Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-09

by the pope, VINO can ana ousnt 10 uo
nothing The ministry should Immediately
cause new law to be passed which would
renounce the public worship associations,
leaving the churches, ETC., at the free dls-
posal Of the bishops. According to M;
Olivier, this law would dissipate the cloud
now visible on the horizon and there would
be no longer any reason to fear war OF
religion.
Advised to Accept Law.
NJ Olivier recalls that he himself former
ly advised Catholics to accept the law. how
ever bad it might be. for fear of worse and
in order to secure something better later
on. But since reading the encyclical he has
withdrawn that advice. He approves
Of the word resistance" uttered by
the pope. who combines the holiness of the
apostle with the wisdom of the politician.
The words of the pontin viii. he anticipates.
awaken Frenchmen from their lamentabie
lethargy and summon them to manly con-
duct. He further assumes that the gov
ernment will employ its soldiers. judges and
jailers against the passive resistance of the
Catholics, but they will be submerged in the
rising food of united and general resist
ance. The implacable force of things VIII
strike down the intquitous in the midst
of their saturnalia and sweep them to the
abyss.
NJ. Jaures makes a strong appeal in the
Humanite for the maintenance of all the
guarantees which have been given to the
Catholics. If, even after the encyclical, the
bishops find practical means for providing
for religious worship In accordance with the
law, all the better.
What does 1t matter to u.s." he asks, 'if
the Catholics in their public worship asso-
Citations, taking their cue from article Of
the law, included in their statutes the most
formal guarantees, as the bishops have
done? The statutes prepared by the bish-
ops assembly inspire me with no anxiety
for lay society. / should be much mope
anxious If they were more liberal. Con-
sequently, if it pleases the bishops to apply
them they are free to do So"
Efforts to Force Resistance.
In the Steele NJ. de Lanessan. ex-minister
of marine, points to the efforts now being
made by the enemies of the republic to
induce the bishops to resist the law in the
hope that nepiscopal revolt would be
followed by a popular rising against the
republic and return to some ultramontane
monarchlcal regime. He hopes. however
that the episcopate VIII take advantage Of
loophoies left them by the encyclical to
find means of reconciling themselves with
the law. 1t will. he says, be wise act on
their part, as it is clear that their church
has arrived at turning point in its his
tory. They have only to open their eyes
to the real value of the inducements
held out to them by the reactionaries in or
der to entice them into war against the
republic.
In a pamphlet on the associations cul-
tuelles in Germany Mgr FuZet, archbishop
of Rouen. after comparison of the Ger
man and French laws. says that from the
standpoint of respect of the hierarchy and
it's liberty the French law is not the worse
of the two. In support of this view he pub
fishes the answers of the eminent jurist M
Salilles, professor Of comparative legisla-
ton. by whom it is fully confirmed. The
archbishop's conclusion is that If the worse
of the two laws has been tolerated it does
not seem impossible to tolerate the other.
1t is considered certain that there will be
a general refusal to form the associations s
cultuelleS