The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-08-05

bassador, one of the foulest and most
interruptions of the anti-clerical tribe
who for moment have the Whip-hand
of this Catholic nation. The exiled
Portuguese priests who departed in
the first days of the revolution with
many great families, thinking that the
movement was only temporary one
and who now desire to return to their
posts, having petitioned the govern
ment for permission to cross the from
tier and have been told that they may
do so under the condition that they
agree to receive without any objec-
ton the whole of the laws and dictum
of the Republic. AS this comprises
the Ubiquitous Separation Law which
places them under civil authority,
their path is barred, at least, for the
present, because gradually the tide
Of public feeling is setting more stead
lily against the new regime, and 1t
cannot be long before it, too, is hurled
in the dust That we have no safe
guards from our own Government
against any anti-Catholic measures
which may be taken, is well evidenced
from the question asked in Parlia-
ment the other day by a Catholic
member as to whether the Govern
ment had received assurances from
Portugal that the property of the Eng
lish and Irish Colleges and congrega-
tons would not be interfered with or
their privileges impugned. The reply
was That Portugal had promised to
refer any dispute which arose, at an
early date, to the Hague convention,
which, of course, means that Portugal
will, if she chooses, take and hold
these-until arbitration steps in-at
best slow method of settling differ
ences. Meanwhile, the students of
both Irish and English colleges, wait
with luggage packed, ready to leave the
country at any moment. They have
refused to truckle to the Republic by
adapting themselves in dress to it's
secular requirements, claiming their
rights as foreign citizens, and SO it
may be expected that the moment
i will not be allowed to pass by.
Our Lady of Lourdes invoked.
That magnificent Frenchman, M
Paul Feron Vrau, who has again and
again raised "La Croix" like phoenix
from the ashes to which the French
Government would reduce the gallant
ia1o II c1x Ia
tends the faith, has issued an appeal
through it's columns for prayers that
: the strained situation in Morocco may
not result in a confagration between
:. two Catholic peoples, which he rightly
says would be the signal for a Euro
pean eruption, in which the conse
quences would be terrific. He ap
peals to Our Lady of Lourdes who has
deigned to set her world shrine on the
borders of the two countries and cries
out to her to save them both will
honor from cutting each others
| threats. The great French pilgrimage
: has just made it's way to that wonder
called, carried no less than eighty
thousand pilgrims in contingents. O.
. these very large number we're sicl
persons, and they were attended b!
devoted men and women of the bes
I blood of France, who offered them
l selves as nurses and brancardiers, ant
3 were constant in their ministration II
y the poor invalids. The English pill
= grimage which starts in Septembe
: will be marked this year by the pres
!, ence of the members of a new asso
citation of ministers to the sick pill
! grims. Hitherto it has been re
: proach to the British pilgrims tina
D they have had to obtain the services
! of French and Belgian brancardier
! to carry their sick to the baths and t.
the devotions. Now the Guild Of Serv
:, ers of our Lady will undertake tn
work, and already many young mel
: have come forward to give in thei
y names.
L.