The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-15
or HIS HOLINESS, TIL
POPE.
ILcndon. Tablet, March 24.l


vered at the Vatican, in the Sacred COLES
assembled in Csnsistory on the 18th il
slant, and printed in the daily Catholi
sipurnals Of the Continent on Saturday las
snsrable Brethren:
During the sorrowful times of our pom
1ncate. We have on many occasions con
H yeneo Your most august order in tbi
alace with the intent of bewailing, will
= kou, the grievOas ills with which tb.
Church is undeservedly af1 cted, and tc
after our protests against the crimes com
nitted both in Italy and other countries To
The detriment of the Church and of the
APOSTOLIC See. Bnt of late years We have
had TO witness the fresh, and ever more
violent attacks which the Church of God
various parts OF the Catholic world has to
"a endure from her bitter enemies. who have
deemed the cslamitous state of our affairs
ana the isolation from all human aid in
which We are placed, their best opportu-
nIty for assailipg the spouse of Jesus Christ
Il Venerable Brethren, We could have wished
on the present occasion to place before vonr
minds and thoughts a detailed statement
Of this dreadful and widespread persecu-
uon now raging against the Church in
many OF the countries of Europe, but in
sonaing as we DO at future opportunity
60 lay this painful description before You.
We cannot meanwhile refrain from calling
Your attention to the distresses and yexa.
Sions Of the Church in this Italy, becom
lDg daily more severe, and from EXPLAINING
20 You the dangers, every day growing
greater, which we see impending over Us
and over this Apostolic See.
iI Is now the seventh year since the in
vaders of Our civil Principally, tramplipp
under foot all laws divine and human. VIC
.ating the faith Of solemn treaties, and
deeming the calamities of an illustriona
Catholic ration their own opportunity.
seized by force and arms those Provinces
Whlch still renamed under Our dominion
sook by storm this holy city, and filed the
universal Church with grief and sorrow
a1 pam at adeed of snch great wickeduess.
Ihe false and hypocritical professions and
promises which, during those dreadful
Gays, they made to foreign Governments
about Our affairs, declaring themselves
willing to render honor and obedience to
sne Ghnrch, and they wished the power of
the Roman PontiR to be full and unfetter-
ed, could not delude Us with groundless
expectations, nor prevent Our thoroughly
compromising all the sorrows and mise |
ries that awaited Us under their domino
ZION: NO; We were fully aware of the
lmpious ceunsels that charactertjze men !
banded together in the guilty league of
revolutionary purposes, and We publicIv :
9eciared the tendency of that sacriIeeions |;
70 vasion to be not only to the overthrow of =
oor civil Principality, but also and much E
.nrown-to the easier destruction of ali tho
Ihnrch's institutions, to the downfall ofthe @
authority of the Holy See, and to the mil. d
ng down Of that power, which, as Christ's
.icar We, though unders srving, hold on !,
B9t now this work of demolition and "
ouiliDg down of all things belonging to che =.
edifice and order, NAV he -
ana TO De complete, if not to the extent of n
ne Prosecutors intent and malice, vet to ~
ne e1Ient OF most terrible ruin which they NJ
ave gone on adding to even to this day. ~
no asipgle glance at the laws and DEGREES 90
nacted and issued from the Commence
lent OF the new domination even to the ~
resent time, is sufficient to show Us that a u
Ugly ana gradually are taken away day No
Gay one after another of the means and ~
'curities of which We stand in absolnte ~
seq IN order duly to rule and govern the ~
.tnoiic Church. Thus, for example. TIE lin
lcKedness which has been perpetuated in nv
suppression of the Religious Orders has soT
Jurlously despoiled Us of efficient and III,
eful helpers whose assistance was abso- On,
1eiy necessary to Us in the transaction Ian
the business of the Ecclesiastical Con- wb
egatloDs and in the discharge of many tho
partments of Our Ministry. At che same the
n o GnaE suppression has destroyed here SOD
our City many homes, in which Reli eli
'ue men from foreign nations found hos NH
aHGy, who at stated times were accus- An,
neo to resort to this Metropolis to len,
engthen tteir eouls, to give an account onr
'neir ministry. The same suppression wei
also cruelty torn up by the roots and
ny useful and prolific plants, which car Stu Stu
= INTO al! regions of the earth the truits dav
oenediction and peace. And the same Chm
,sionarI HnI,"r "naC mas struck the schi
training fit and proper missionaries Of f" :
lonsly to carry the light of Gospel into set
ant and uncivilized lands, has misera- com
,ietv ca lay LAZY people OF tne saving aid decI
At injury even of that worldly civiliza. ted t%5
wnlch results from the holy teaching Wat,
.. example of Christianity. And these fatal sI
onnosaI ~ +S SS tuey are In tnemeeIves no IL
even of human society, are greatly of oe0 Il
ravated by the late regulations of the scie T
by which all associations wI';c
ls comm1D;tioS J ~ enoSTs OF heli- put {
"A asegulars of either sex are prohibited Save
81 ~ severe penalties. Having forcibly that
'e de the Religious Orders, their efforts hate
ction of tba om u E,o TO the de- placi
q "a knll