, 1880-05-16

ten: congregations Of men managing 500 or
| 600 educational institutions and 600 congrega-
tions Of women with $500 educational insti-
tutions, besides eight universities and ninety
episcopal seminaries under the control of
| the Church.
| The real cause of the anger against the
BILLS that the Jesuit colleges will have to pass
| into other religious keeping. at one time this
| would not have excited comment, but now
| the Church in France, according to this
writer, has been UltFamontanized, and to
! touch the Jesuits is to touch the Church. He
draws the following strong picture Of the
relations between the two:
Ultramontanism is the Prince, and Jesuittsm
the Minister. Gltramontans7n Is the instltu-
ton, and Jesitism the secret machinery through
which it is spread. worked, and managed AL over
the world. Ultrunontaulsm is the very essence
Of theocracy, and Jesuitlsm IS moral bondage se
CltrAmOntlniSm looks upon Jesultlsm rs atS
most precious jewel, because It Is is e:t most
tho secret action Of Jcsuitsm among the clergy
US well as among the great body OF Catholics,
nntionni churches could never have been made
to nbdicate their autonomy into the hands OF the
Pope rs they have done.
The closing portion Of this article is de-
voted to statement Of the real situation in
France as regards the workings Of the clergy
which will create astonlshment. The Bench,
the army, the public officers, and the colleges
Of the State are filled with the tools Of the
clergy, whose energies are devoted to an at
tempt to paralyze the efforts Of the republic
an Government. An actual ring has been
formed between the clergy and nobility and
influential Catholics, which has succeeded in
getting an immense number of its proteges
in every department of the Administration,
and even in having them appointed in pref
erence to those WHO have not received cler-
.ical education. Some time since twas found
that the Chaplains Of regiments had organ
lied religious association called the Le-
gion de ST. Maurice, which was to be relied
upon III case Of coup d'etat, and when its
dissolution was ordered by the Minister of
War it reappeared under the name of
Notre Dame des So1dats, whose ostensible
object is to put the soldiers under the pro-
lection Of the most holy Virgin and to pre-
serve their faith and morals. But its MEM
bers were lately asked in most pathetic
sermon to join with the defenders Of Ia
bonnc cause against the 'atheistic' law
regulating the system of education" In the
composition Of the Bench he claims that the
Catholic ascendency has grown into public
calamity, and that " a very large number Of
Judicial decisions within the last four years,
but mainly under the publicly disgraced
Ministry Of the 10th of May, 1876, have been
perfectly scandalous,-all principles Of law,
justice, and common fairness being set aside
whenever clerical or monarchica1 ambition
and interests were at stake"
In conclusion this writet asserts what any
candid person will admit, that it is the duty |
Of republican Government to organize its
system Of public instruction III such a way
as to bring those who do not entertain the !
same religious opinions as nearly together as
possible. And he ends his paper with the |
following strong declaration Of the views Of |
the Government:
The French Government had no other views |
6na these when proposing tho present Inv to the
lied congregations MS tcuchers Of children, it is
only dispensing with the enemies of union
well as its right to do this It is only applying
the old doctrines OF the Gallican Church, which
admitted the supremacy Of the civil power over
doubt the old liberties of the Gallcan Church "
were destroyed by the invasion Of Ultramontan-
n qt
cnce Of the civil power. Those liberties also
affirmed the subordination Of the Pope to the
Council. The Bishops have been prevailed
upon to commit that great prevaricution OF
making the Church the scrrunt Of the Pope,-as
~as cIaimedby Cardinal Catetnno. but that was
10 reason why the Government should do away
With principles whose abandonment would at
3ace allow the Papacy to become al actual the
,cracy. The Bishops like Esau, have sold their
'irthr1ght. Governments will not initiate them,
'Yt will prove more faithful TO their duties.
fThe statements OF this writer present the
ubject in a different light from what 1t has
appeared in heretofore. From his point Of
lew it is not so much an attack upon the
|esuits as it is a protest against Ultramon-
anism, It's violation Of law, and its interfer-
nee with the Government; and the facts and
itations which he brings forward will go far
o confirm those statements and to arouse
ympathy with the Government in its strug-
lie with Rome