The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-12-26
THE NTERMoUNTAN AND COLORADO CATHOLIC: DECEMBER

lister Of Worship sends his emissaries with CEN
sure or threat of suppression to the Journal that
ventures to defend the Church.
In studying the present warfare there are GER
tain questions to which we cannot close our eyes.
France. claiming to be the oldest child OF the
Church. and her children trained under the very
eyes of the church, yet alienated from the
Church. is inexplicable to all thoroughly in
structed in Catholic truths. There must be some
grave defect in the Christian education given in
seminaries and colleges. The Associated Press,
during the week. gives Premier Combes reasons
for the suppression of teaching by religious
ders The Introductory clause dwells ON the in
sutciency of the teaching in religious schools and
also on the dangerous tendencies inculcated' The
'insufficency' does not apply to mere book learn
ing, but to intoxicating the Beauties grandeur, sta
bility and perpetuity of the present form of gov
ernment The astute politician may still dread
tendency on the part of the teaching orders for the
old traditions of the French monarchy Is so, here
in consists the gravamen of what the premier des-
ignates as dangerous tendencies" Such suspic-
ions of loyalty have more than once brought
France to the brink of the precipice, and at times
drenched her soil with the blood of her most de
voted citizens Nor do any reason why
the Church should banker for the old French mon
.archy, which, through its chief leaders, enslaved
her more than the republican regime of 1S4S, The
letter of the late lamented Pontiff, Leo XIII, to
the religious congregations in France. did not
doubt their loyalty to the government which he
always encouraged. Respecting the laws and sub
Missile to the civil authorities, they bring with
them, wherever they come, civilization and peace.
: Nor is it uncommon thing to
make important contributions to science by the
help they give to researches which are being made
in such different domains the study of the diff
ferences of race and tongue, of history, the ma
ture and products of the soil, and other ques-
tons" In the same letter he says that it was on
the love and loyalty of her missionaries, together
with 'their laborious, patient and tireless ae-
tion the Protectorate of France was founded,
which government after government has always
been jealous to preserve : The inviolable
attachment of the French missionaries to their
country, the eminent services which they render
her, the great influence which they secure for her,
especially in the East-all these facts are recog-
nzed by men of the most varied opinions and
only lately solemnly proclaimed by the voice of the
highest authority" The storm the Holy Father
saw gathering has broken out, and, unfortunately,
what Voitaire sought but could not accomplish, is
now realized. Hatred of religion blasphemy, de-
cay of the family, and persecution of its chill
dren, who won for her fame in the past, are the
only legacies which the present government is be-
queathing to its children. The reasons for all this
were given by Pope Leo XIII in his letter to the
Superiors Orders in France. 1T is clear" he
hat thor-c no Il oI1+io and
tnction of religious orders as a successful maneu
in the furthering of their deep-laid designs of
driving the Catholic nations into the ways of apos
tasy and alienation from Jesus Christ and because
of that we may say in all truth: BLESSED are you
because you are hated and prosecuted. The adj
vice given was not heeded the government is mad
ly rushing on and it will descend still lower in the
scale of morality before reaction sets in or re-
vival of the old missionary spirit be rekindled
The French are tickle race, of whom it has been
truly said that there is no need for them of a
purgatory, as they are truly good or really bad