THE TABLET

A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

W ITH SUPPLEMENT.

I )U M VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief o] His Holiness to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.

Vol. 43. No. 1760. L o n d o n , J a n u a r y 3, 1874.

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C hronicle of th e W e e k : —

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The Archbishop and the “ Pall Mall Gazette.’’-The Mortara Case. —The Prussian Catholics and the Empire.—Lord Russell and the Prussian Protestants.—The Persecution at Geneva.—The Persecution in the Jura.— Dr. Reinkens and M. Loyson.— Dr. Reinkens and Austria. — The Prussian Bishops.—The Press Tax in the Heirenhaus.-The Emperor William and the New Reichstag. — The “ Correspondance de Genève.— “ Civil ” Interments.— Liberalistic Intolerance.— The Virginius.— Cartagena and the Carlists. — The Ministerial Difficulties.— The Sanatorium in Madeira, &c., &c. . 1 |

CONTENTS.

L e a d e r s :

Herr Lasker and Prince von Bis­

Page marck ..... 5 Rumours of Wars .... 5 Scotland and Ireland . . . 6 O ur P rotestant Contemporaries:

The Great Question . . . 8 R eview s :

Catholicity and Pantheism .

Enfants et Meres . . . . 1 1 Manners and Costumes of the

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Ancient Irish - . . . 1 2 The “ Month” for January . .13 S hort N o t ic e s :

Millington’s Satires of Horace . 14 | The Life & Habitsof Wild Animals 15 The Catholic Sheet Almanack 15 >

C orrespondence :

PaKe

Home Rule . . . . . 1 5 Home Rule in Relation to Catholic

Interests . . . . - 1 5 The Governess and Strangers*

H o m e ................................... 15 R om e :

Letterfrom our own Correspondent 17 The New Cardinals . . . 1 9 Peter’s Pence . . . . 1 9 R ecord of German P ersecution.

&c. Fines and Imprisonment . . 19 The Bishop of Paderborn’s Sale of his Effects . . . . 1 9 . . . . 1 9 A German Minister’s Logic . . 1 9 The Holy Innocents Again . . 19 The Closing of Episcopal Semi­

naries.— A New Law of Liberty. 20

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The Election Prospects . . 20 I Shadows of Coming Events . . 20 ID io cesan N ews :

Westminster........................................ 20 Liverpool . . . . . 21 Newport and Mens via . . . 2 1 II reland :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent ........................................ 21 F oreign N ews :

France . . . . . 2 2 Russia ...... 23 M emoranda

Educational........................................ 24 General N ews . . : . 2 4 Supplement :

Cæsarism and U ltramontanism . 1 Pastoral of the Cardinal Arch­

bishop of Dublin . . . 7

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

“ the Ghibelline C tesarism ; and, secondly, the influx into “ I ta ly o f Greeks and G reek literature, and Byzantinism “ after the fall o f Constantinople. I t was this that rendered “ possible to Christian Europe the R o yal supremacies o f the “ 1 6th century.” O f course, the A rchbishop had also observed, and this statem ent equally occurs in the Tim es, that “ Caesarism is in human nature. I t is the governm ent o f “ flesh and blood, or o f blood and iron, and, though res t r a in e d for a tim e by Christianity, it has never been extinct.” Further comment on the om ission would be superfluous.

the arch- r ~ \ N E o f the most flagrant instances o f sishop and ( 1 misrepresentation by means o f p a r - ) she “ pall * tia l quotation which we have la te ly

MALL » noticed was perpetrated by the writer on gazette. ’ Csesarism and U ltram ontanism in the P a l l M a l l Gazette o f Tuesday last. T h e writer wanted to convict the A rchbishop o f Westminster o f histo rical fallacy, and this is how he d id i t :— “ T h e “ strangest points o f Archbishop M anning’s paper are those 41 passages in it which deal with matters o f history. We 41 have space only for one illustration. T h e Archbishop “ tells us that modern Caesarism owes its rise to the ‘ influx “ ‘ in to I ta ly o f G reeks and G reek literature, and Byzan“ ‘ tinism after the fall of Constantinople. I t was this “ * which rendered possible the royal supremacies o f the “ ‘ sixteenth century.’ A n d he treats the ‘ T udor legisla“ ‘ tion ’ as the most perfect example o f that w icked “ ‘ reunion o f the two powers,’ which ‘ has been follow ed “ ‘ in every country where it has taken root by civil des“ ‘ potism and by religious persecution.’ I t certainly is sur“ prising to learn that the assertion o f the legal suprem acy o f “ the kings o f England was learnt from Constantinople o f all “ places in the world. I t would be in teresting to know how “ much o f his temper H enry V I I I . derived from that “ source, or how far any such in fluence is to be traced in “ H ooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity which carries the theory “ o f the identity o f Church and State to the highest point “ to which it ever has been carried ; but setting aside a l l “ this, Constantinople was taken in 1453, and the three “ great statutes o f Mortmain, Provisors, and Praemunire, “ which not only involved but asserted the R o y a l supre“ m acy not much less v igorously than the A c ts o f H enry “ V I I I . and Elizabeth, were passed in the fourteenth “ century, and in the reigns o f Edward I I I . and R ichard “ I I . ” W ill our readers be surprised to hear that the A rchbishop did not, as the writer in the P a l l M a l l pretends to prove, confine him self to the Csesarist influences that spread over Europe after the downfall o f the Byzantin e Empire, but explicitly, primarily, and in the same sentence, signalized the im perializing Legists o f earlier tim es as another cause o f at least equal influence. W e quote the A rchbishop’s words, as published in the Times, and consequently as read, though not q u o t e d , b y the writer in the P a l l M a l l G a zette:— “ But the two chief causes o f the revival o f Ctesarism in “ Christendom are-— first, the school o f Jurists created by “ the Pandects o f Justinian and the University o f Bologna, “ fromwhichsprungthe whole theory and organization ofJ

A writer signing h im self a “ A G h ib e llin e ’’ attacks in the P a l l M a l l Gazette the A rch bishop o f W estm inster’s “ doctrine as to the

“ respective duties o f Church and S tate,” and after laying down that “ the Pope decides, first, what is a spiritual cause, “ and therefore falls under his cognizance ; secondly, what are “ the merits o f that cause,” proceeds to use a “ test whereby “ to try the force and consistency o f this awful doctrine,” “ the application made o f it in the Mortara case.” “ T h a t “ case,” continues the author o f the letter, “ established : “ first, that the Pope, as in fallible spiritual guide, had “ the right to p ronounce that an unbaptized child is “ out * o f the pale o f salvation ; secondly, that the “ Pope, as supreme ecclesiastical and c iv il ju d ge in his “ own dominions, had the right to pronounce that a child “ was law fu lly taken away from the custody o f his parents “ in order to ensure him the benefit o f b ap t ism ; thirdly, “ that the Pope, as supreme executive in his dominion, had “ the right to carry that device in to execution by detaining “ that child after baptism definitively from the society o f its “ parents, and consigning it to the care o f spiritual teachers “ o f a religion different from theirs.” W e put it to the readers o f “ A Ghibelline’s ” letter whether this is a fair account o f the case, after the fo llow ing facts have been considered. T h e young Mortara left his home entirely o f his own accord. H e was o f an age to distinguish and ju d ge for himself. H e demanded liberty to profess and practise Christianity. H e asked o f the S tate protection against those who would have deprived him o f that liberty. U nder these circum stances what is a Christian Pastor or a Christian G o vernm ent to do ? C learly to maintain the liberty o f the child who has arrived at a competent age to act on his religious convictions. A n d a lthough nearly all Europe did its best to make the young Mortara a Jew again, there is a close analogy between his case and that o f thousands o f other children, who are supported by our own Law Courts in their choice o f a religion other than that o f their parents, and in opposition to the wishes o f their natural guardians. There are p lenty o f quasi-M ortaras in our English work houses.

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