The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-08


all it's rights. The Founder of the
Church is eternal: it's children
can afford to be patient.
Continued from page ~ sa.
CATHOLIC NEWS FROM GERMANY.
kampf, and he was convinced that the
Holy Father desired to maintain the
peaceful relations which now happily
existed between Church and State,
The only matter in which he was dis
posed to ask any action was that of
priests who acted as teachers of secu-
lar subjects in the Universities. In
this the Minister was prepared to
throw a sop to the Left. He felt, he
said, that it might possibly be unsafe
to entrust the teaching af German
history to men who had taken the anti
Modernist oath. Therefore, in the fu-
ture, the Government would feel COM
PEELED to offer such professorships else
where as they fell vacant, unless
priests could be found to fill them who
were not under this oath. The Minis
ter then added, little unnecessarily,
that the Government we're not fettered
in their action by the strong position
occupied by the Centre, or Catholic
party, the members of which had lis
tened to his speech in silence. New
ertheless it is the power of that party
which holds back the Radicals from
41,oS, g,,ll
ing the same line of persecution which
has been so successful in France, in
Italy, in Portugal This was demon
strated sufficiently the very next day
when Herr Won Heydebrand, the Con-
sentative leader, issued statement
in his Organ in which he said that the
proposal to curtail the teaching powers
of Catholic professors was contrary
to the education policy adopted, and
that the Governments proper attitude
would be to wait and see if any diff
ficulties arose owing to the anti-Mod-
ernist oath before they took action.
Moreover, the same paper limited that
the Conservatives were all aware the
move was intended by the Radicals to
cause breach between thir Party and
the Centre, which they, the Conser-
vatives, did not purpose should sue.
coed.
Organization, the Key to Success.
1t is we'll to pause here and note that
the Catholics of Germany have
reached the preeminent position they
now occupy by organization, and sheer
hard work in the carrying out of their
organization. They are an example to
all of us in other parts of the world
just as France shows what the Church
may suffer because her children are
supine and do not face the fact that
they have an implacable enemy to
combat. "No one wants another Kul
turkampf," no, because Bismarck came
, out of that with defeat recorded
, against him. The Catholics who car
support five hundred papers. many oil
them dailies, who send one sole
phalanx of Catholic representatives tt
their Parliament, are to be feared by
) those who would modest them.
Modernism has no foothold among
German Catholics.
!, 1t is all very well to talk of German.
as the home of Modernism, and Bible
: criticism, and other hereses. But tn,
l priests who have actually refused t,
: take the Modernist Oath are two il
5 number, both, curious to say, from tina
: most Catholic portion of the grea
4 Empire, Bavaria. Father Weiland O
). Munich, and Father Hedwein, some
f time chaplain to the Royal Court, hay
:. ing refused their submission, are nov
:. propagating their Modernist doctrines
? but they do so in land which is s.
saturated with Catholic tradition an
. practice that they have very few cor
e verts and little effect on any bu
g strangers. It was the writer's priv
v Ilege to spend some time last year i
Q this delectable country Of mountains
and lakes, and forests, the ideal HON
of fairy and legend, but whose ever
y glen and valley are consecrated b
y something far more sacred, for the
L are like the cloisters of some vas
: cathedral of Nature where one retire
{ to mediate upon the Passion. TIL
+ wayside crucifix, the mountain chape
8 high on some ledge within it's shadow
!, a figure of Our Blessed Lord in on
e of the scenes of his Passion-scourge
! at the pillar, crowned with thorns, o
y alone in the Garden with His agony
! the statue of His Blessed Mothe
! placed in tiny oratory cut in tn
e living rock, in the very centre of
l. pass above broiling torrent, with it