THE TABLET
A IVeekly Newspaper and Review.
Dum vobis g ra t u lam u r , an im o s et ia m addimus ut in incceptis v e st r is constanter m an eat is .
From the B r ieJ o] His Holiness to The Tablet, J u n e 4, 1870.
Voi. 37. No. 1618. London, April 13 , 1871.
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»Chronicle of the Week : The
Pope and the Deputation.—Catholic Action in the German Parliament.—Rights of Englishmen in Rome.—“ New York Herald” in Rome.—Dr. Dollinger.—The Austrian Note.—Holy Week in Paris. —The Convents.—M. Guizot on the state of France.—The Irish in America.—&c., &c. IdEADERS :
The English Deputation to the
Pope . . Modern Civilization and the
“ Hopeless Minority” Will Thiers Save France? Holding a Candle to the Devil The Case of Dr. Pichler Peter’s Pence. . The Stubbornness of Dollinger .
CONTENTS.
E nglish Administrations and
Catholic Interests :—XXXI. The Tide '1’urned.— Recapitulation.—O’Connell and the Catholic A ssociation.....................................453 The Anglican Movement :—The
Judgment in the “ Purchas” Case. 454 R eviews :
Essays, Theological and Literary. 454 The Descent of Man and Selec
tion in Relation to Sex . . 455 Zur Geschichte des Vaticanischen
C o n c i l e s .................................... 456 Short Notices :—The Order of the Consecration of a BishopElect.—The Men and Women of the English Reformation.—The Poems and Fragments of Catullus. —History of the Restoration of the Catholic Hierarchy in England.—
Lays of Killarney Lakes.tical Counsels for Holy Communion .
Correspondence :
Diocesan News :
Westminster . . . . •464
457 Southwark . . . . .464
Hexham and Newcastle
“ The Genesis of Species ” . 458 Newport and Menevia .
The Divine Cloud .
The “ Times” and the English I reland:
458 Scotland.—Western District . . 464
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• 464
Deputation to Rome The English Catholics and the
Temporal Power . . . 459 Rome : Report of the Deputation of
English and Scotch Catholics to his Holiness the Pope . . . 461 The “ Morning Post ” and the Eng
lish Deputation .... 463 The Protest of the Very Rev. F.
Letter from our Dublin Corre
spondent ..... 464 Foreign News :
S p a i n .............................................. 465 Memoranda :
Religious ; S. Alphonsus de
Liguori, Doctor of the Church. —The Tien-Tsin Massacre . 465 Educational : Higher Education in
Beckx, General of the Jesuits . 463 R ecord of the Council :—The
Bavarian Scandal.—Letter of Mgr de Scherr, Archbishop of Munich . 463
Ireland : Model Schools . . 467 Fine Arts : Fine Arts at S.
Joseph’s Missionary College . 468 General News .... 469
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE POPE AND THE ¿DEPUTATION. T
H E “ Catholic Union” has accom plished its first great act, and it has accom plished it in the face o f the whole world. An am ple number o f noblem en and gentlem en, fully representing the Catholic laity o f Great Britain, have travelled to Rom e to kneel at the feet o f the Supreme Pontiff, and to profess aloud in the midst o f the threatening European wreck o f Christian principles that they recognize in the V icar o f Jesus Christ “ the root o f Divine authority in the ■“ Church and the archetype of all ju s t civil rule.” This act o f Faith and devotion on the part o f the Catholics o f Great Britain stirred the heart o f the Great Pontiff to its depths. H e had prayed, he said, that H e might know how to reply to ’them . His inspiration corresponded precisely with the aim .and even with the very name o f the “ Catholic Union.” H e laid upon them two precepts ; first, that “ they should “ ever be united,” that their “ impulse and energy should be “ always one with the im pulse and energy which is maniK fested throughout the Catholic world,” they were to be “ united with their B ishops and their B ishops with them ,” and those who separate themselves from this union should ¡be made known in order to be brought b ack to it. Next, after union, courage is what is most needed, “ not to battle “ against Governments,” which for the most part need support for the preservation o f order and o f authority ; nor to rise to p lace in the strife o f party politics; but in the “ maintenance o f the rights of truth, the rights “ o f religion, the rights which Jesus Christ has given us.” “ Courage is necessary,” again repeated the Sovereign Pontiff to the Representatives o f the Catholics o f Great Britain, “ the courage to speak up and to defend the rights “ o f the Church.” These solemn lessons o f the V icar of O u r Divine Lord, d irected especially to the “ Catholic <“ Union,” are an epoch in the mission o f the Church to souls and to Christian society in this kingdom . The
Catholic Union” o f Great Britain may now be said to have received its charter. While all Christian principles are being dissolved o r banished, and expediency is the only guide which seem s to b e accounted supreme, the “ Catholic Union” has a work marked out for it, in which it must succeed not in its own strength, but in its union with the Catholic Church, and through its courage “ to “ speak up in maintenance o f the rights o f truth.” This “ hopeless minority,” as the T itn es has cynically called it, must be heard o f again. I t must have not only a heart, an d a head, but a voice wherewith to speak and to be heard ; for we are upon tim es when to be silent and retiring is a cowardice and a crim e.— In the page usually assigned to our Rom an letter, which has not arrived this week, will b e found a full account o f the Deputation and
New Series. Vol. V. No. 127.
an authentic report o f the Pontiff’s reply to the Address, which is also given in the same place.
CATHOLIC ACTION IN THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT.
I t is evident that the tem porary defeat experienced by the Catholic party has rather stirred than dim inished their hope o f success. The phalanx has grown all the closer by conflict, and their adversaries seem to know it. Two projects were discussed in the Parliam entary Address in reply to the speech from the throne— the one, to adopt the Emperor’s principle o f complete and final non-intervention ; the other, to hazard the brave suggestion, that the present was a time for interference. The latter p ro ject— which was Catholic, o f course— was strongly opposed by H . von Bennigsen, who was the urgent defender o f the contrary policy, and who pointed out the dangers that lay hid in the attem pt to resuscitate the (Imperial) policy o f the m iddle ages. H e conceived it to b e the duty o f Parliam ent to dissipate the fears o f those (and their number was very great, indeed,) who im agined that the German Empire was mainly revived to restore a universal monarchy. H . Reichensperger responded to this speech, in the name o f the Catholic party, and sought to prove the advantage which must flow, to the German Empire generally, from the attem pt to come to the immed iate rescue o f the illustrious Victim at Rome. The same opinion was stoutly maintained by the eloquent Bishop o f Mayence, Mgr von Ketteler, who addressed him self in particular to those who pretend that the present German Empire rests upon a basis more solid than that o f Barbarossa. “ J u s t i t i a f im d a m c n tu m r e g n o r u m ’ ’ he said ; then added, “ Now, take we good care, in deciding the point before us, “ that Government fully realize the ju s tice o f this maxim.” Follow ing the examples o f H. von Bennigsen, and o f the Bishop o f Mayence, several orators spoke loudly against the principle o f non-intervention, which the speech from the throne had approved. I t was pointed out, for example, how false was that position into which England had thrown itself, and what want o f consideration had accrued to England from this principle o f non-intervention. “ I f we “ do not wish to interfere at Rom e ,” cried one o f the orators, “ it must be in virtue o f some other principle than this o f “ non-intervention. What we are calm ly beholding is the “ overthrow o f Catholicism .” But the orator who most openly declared his sentiments was H. Windhorst. “ It is “ the vital interest o f Catholics,” he said, “ to see the “ Supreme Chief o f their Church perfectly independent. “ Now, he can only be independent if he b e Sovereign.” And then he argued that if cannon should b e u sed against an enemy to protect commercial interests, much m ore ought it to be employed to protect re lig iou s ! “ F o r us,” he affirmed, “ the rights o f the P ope are more im portant than “ mere mercantile affairs. I t is therefore we desire to go “ to Rome, to establish there the P apal sovereignty.” And