Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-25
AT oPPoRTuNE TIME WILL FOR
BID PRIESTS CONTINUING
SERVICES IN CHURCHES N
LEO KNEW THE FRENCH !
No One Understood the Country Better
Than the Former Pope, Says Arch
bishop Ireland in His Sunday Dis
course on the Subject.

Paris, Dec 24.-The associated
press learns from a high ecclesias-
tical source here th-t it is certain the
pope will reject the new religious law
and at an opportune time widd forbid
the Paris priests to continue services
in churches, after which they will or
ganize for private worship.
Leo XIII Understood France.
ST. Paul. Mimi. Dec. 24.-Placing'
the burden of responsibility for the
present religious crisis in France on
the shoulders of the monarchial party,i
Archbishop Ireland in his sermon at
the cathedral yesterday said that all
French Catholics should seek the wel-l
fare of the church within the ranks OF
loyal adherents of the republic.
mo one understood France better
than Leo KILL" said Archbishop Ire-
| land. ''He bade all Catholics seek
the welfare of country and of church
within the ranks of loyal adherents OF
| the republic Had Leo been LISTEN
ed to- France in all probability would
have escaped the religious persecution
of the present day Monarchial Ideas
and plottings have done dreadful In.
jury to the church in France.
Church Leaders Behind Times.
French Catholics have been unfor.
tunate in many of their leaders and
|spokesmen. These remain demeanors
of the past, partisans Of buried polit-
ical regimes. Ii the masses of the
/ people have learned any one thing, III
lis this-that France is republic,
that they are republicans.
"But the monarchists are numerous.
Echieay the old nobility. the most gem
ferrous patrons of religion, and too
many of the clergy who still read
i their politics In Bossuet and
Massillon. who judge the republican
1 form of government by the Jacobin
republic of contemporary France.
4 Here is the weakness of the CATH
4 olics of France--the intidel, the Soc
. ialist, who solicits votes. cries out,
'The republic is in peril; no republic
can must cast his vote for monarch-
list, even if that monarchist be other
; wise the best and purest Of men, and
the masses vote for the infidel or the
socialist in order that the republic
may SURVIVE, trusting to the republic
, to do in the long run what Is most
: serviceable for France and even for
:, religion itself.
: How InfideI is Elected.
"The evil goes farther. There is
an infldel or socialist candidate and
|opposed to him a republican, moderate
{ conservative, who clings to peace.
5 full, even religious, France. But he
3 is a republican; monarchists, gener.
orally we'll known Catholics, put up q
I candidate of their own. The king must
p r.ot ha forpoften. if M kinpa live
r scores of them have lived, and fidet
s ity to them is the duty Of the hour
4 What happened? The moderate repub
r lican is defeated. the infidel or social
d list is elected. That is what is
: messed in numerous instances on ev
$ cry election day.
Parties to the Conflict.
q "The conflict raging at the present
!. time between the church and the state
n in France awakens universal and pro
q found interest 1t could not be other
/. wise, were it only for the personal
3 tiles of the contestants-on the ons
. side the Catholic church, which fo
r. ages has swayed the moral and relig
n ious life of the tens of millions o
= mankind and demands. as in heavenI
l. name, the right to continue it's worl
r. through the coming ages; on the othe
Y the 'grande nation, which since tn,
S. days of Clovis and Charlemagne ha
e reveled in the title of eldest daugs
1T of that church and has held so Ion,
IS place in the vanguard Of religion an,
of of civilization"
"a