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D u m VO B IS G R A T U L AM U R , A N IM O S ET IA M ADDIM U S U T IN IN CCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTAN TER M AN E A T IS .
From the Brief of H is Holiness to T h e T a b l e t , June 4 , 1870,
Vol. 49. No. 1940. L o n d o n , J u n e 16, 1877.
P r ice 5d. B y P o st s & d
[R e g is tered a t th e G en er a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper
C h ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k :—
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Pius IX ., Poland, and its Persecutors.—The Pope and Bologna.—The Lesson o f the Pilgrimages.— The Catholic University of Paris.— The Irish at the Vatican.— The Jubilee at Munich.—The French Government and the Ultra-Royalists.— Marshal MacMahon’s Intentions.— M. Gambetta at Abbeville.— Incitement to Hostility in Germany. — Probable Course of Events in •¿he Chamber.— Torpedo Attack at Sulina.— Russian Strategy in Armenia.—The Passage o f the Danube.—The Egyptian Contingent.— The Attitude of Greece. I — The Folkestone Ritual C a s e . 737
CONTENTS.
L e a d e r s :
The Re-Opening o f the French
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Chambers .... . . •• 741 The Pope’s Jubilee . . .. 741 Austria and the Eastern Question 742 The Unity o f Christendom . . 743 D r o g h e d a .................................... 744 A r t :
The Royal Academy . . . . 745 R ev iew s :
The Société Scientifique of
B r u s s e l s .................................... 746 Lord Bacon’s Philosophy Ex
amined . . . . . . .. 747 Rise and Growth of the Anglican
Schism .................................... 747 S hort N otices :
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of
Beaconsfield . . ... . . 748
Short N otices (continued)
The Chairman’s Handbook Pope Pius IX . The Singers......................... Elementary Text Book
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748 748 748
Physics . . 748 The Annual Register for the
Year 1876 .. . . .. 748 Philiosophy of the Bible Vindi
cated .. .. .. .. 748 C orrespondence :
A Hint to Piedmont . . .. 749 The Jubilee.. .. . . . . 749 Proposed New Church at Ushaw 749 St. Benedict’s Monastery .. 750 An Appeal from Africa . . . . 750 1 P a r l ia m en t a r y S ummary . . 75 c 1 R ome :— Letter from our own Cor
respondent ........................... 753 1
R ome (continued)
Address of the Holy Family of
Limerick D io cesan N ews Westminster....................................
Birmingham.. Clifton Salford . . . . I r eland
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent . . F oreign N ews
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756 75S 75s 758
758
G e r m a n y .................................... 758 Austria . . . . . . . . 759 Belgium . . . . . . . . 759 M em oranda :—
Catholic Union .........................759 Religious . . . . .. 760 G en er a l N ews . . . . . . 761
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
PIUS IX ., POLAND, AND ITS PERSECUTORS. T
HE audience granted to the Poles is worthy of some further notice, if it were only on account of the words addressed to them by the Holy Father. But the deputation was in itself most remarkable. Early in the morning the five hundred Polish pilgrims had assisted at a Mass said by Cardinal Monaco La Valletta, in the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Peter’s, and prostrate on the floor of the Basilica raised their great national hymn of supplication for Poland, while a Galician peasant, in full Polish costume, bore the banner of the pilgrimage, representing Our Lady of Czestochova, the patroness of Poland, with the inscription, “ Regina Poloniae, “ ora pro nobis.” And when the pilgrims were assembled in the Hall of the Consistory it must have been a picturesque sight, for the great Polish nobles wore their national costume, and were resplendent with jewels, the aged Prince Jablonowski being especially conspicuous owing to his lofty stature and his dress of red silk, with agrafe, belt, and swordsheath sparkling with brilliants. The offerings were also magnificent, but his Holiness, in addressing the deputation, spoke of one particular fact which gave it a special interest, the difficulties, namely, which had been placed in its way. “ I will not mention them,” said the Pope, “ but everybody ■“ knows them,” and, in fact, the Russian Government had strictly forbidden its subjects, especially the Lithuanians, to take part in the pilgrimage. Many, however, had braved all obstacles, and had managed to escape through Austria and join the deputation. “ These difficulties,” said the Holy Father, “ are the mark and the consequence of “ the persecution. This persecution, my dearest sons, has “ to be conquered by three things, which I pray God to “ grant you : patience, firmness, and courage. Patience, “ for it in particularly necessary for you after the many 41 years which the persecution has lasted ; firmness, to resist “ the suggestions of the persecutors; and lastly, courage, “ not to fear their threats, and to suffer all things rather “ than betray your faith. There are some who say that, in “ order to put an end to the present state of things, an “ appeal to arms and a resort to force would be desirable. ,! To those also I recommend prudence. In doing what “ prudence permits do not forget the words of Our Lord to “ the Apostle who had just drawn the sword : ‘ Put up thy “ ‘ sword into its sheath.’ It is indeed by prayer, not by “ force, that we must triumph over persecutions. Pray, “ then, for the prayers of the just man call down the pro“ tection of God ; pray even for the conversion of the per“ secutors, for these prayers will be for your enemies as it “ were burning coals, which will heap upon their heads the
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“ fire of divine justice, if they are obstinate in their per“ versify of will. Yes, then they will feel the weight of “ that justice, for God is not only the God of mercies, He “ is also the terrible and inexorable judge.” Weighty words, which are at once a counsel and a warning, a counsel to the persecuted to suffer patiently, and to fight their battle, not by insurrection, but by prayer, and to the persecutors a warning such as Gregory XVI. gave to the Tsar Nicholas when he met him face to face.
Among the other audiences, one which has p o p e a n d Particulally struck us is that of the deputation b o l o g n a . from Bologna. The second city of the Pope’s ancient dominions was represented by one of its best-known names, and the Association of the Catholic Youth of Italy, which has its head-quarters at Bologna, was also there, offering a fac-simile of St. Peter’s chains in gold. So was the Seminary founded by the present Pope, with three Bishops who have issued from its walls. Bologna has been sometimes a rather turbulent city, and the recent disturbances on the occasion of the Catholic Congress caused this manifestation of fidelity and devotedness to the Holy See to stand out in stronger contrast. The same idea suggested itself to his Holiness, for he remarked, in his reply, that the sentiments expressed in the address might serve as a proof that these spots on the character of the old capital of the Legations must not be put down to the account of “ the religious city,” but only to those people “ who care “ for nothing but to despise the clergy, depreciate religion, “ and turn good laymen into ridicule. These facts,” said the Holy Father, “ your address has blotted out of the “ history of Bologna ; it is as if they had never existed.”
All these demonstrations of faithful attacho™THESi°L- ment are>as the PoPe sa*d H ‘s answer to the GRiMAGKs. address of the Sacred College, like the mira
cles to which Our Lord pointed in his answer to the messengers of John as a proof of His divinity, and the universal and spontaneous movement of Catholics towards Rome proves nothing more clearly than that Rome remains the centre of Catholicity, in spite of all the furious attempts of its enemies to break the bond which binds the Christian world together. And the joyful submission of Catholics to the teaching of the Holy See, and their unanimous protests in favour of its rights, teach, added his Holiness, this great lesson, that those are more and more to be disapproved “ who by a system of fatal concessions and com“ promises would make to error the sacrifice of half the “ truth.”
The Catholic University of Paris has not
TotiveksityC keen behindhand in manifesting its sentiments o f p a r í s . on the occasion of the Pope’s Jubilee. After sending an address, containing a declaration of
