew heard 1t proclaimed Oh ell
aides that perfect freedom OF thought
was The order Of the day there wal. 10
be no distinction of perspns. the non
was to lie down with the lamp, the
world 10 become q haven. OF brotherly
love, and the dawn OF the miileh,u,,, W,
,vna ,stspt, In heaven the rack. the glib.
hat. the fngot and the hurdle were all
to be hnnished out OF sight and forgot
ton, or only preserved IN museums as
evidence al what horrible beings our
Hires could become. 1t was ~ very
gushing and nice the narrow lines OF
nraiudioe were TO be softened down. ana
oid.fogy. stiff kneed notions to be voteo
out. r.tar,r
successor Liberalism Is Jdtse peWaIe
of IL. IT Ia only few years back since
thnae words startled the world IN the
Sv1labus. A storm Of hatred and fury
nroae on all sides, endeavoilng. 10
drown The voice Of the Church. VINO
ara van who condemn us 7 asked the
world The infallible head Of the Church
Man asserted that Catholics themselves
aid not accept ~ and the Catholic
Church spoke out boldly In these, days
not to proclaim . new doctrine. put e
acknowledges before n doubling wore
what it had always accepted anu De
iieyrd. that the head OF the Ohuref
anon earth ia ingallible. There was ne
, more talk Of softening down lines
Catholics believed this, or they were no
And ali the facts in these latter years
have confirmed the sentence uttered b'
the Supreme Poniff. Liberalism Il
faise. Prince Bismarck deserted thu
conservative party to which no hau az
hered 30 long. aud threw himself int
|. the arms Of the liberals. the o,dious GO
eIesiastical bills were the result OF ina
conversion, such is liberalism. W.
| ri, III ~
, snhoola and receive tho education W,
,, give them, which you call goddess.
, saws Huxley, scientitic liberal like Dr
, Falk. La Commune was the essence Q
liberalism. and it shot tho Archbishop o
!, paria and the other victims out OF pur
, snort apparently. "A free church in
free State" was tho Cavour doctrine TO
+ liberal Italy, and the bill for the appro
priation of church property ana OF tina
! belonging to religious orders, and SOM
/ other bills etill more infamous, hay
a followed naturally upon the appropria
d ton OF tho Papal States, and the impr1
Y yenps. ea,,s sJ.Ge. b cad. .of the Church
o It's dealings with the Catholic olerg,
- The South American States have don
O the same in the name of liberalism. Th
|. whole world may be traversed an
q wherever liberalism ia strongest. ther
/ 10 violence done In the name of freedom
Z Such is the result Of that spirit of libel
j, ty which is nothing else but the libert
D Of corruption and of blasphemy ii
Y only aim is to crush whatever is honor
: to see a feeling Of dissatisfaction ut al
{ underlined something In all the moder
9 States. IL is likewise very plat
: that the true Catholic. In battling 70
: his religion. is battling at the Same tim
1 for freedom and the rights of man
: The mailed hand. red already with til
life-blood Of three nations, which nov
snites the Church, will not hesitate Il
, crush to powder every semblance 0
, freedom which stands In It's path. HI
=. who attacks the rights of God will
/, laugh at the puny rights Of man. sim
ply as man-and they who have bowe,
down before the State god, have forge,
for themselves an agent of self-destruc
ton.
Happily Catholics have faith in Got
above it all. If this persecution ha
] done no other good, 1t has brought on
to the eyes Of the world, in a wonderful
manner. the vastness and unity OF the
Catholic Church. Some years ago, the
cry was: infallibility will not be ac
cepted. Later on, religious communi
ties were banished from their homes
and when the last remnant OF the Papa
States was torn from the Holy Father
tho world cried out the Papacy Is dead
When few disappointed and faithless
men showed their heads in Germany
with all the powers OF the throne III
their back, men cried out: there Is
to be new schism. What do the,
say nowp How stands Rome to-
day2 Never more united, though never
did the world collect its forces with
greater fury to overwhelm It!
Meanwhile, the Catholic universe
speaks out. and from the ends of the
earth comes back the protest, echoed
from point to point, and gathering vol
ume as 1t goes: 1--WE protest as men,
we protest as free citizens. we protest as
Chrlstiansl" Your unjust laws may be
carried out, the bishops will 60 to
prison, will pay the fines, or become
exiles; but they will continue to ordain
priests and educate them, in spite of
Caesar and OF his legions. The just
rights Of the State, whether monarchy
or republic, are sacred in their eyes, but