The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-02-09
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than consent TO the taking down of the crucifxrs
IN the schools, and several projects have followed
their example. In many places the inhabitants
have carried the crucfiXe~ back to the schools in
procession and nailed them to the walls Instances
of children being punished for having rosaries or
prayerbooks i'll their possession are ucreasiug and
the French papers are full Of particulars of this
sort Of persecution Throughout the country from
end to end the names Of God. Jesus Christ and the
Virgin Mary and even Of the saints have been eff
faced from all the school books and teacher who
recently opened school with the Lords PRAYER was
Immediately denounced by the Freemasons of the
town. and lost his position within twentv-four
hours for this awful crime O.; but Il teacher who
held the cruclfX III his hands for the children to
spit upon they went out Of the school was i'm
mediately promoted to higher place.
The Catholic Standard and Times gives another
and sadder instance Of how the campaign
against Christianity is being conducted in France:
THE Project of La Lozcre has demanded the
secularization of the lying-in hospital at Meude
and pending that event has decided that no infants
born at the maternity hospital shall be baptized I'M
der any pretext whatever. Even should the new
born child be in imminent danger of DEATH the
mother is forbidden to ask for its baptism. Yet
the law of separation III its first article makes this
declarations The Republic assures liberty of con
science 1t guarantees the free exercise of re-
ligion.
NJ CIemenceau, NJ BRAND and their associates
of repeating itself and take warning from the swift
retrbutipn which overlook Napoleon Bonaparte for
his treatment of Pope Plus VII, holding the zen
cradle Pontiff prisoner at FOntanebeau for five
years 1t was there that the celebrated interview
took place III which the successor of St. Peter said
to the then master of Europe: Emperor, take
care. The God of old still lives When your meas
ure is full He will break it in pieces" Twelve
years later, when himself prisoner at st. Helena,
Napoleon said to an attendant, who as a page
had been present the occasion when the Pope
had spoken, DO you remember those words of Plus
Nll-his terrible prediction" Yes, sire the
young man answered. "he said, the God of old still
lives; he will crush you to pieces, 'Ie was no
false prophet" added the fallen emperor. My
sceptre has been broken not by man but By God
Dom Gueranger thus completes the wonderful
story: "A messenger from the island of st. Helena
was one day ushered into the presence of Plus VII
The exiled Napoleon, whom he had consecrated I'm
peror in the Church OF Notre Dame and wao~e
after conduct had brought him under the ban OF
accommodation. now besought the Pontff 20 al
low him to be readmtted to those spiritual blessings
of which he had been justly deprived.
Plus VII, who had so courageously braved pub
lie opinion by giving hospitality, at Rome to the
members of the unfortunate Napoleon family, read
lily complied with the request thus made OF him;
and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was, shortly
afterward offered up III the presence of the illus
trious exile of St Helena.
But, before granting pardon. the justice of God
had required full and public expiation. He, who
had been the instrument of salvation to millions of
souls by restoring religion to France, was not 10
be LOST but he had impiously imprisoned the Sow
ereign Pontiff in the castle at Fontainbleau, and
it was in that very castle that he had afterword to
sign the dee dof his abdication For five years
he had held captive the Vicar of Christ, for five
years he himself had to endure the sufferings and
humiliation of captivity Heaven accepted the
retribution and left Mary to complete her victory.
Reconciled with the Church, and fortified by the
Holy Sacraments which prepare the Christian for
eternity, Napoleon yielded up his soul into the
hands of his Maker, the 9th day of May-the
month that is sacred to Mary"
Nav as good and ending come to the present
political foes of Pope PiuX X.
AS to what effect the loss of temporalities will
have upon the Church in France The Republique
Franchise well says
"The Church accepts poverty. She will regain
in moral prestige all she loses in material wealth.
That is one of the far-reaching consequences which
her enemies had not foreseen, and which is far
more important than all the incidents of the pres
emf conflict"