Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-13
Faithful Attend Masses.

Faris, Dec l3.--There was an i'm.
 pressive response this morning to
 the clergy's appeal to their parish.
 toners to attend the first masses cele-
 brated outside of the pale of the law.
 A correspondent of the Associated
 Press visited a dozen churches. in- cluding Notre Dame des victoires, St
 Germain d'Auxerrois. where the sig
 nal for the St Bartholomew massacre
 was given; St Koch, the Madelains and St Augustin. Everywhere. it was the same story The front gates O. the churches were closed. but the Catholics by the gray lisht of dawn were streaming through tie side por- tals. The interiors of the buildings were we'll filled. in several places there was music. but nowhere was there the slightest attempt to inter- fere with the services or create dis. turbances. Three policemen were stationed outside the porticos of the churches to prevent any pocsibie dis order, while the police oficers in plain clothes who were on duty in side simply noted the Attractions of the law. taking the names of the on ciating priests and spproximating the number of those present. with the object of making reports to the jus tices of police. Formal charges were entered wherever mass was cele- brated except at the churches of St Jean L'Evanglle and St Plaise de Charonne. at Pere La Chaise. whose parishioners. following the example of the first mentioned church. made the callcd-for application yesterda, evening to hold services under the law of 1881. The vicar of St Blaise de Charoune when induced by his parishioners to take the step. said:
 Whatever the consequences I re- sret nothing. I am Frenchmaa above everything"
 Early dispatches from the depart ments say that wherever mass was celebrated charges were drawn up and eummonses were issued. Al Chalons the Abbe Ren-udin claimed that the church bells were not rung and that no person was invited to mass and that therefore the assem- blaze had not the character of a pub lie meeting. whereupou he was com peIled by a police ofhcer 10 inscribe his protest upon the summons.
 The diocesan council here last night decided that neither the ec- clesiasticsl residences TOT the sem inaries should be abandoned except | before a show of force.
 It is officially stated that the let- l ters of Mgr Montagnini. the ex- pelled secretary of the pspal nuneis- | fure here, show that the majority of | the French bishops favored nbser,- ance of the law of 1ss. and bowed | with reluctance to the papal decree. The statement adds tha: the inviola- | bjlity of the diplomatic correspond epce of the nunciature vas serupr- Iously respected before tie rupture between the vatican and France.
 Trrpch Government Denounced.
 Boston. Dec 13-The French gov prnmeut was vigorously denounced for it< acton against the Roman Catholic church by Archbishop Co sdiutor William 1T. 0'ConneIl Of the ,iio~ese of Boston. ia c brief address before the Catholic union of Boston lest night. The occasion was a lec- rure hy Mgr John s. Vaughan of Lon ion. and In intrcdueing the lecturer. 0rConrell said in part:
 We Cathalics in Ameriez. where religious toierstion h so common and 70 widespread cannot but te over with sorrow st the condi- | Hons which exist to-day in another nsfion vhcs> name I need not men Iisn. and wbose position in church l1sirs is attracting % much attention hon thinkinx peop,e an ever the serid- The fact that this nation is nd hos been fer D many cenfgr5>x uu~h q ufruu6hn5f q f1m fhurrb s>n1y