The Irish standard., 1910-07-23
CENSORSHIP OF
CATHOLIC NEWS
In Spain, France and Italy News is
Tempered With by the
Ministry.
nti-Catholic Movement in Spain
is Aided by International
Secret Society.
Bishops, Priests and People are
Reused to Resist Ministry
of Canalejas.

that wears CROWN" has more in.
tense meaning when applied to the
head which wears the tiara, or triple
crown Of the Papacy, says Rome
correspondent Of the Brooklyn Tablet
Since the accession of His Holiness
Plus x to the Pontifcal throne, the
powers of the world have risen up
against him in a most virulent manner.
First of all, the Eldest Daughter Of the
Church, SO far as her government was
concerned, forgetting her glorious past,
and even the common graces of polite
ness between civilized nations, out
ragged the Pontiff in his dignity and his
office in a manner unworthy of a
drunken helot. By a strange combin-
alton of circumstances the public
press Of the world, which is laudsd
as an influence for the maintenance
of justice and liberty, was mysterious !
ly silent regarding the wrongs wrought
to Catholics in France and the gross
infraction done to the rights of French
citizens. Even Catholic journals, out
side of France and Italy, have taken
comparatively little heed of the in
creasing conspiracy of socialism and
anarchy and atheism, which ovei
spread France and aims at the up
roofing of the Christian religion from
that country, and is now active in
Italy, and is overrunning Spain with
a violence that threatens to land that
country into civil war.
international Anti. CatohIie Movement.
So evident is the spirit that ami
mates the present Spanish government
in it's conduct toward the Catholics in
'Spain-for to touch the religious or
ders is to wound them in their rights
as Catholics and their liberty as citi-
zens-that it is asserted with a We
hemence that evidently comes from
knowledge that this Catholic
movement of the Spanish government
is urged forward and supported by the
International Secret Society, which
aims at the destruction of Christianity
throughout Europe.
Catholic Spain Protests.
But the whole of Catholic Spain has
risen up in strong protest against this
attempt at robbing the people of their
faith by the Decentralization and de-
Christianizing of the schools, and by
the encouragement given to anarchists,
socialists, antimiltarists and other
elements destructive to religion and to
public order. A very notable article
in the "Gaceta del Norte." after de-
scribing the ruinous 'policy-so far as
| civil order and religion are concerned
followed by Canalejas, concludes in
this plain and indisputable declaration,
which has a tone of menace in it:
"In the Parliamentary Monarchy the
King. is irresponsible. We accept the
constitutional farce. Nevertheless, the
King dominates and freely licenses his
ministers, and it is in that that his
responsibility rests. And outside OF
| it, before conscience, before history
and before God, no one can 1iberate
the King from answering for his acts
| as governor. And let him take care,
| therefore, not to SOW the wind If ne
does not desire to reap the whirlwind;
since it is known of old that the winds
of revolution are closely followed Nv
the storms of differentiation"
1t would be to name nearly every
! city and town in Spain only to mention
the places in which protests of indig-
nation have been given forth against
the projects of the minister. One
thing that rendered the people espe-
I cially wrathful is that by shady line
of action, the Geographic agencies are
! either through the connivance Of the
| government or of the International
! Anti Catholic Anarchical Clique, con-
! cealing the actual state of things from
1 the world at large. Feeble kilograms
announce the holding of meetings in
various parts of the country, when 2
whole nation is crying out against the
wrong done to its faith. In Europe