THE TABLETS
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
D um VOBIS GRATULAM U R , AN IM O S ET IAM ADDIMUS U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTHIr M ANEATIS.
From the Brief oj His Holiness to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
Vol. 40. No. 1686. L o n d o n , A u g u s t 3, 1872.
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Persecution in Germany.— Its Present Phase.— Ulterior Measures.— Germany and Austria. —•Count ■ Gaetano Mastai.— The Close of the French Session. — The French Loan.— The Late Due de Guise.— Mr. Ayrton and Dr. Hooker.—The Keogh Debate. — “ Spiritual Intimidation.”— Coal in the Navy.— Diplomatic Representation at the Vatican.— Dr. Livingstone’s Letter. — Sir Henry Rawlinson’s Opinion. — The Relief Expedition.-Eleetion for the Presidency.— Manifesto of Don Carlos.— The Madrid Plot.— Catholic Unions.— Cardinal von Hohenlohe. — Two Piedmontese C i r c u l a r s ................................... 129
CONTENTS
L e a d e r s :
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Letter from the Sovereign Pontiff
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to “ The Tablet” . . . 133 The Government and the Galway
Election . . .
The Actual Moral Condition of
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F r a n c e .................................... 134 Protestant Ritualists— No. 5 . 134 The University of London . . 13b Liberalism opposed to Patriotism . 138
T h e A n g l i c a n M o v e m e n t :
The Protestant Archbishops on the
Athanasian Creed . . . 139
S h o r t N o t i c e s : Revue Catholique.
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— Etudes, Religieuses, Philosophiques, Historiques, et Littéraires. —Curious Epitaphs . . 142 P ARLIA MEN T ARY S U M M AR V 143 Rome :
Letter from Rome .... 144 Monsignor Nardi and the Bishop of Orleans .... 145 Hassoun • W • 145
R e v i e w s :
Experiences of a Diplomatist . 139 Dublin Review . . . 141 The Quarterly Review . . . 141 Spiritualism and Science . . 142
D io c e s a n N ew s : Westminster- . • • • 145
Southwark
Birmingham .
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Clifton ................................... 146 S h r ew s b u r y ...................................... 145
I r e l a n d :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent . . . . . 1 4 7
F o r e ig n N ew s :
Germany United States
C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
The Queensland Mission
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M e m o r a n d a :
Religious. - Educational - Literary.
— Scientific . . . . 148
G e n e r a l N ew s
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C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .
THE German persecution of the Church threatens to become a movement of too ojik.mai'!y wide and formidable a character not to be of the deepest interest to all Catholics. We have fortunately been able to make arrangements whereby our readers will in future be kept au courantoi the various phases -of this persecution by the pen of an eminent German, whose first communication, we hope, will reach us next week. Meanwhile, in another page will be found an extract from a private letter from Germany, revealing some of those miseries which the knife of persecution may perhaps reach and cure.
ITS PRESENT PHASE.
Rosary. As the only object of such associations is a devotional one, the decree in order to be efficacious ought to proscribe the prayers as well. Nothing but the grossest ignorance of Catholic practices can even account for the possibility of such childish and vexatious measures. At the same time a Baden paper declares that the officers are taking in hand the instruction of the soldiers as to their duties towards the Church and the Government. An officer of the 113th of the line is represented as thus addressing his men :— “ A difference has arisen “ between the clergy and the Government. Soldiers have “ nothing to do with the cause of it. But they are to take “ notice that they may very possibly hear language injurious “ to the dignity of the Empire. Such cases have already “ occurred ; persons in relations of friendship with the clergy “ have endeavoured to sow disobedience in the ranks of the “ army. Therefore, every soldier is authorized to arrest any “ individual speaking against the Government.”
A letter in the Courrier de Bruxelles states that the intended action against the Bishop of Ermeland has been po^poned until the autumn. The last project, which was to proceed against all the Bishops, and threaten them with deprivation if they •did not remove the sentences of excommunication, has had ■ cold water thrown on it by the Emperor himself. According to this account his Majesty observed to Dr. Falk that the deprivation of the Bishops, so far from putting an end to the conflict, would only introduce a fresh complication. The parochial and other clergy would consider themselves still bound towards their hierarchical superiors, and the irritation thus caused would be almost impossible to appease. Whether these considerations were suggested by the Emperor, or whether they have been allowed to influence the •decision, we cannot tell, but they were obviously true. The -difficulties in the way of this kind of persecution are in•creased by the fact that excommunication is not peculiar to the Catholic Church, and that it is inflicted by the Protestant Consistories;on women, for instance, who, having contracted marriages with Catholics, allow their children to be baptized, in accordance with the fundamental law of the land, in the religion of the father. We wish we could believe that the ■ obvious inequality involved in the proposed action of the Government in the question of the excommunications was really likely to induce them to think twice about it, but we suspect that the apparent hesitation is owing rather to their attention being concentrated on the persecution of the religious orders than to anything else. The Nuns have been already excluded from the schools, and the expulsion -of all teaching orders from the territory of the Empire is looked upon as a settled thing. The Government has even gone so far as to prohibit, under severe penalties, all scholars in the public schools from belonging to any confraternities ■ or sodalities, such as those of the Blessed Virgin, and of the Holy Family— or any that may exist under any other name. No Prussian public schoolboy is, we suppose, to be allowed io wear a scapular, or belong to the confraternity of the
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ULTERIOR MEASURES.
The Provinzial Correspondenz furnishes its own explanation of the delay in attacking the Bishops. During the next session that semiofficial organ informs us that the Reichstag and the Landtag will be called upon to vote measures which will prove that the Government does not mean to recede in its assault on the Catholic Church. The Bishops are to be forced to give an undertaking that they will obey the State in everything, and the seminaries are to be removed from their control and placed under that of the Government, which is to appoint the professors, after having caused them to pass an examination and sign certain engagements. At all examinations for orders a Government commissary is to be present, and no priests educated in Jesuit colleges or at Rome are to be permitted to exercise any functions in Germany. The State in fact is to impose its own doctrine as well as its own discipline on the clergy. In other words, ihe civil power will put forth all its strength to obtain a heretical and schismatical, clergy. It will fail, of course, but the iniquity remains.
That the anti-Cathoiic party in Austria
GE“ (“ Y should begin to agitate in favour of similar Austria, measures against the religious orders, and that the advanced German party should applaud the projected visit of the Emperor to Berlin, was only to be expected; but the question of real importance is to what extent Count Andrassy has committed himself to an imitation of Prince Bismarck’s policy. There are rumours that these statesmen arrived at an understanding last year at Gastein that Prussia would support the Magyar interest in the East of Europe on condition that Austria would assist the German Chancellor in his struggle against “ Ultramon“ tanism.” A series of articles in a Hamburgh paper is devoted to explaining the ultimate aim of this policy on the
