THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
D u m VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
Vol. 36. No. 1602. L o n d o n , D e c em b e r 24, 1870.
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[R e g is t e r e d a t t h e G en e r a l P o st O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
»Ch ronicle of t h e W e e k : Local
Meetings for the Pope.—Sympathy for the Pope in America. — Parallel between Columbia and Rome.— Impieties ana Sufferings in Rome. Financial Perfidy.—Our Italian Guarantees.—Transfer of the Capital of Italy.—The War.—The Brave Papal Zouaves,—&c., &c. . . 797 ¡L e aders :
The Suffering of the Church and the People . . . . . 801 English Newspapers and the
Sovereign Pontiff . . . 801 'The School-Board’s System and the Church’s . . . . 802 The Roman Zouaves in France . 803 The “ French Catholic Relief
Fund” ................................... 804 Peter’s Pence. . . .804
CONTENTS.
E nglish A dm in is tr a t io n s and
C a th o l ic I n t e r e s t s : XVIII— The Union, and how it was Resisted. T h e A n g l ic a n M o v em e n t : Cape
Town v. Canterbury R ev iew s :
Saint Clement Pope and Martyr and his Basilica in Rome Force and Matter . Wonders of European Art S h o r t N o t ic e s : Lectiones quoti
804 .805
806 807 807
dian^ de Vita, Honestate et Officiis Sacerdotum et Clericorum. —The Kingly Office of the Church. —Catholic Education.— Crackers for Christmas.— Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets.— The Men and Women of the English Reformation . . . . 808
C o rrespondence :
The Patron of the Catholic Church
—A Monument in His Honour . 809 Christmas and the Prisoner of the
Vatican ..... 809 Christmas in England—Christmas in Rome .
. . . 809
French Prisoners in Germany . 810 Appalling Distress in France . 810 Our Lady of Lourdes . . . 810 The New Education Act . .8x1 Voting Claims .... 811 School Boards .... 811 Catholics on School Boards . . 811 “ The Ceremonies of Low Mass ” . 81x R ome : Letter from our Roman
Correspondent . . . .8 12 Horrible Impieties of the Sect . 815 Honour to the Romans . . . 815
Italian Liberalism judged by itself ............................................ The Canonico Pio Mortara . Sympathy with the Pope.—Im
portant Meeting in Kensington R ecord of t h e C ouncil : Bishop
H e f e l e ............................................ D io cesan N ew s :
Westminster . Beverley Birmingham . Hexham and Newcastle Liverpool Nottingham . I r e l an d :
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent ................................... Sympathy with the Pope.— Great
Meeting at Thurles G e n e r a l N ew s ....
815 816
817 817 817 818 818 8x8 818
8x9 819
C H R O N IC L E O F T H E W E E K .
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LOCAL MEETINGS FOR THE
E have great pleasure in drawing the attention o f our readers to the meeting o f the Catholics o f the Borough o f Chelsea, o f which a report
.appears elsewhere. T h e object o f this meeting was to protest against the usurpation o f the States o f the Church, and the imprisonment o f the H o ly Father by the Governm ent o f K in g V ic to r Emmanuel, and to present memorials for their restoration to the Prime M in ister and to the Borough Members. T h e resolutions and memorials unanimouslyagreed to are vigorous and uncompromising, and have our cordial approval. T h e Catholics o f Chelsea Borough h a v e set a good example, which we hope will be followed 'by every Catholic constituency throughout the country. Aggregate meetings such as the one la te ly held in St. Jam es’s H a ll, are necessary to the cause, but it may be questioned whether a number o f local meetings held by constituencies will not have a much greater influence on the m inds o f politicians. I f in the next few weeks Mr. G ladstone should receive some hundreds o f such memorials from a ll parts o f the country, it will do more than anything else to convince this Government that the Catholics o f the United K in gdom are in earnest in this matter, and that their wishes are not to be disregarded. W ho can say how many e lections may be turned b y a well-organized Catholic vote ? A n d in regard o f this matter o f organization also we have reason to regard this Chelsea meeting as an event o f real im portance. W e understand that it had been convened and carried out by a society recently established under the name o f the Chelsea Catholic Registration Society, o f which th e Hon. W. North is Chairman. T h e society comprises th e C le rgy and principal Catholics o f all the M issions in the Borough. I t has a Central Executive Committee, and Local Committees in each Mission. I t has also Honorary A g en ts taking districts in each Mission for the purpose o f 'collecting and diffusing information. T h e principal object o f the society is, as its name implies, to keep accurate reg isters o f the Catholic ratepayers and Parliam entary voters in the Borough o f Chelsea, for use in all parish and borough 'elections. T h e society also endeavours, in these elections an d other public matters affecting Catholics, to unite the Catholics o f the Borough in a common policy, and when th is is possible, uses all the means at its disposal to carry ■ out that policy effectually. I t appears to us that an organization o f this k ind is ju st what is wanted to enable Catholics to take their proper p lace in public affairs, and to g ive them that legitim ate influence which they have hitherto b y no means adequately enjoyed. W e congratulate the Catholics o f the Borough o f Chelsea on its formation, and augur great results from its work. For their encouragement, we may
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remark that precisely the same mode o f action has been adopted in many parts o f Germany, in the United States, and in Ireland.
W e had thought that the Catholics o f Dublin and London did well at the meetings which pope in th ey have recently held. These demonstraamerica. tions, however, fall into comparative insignifi
cance in point o f numbers when compared with what are called the “ Mass M eetings ” now being held in America for the same purpose ; namely, that o f expressing sympathy for the Pope. W e have a lready chronicled the meeting in Baltim ore o f 50,000 Catholics, and we hear that nearly 20,000 non-Catholics are to be added to these as having taken part in the Procession, and the meetings in New Orleans and Cincinnati. W e may record the testim ony o f the N w Y o rk H e r a ld , one o f the ch ie f journals in the States, and certainly not open to the im putation o f bias on the Catholic side. I t says :—
Last evening (Dec. 4) will be long remembered by those who attended any one of the Roman Catholic churches of the Archiépiscopal Diocese of New York. In every church of the Diocese were assembled dense masses of people listening eagerly to the words of denunciation launched against those who have broken the consecrated barriers of Holy Rome, and have raised their hands against even the sacred and august person of the Pope himself. Not only in this Diocese did the deep heart feeling of the people show itself, but in every city of the Union, and the full despatches published below from the most important centres of the East will exhibit the unanimity and power of the Protest.
In Philadelphia upon the same day a meet-
piula- -ng wortliy o f the Catholics o f the United States DEL1HI was held in the Cathedral o f that C ity. I t had assembled upon little more than 24 hours notice. T h e N ew York H e r a ld says that nearly 30,000 men took part in the procession to the Cathedral. Some 24 Societies with bands and banners, some o f them, such as S. Peter’s, S. Patrick’s, numbering 2,500 members, marched in a most orderly manner through the streets. From the same journal we learn that none but men were admitted into the Cathedral, which is the largest church in America, and on this occasion “ contained at least 11,000 persons, while double that “ number collected outside and there remained until the “ breaking up o f the demonstration.” T h e Protest was vigorous and loyal, and was signed on behalf of the meeting.
parallel Mr. Dougherty, a member o f the American between bar, in his speech a t the Philadelphia M eeting columbia drew out the parallel between the political staand rome. tus 0f t]ie inhabitants o f Colum b ia and those o f Rome with an exactness which we commend to the consideration o f politicians in Europe
We Americans (said the American barrister) from our inmost hearts are weddod to free institutions, and therefore it is that we demand the liberty of the Pope that the Church itself may be independent. Shall it be said that we willingly submit that our Bishops and Archbishops shall henceforth owe their appointments to the subjects of an Italian