The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-03-18
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CURRENT CATHOLIC EVENTS IN
FRANCE.

SOnnENt SA U 1SLt1 EVEN = I'm
FRANCE.
ostensibly for the benefit of the local
hospital, not a single inhabitant would
bid for one of the items The real
reason was apparent, since the other
furniture belonging legitimately to the
Department received great attention
and realized good prices. But only one
lot of the Church property was
knocked down, and that went to a
Catholic agent, buying for purposes
of restoration.
Treatment Of the Dead.
The hatred of these Masonic and
Jewish rulers will not readily surren-
der even the bodies of the dead to the
spiritual mother who bore them
There was no hint of religious cere-
mony about the gorgeous funeral obse-
quies of General Brun, Minister of
War, who died so suddenly in Paris
the other day. 1t was only when his
remains were surrendered to his fam
lily that they were able to arrange for
solemn Requiem Mass, which took
place at Marmonde, where the General
was buried, while in Paris, an Able,
who had been life long friend of
the dead Minister offered Mass pri-
vately in presence of a few friends
for the repose of his soul. Even the
poor do not escape this vindictive &C
ton. A pathetic case is just recorded
of deaf mute who died at Epertignac
Carreze. He was Catholic and fire.
uuently assisted at Mass, yet as he was
buried by the parish, the Mayor insist
ed on the civil rite alone, to the in
dignation of the people. AS protest
his friends, amongst the poorest of
the parish, collected, in sous, the sum
of three francs, and offered it to the
Cure, begging him to say a Requiem
Mass for the repose of the poor mans
soul, which he did, making the occa-
sion one of great solemnity which was
attended by the whole parish, much to
the chagrin of the irreligious Mayor
From this cursory glance at la belle
France we find her very much like her
own Pantheon of Paris, representing
conflicting forces of good and evil, at
one time Christian temple dedicated
to the worship of God in the Blessed
Sacrament, at the next a temple of
Reason, her walls hung alternately
with pictures of sanity victor or of
carnal slaughter, while without broods
Robins Spirit of Meditation, seeming
to wonder what the end will be-
Portugal.
Meanwhile the Church fares little
better in Portugal from whence the
latest news is that the pastoral of the
| Bishops, commanding the people to
obey the powers that be, but condemn,
| ing the recent treatment of the re.
ligious by the civil authority, has been
| forbidden by the Government; that
priests have for the most part, how.
ever, delivered 1t to their people; and
that, in consequence, the Republicans
are thinking out some dire form OF
punishment that can be inflicted on
the Hierarchy for it's temerity. 1t is
said one Lisbon priest spoke against
the pastoral and was Immediately sus.
pended by his Bishop, with the result
that the Minister of Justice has or.
dered him to fulfill his missionary
tasks as if he were under no ecclesias
tical bann. There is much to interest
us in the situation in Portugal and
we hope to visit that delectable and
truly Catholic country next week. BY
this time the outside world has learned
the truth that it is not Portugal which
desired change of Governments OF
the pillage and deportation of the re
ligious, but handful of Lisbon poll
ticians who, like all demagogues, haG
their own selfish ends to serve an6
cared no more for their country thar
they care for their God.
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