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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Catholic World, Vol. 26, October, 1877, to March, 1878, by E. Rameur This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. Title: The Catholic World, Vol. 26, October, 1877, to March, 1878 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine Author: E. Rameur Release Date: April 26, 2019 [EBook #59364] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATHOLIC WORLD, OCT 1877-MARCH 1878 *** Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE CATHOLIC WORLD. A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. VOL. XXVI. OCTOBER, 1877, TO MARCH, 1878. NEW YORK: THE CATHOLIC PUBLICATION SOCIETY Company, 9 Barclay Street. 1878. Copyrighted by I. T. HECKER, 1878. THE NATION PRESS, 27 ROSE STREET, NEW YORK. CONTENTS. A Final Philosophy, 610 A Glance at the Indian Question, 195 A Great Bishop, 625 A Legend of Dieppe, 264 A Ramble after the Waits, 485 A Silent Courtship, 39 A Sweet Revenge, 179, 384 Among the Translators, 309, 732 Africa, Religion on the East Coast of, 411 Catholic Circles for Working-men in France, 529 Charles Lever at Home, 203 Christianity as an Historical Religion, 434, 653 Church of England, Confession in the, 590 Compostella, St. James of, 163 Confession in the Church of England, 590 Criminals and their Treatment, 56 Descent of Man, The, 496 Dieppe, A Legend of, 264 Dr. Draper and Evolution, 774 Evolution, Dr. Draper and, 774 Fortifications of Rome, Civiltà Cattolica on the, 403 Free-Religionists, The, 145 French Home Life, 759 Froude on the “Revival of Romanism,” 289 Froude on the Decline of Protestantism, 470 German Element in the United States, 372 Hedge-Poets, The Irish, 406 Holy Cave of Manresa, The, 821 How Steenwykerwold was Saved, 547 Indian Policy, our New, and Religious Liberty, 90 Indian Question, A Glance at the, 195 Industrial Crisis, Character of the Present, 122 Ireland in 1878, 721 Irish Hedge-Poets, The, 406 Isles of Lérins, The, 685 Italy, The Outlook in, 1 Jamaica, Religion in, 69 Lérins, The Isles of, 685 Lever at Home, 203 Man, The Descent of, 496 Manresa, The Holy Cave of, 821 Marguerite, 73 Marquette, Father James, Death of, and Discovery of his Remains, 267 Michael the Sombre, 599, 791 Mickey Casey’s Christmas Dinner-Party, 512 Mont St. Michel, The Last Pilgrimage to, 128 Mormonism, The Two Prophets of, 227 Mystery of the Old Organ, 356 i ii Organ, The Mystery of the Old, 356 Our New Indian Policy and Religious Liberty, 90 Papal Elections, 537, 811 Philosophy, A Final, 610 Pilgrimage, The Last, to Mont St. Michel, 128 Pius the Ninth, 846 Polemics and Irenics in Scholastic Philosophy, 337 Preachers on the Rampage, 700 Protestantism, Froude on the Decline of, 470 Protestant Episcopal Convention and Congress, 395 Religion in Jamaica, 69 Religion on the East Coast of Africa, 411 Roc Amadour, 23 Romanism, Froude on the Revival of, 289 Rome, The Civiltà Cattolica on the Fortifications of, 403 Science, The God of “Advanced,” 251 Scholastic Philosophy, Recent Polemics and Irenics in, 337 St. Hedwige, 108 St. James of Compostella, 163 The Character of the Present Industrial Crisis, 122 The God of “Advanced” Science, 251 The Home-Rule Candidate, 669, 742 The Late Dr. T. W. Marshall, 806 The Little Chapel at Monamullin, 213, 322 The Old Stone Jug, 638 The Two Prophets of Mormonism, 227 United States, The German Element in the, 372 Waits, A Ramble after the, 485 Wolf-Tower, The, 449 Working-men in France, Catholic Circles for, 529 Year of Our Lord 1877, The, 560 Footnotes 860 POETRY. A Child-Beggar, 683 After Castel-Fidardo, 789 A Little Sermon, 713 A Mountain Friend, 21 At the Church-Door, 382 Between the Years, 433 Blessed Virgin, The, 731 Brother and Sister, 652 Ceadmon the Cow-Herd, 577 Faber, To F. W., 305 In Retreat, 699 Order, 212 Outside St. Peter’s, 756 Smoke-Bound, 161 Sonnet, 405 The Bells, 88 The River’s Voice, 535 “There was no Room for Them in the Inn,” 668 To the Wood-Thrush, 250 Tota Pulchra, 355 Witch-Hazel, To the, 447 iii NEW PUBLICATIONS. A Life of Pius IX. down to the Episcopal Jubilee, 135 Almanac, Catholic Family, 572 Almanac and Treasury of Facts for the year 1878, 860 Ancient History, 432 Annals of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, 144 Antar and Zara, 431 Bible of Humanity, The, 143 Bibliotheca Symbolica Ecclesiæ Universalis, 284 Blanche Carey, 140 Catacombs, A Visit to the Roman, 859 Catechism of Christian Doctrine, 137 Catholic Parents’ Friend, The, 144 Charles Sprague, Poetical and Prose Writings of, 143 Christianity, The Beginnings of, 425 De Deo Creante, 426 Eternal Years, The, 575 Evidences of Religion, 572 God the Teacher of Mankind, 137 Grammar-School Speller and Definer, The, 139 Human Eye, Is the, Changing its form under the Influences of Modern Education? 860 Iza, 575 Jack, 143 Knowledge of Mary, 715 Letters of Rev. James Maher, D.D., 141 Life of Marie Lataste, 134 Life of Pope Pius IX., A Popular, 135 Lotos-Flowers, 573 Marie Lataste, The Life of, 134 Mary, The Knowledge of, 715 Materialism, 859 McGee’s Illustrated Weekly, 143 Mirror of True Womanhood, 719 Miscellanies, 281 Missa de Beata Maria, 139 Modern Philosophy, 428 Mongrelism, 142 Monotheism, 571 Morning Offices of Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, and Good Friday, 858 Nicholas Minturn, 575 Records of a Quiet Life, 859 Recueil de Lectures, 288 Repertorium Oratoris Sacri, 574 Roman Catacombs, A Visit to the, 858 Sadlier’s Elementary History of the U.S., 432 School Hygiene, Report upon, 136 Shakspeare’s Home, 719 iv v Specialists and Specialties in Medicine, 142 Standard Arithmetic. No. I., 287 Standard Arithmetic. No. II., 288 Sunday-School Teacher’s Manual, 575 Suppression of the Society of Jesus in the Portuguese Dominions, History of the, 429 Surly Tim, 574 The Beginnings of Christianity, 425 The Fall of Rora, 431 The Life of Pope Pius IX., 135 Vesper Hymn-Book, The New, 573 What Catholics Do Not Believe, 719 THE CATHOLIC WORLD. 1 VOL. XXVI., No. 151.—OCTOBER, 1877. THE OUTLOOK IN ITALY. I.—WHAT IS THE MEANING OF RECENT EVENTS IN ITALY? The revolutionary movement in Italy headed by Victor Emanuel has, step by step, trampled under foot every principle of religion, morality, and justice that stood between it and its goal. No pretext of the welfare of a people, even when based on truth, can ever make perfidy and treachery lawful, or furnish a covering of texture thick enough to hide from intelligent and upright minds so long and black a list of misdeeds as the Piedmontese subjugation of Southern Italy contains. “All iniquity of nations is execrable.” What is more, the catalogue of the crimes of this revolution is by no means filled, and, what is worse, the future forebodes others which, in their enormity, will cast those of its beginning into the shade. That the natural desire for unity among the Italian people might have been realized by proper and just means, had the religious, intelligent, and influential classes exerted themselves as they were in duty bound to do, there is little room for reasonable doubt. For it would be an unpleasant thing to admit that civilized society, after the action of nineteen centuries of Christianity, could find no way to satisfy a legitimate aspiration, except by a process involving the violation and subversion of those principles of justice, right, and religion for the maintenance and security of which human society is organized and established. It is indeed strange to see the Latin races, which accepted so thoroughly and for so long a period the true Christian faith, now everywhere subject to violent and revolutionary changes in their political condition. How is this to be reconciled with the fact that Christianity, in response to the primitive instincts of human nature, and in consonance with the laws which govern the whole universe, aims at, and actually brings about when followed, the greatest happiness of man upon earth while securing his perfect bliss hereafter? For so runs the promise of the divine Founder of Christianity: “A hundred-fold more in this life, and in the world to come life everlasting.” What has beguiled so large a number of the people of Italy, once so profoundly Catholic, that now they should take up the false principles of revolution, should accept a pseudo-science, and unite with secret atheistical societies? How has it come to pass that a people who poured out their blood as freely as water in testimony and defence of the Catholic religion, whose history has given innumerable examples of the highest form of Christian heroism in ages past, now follows willingly, or at least submits tamely, to the dictation of leaders who are animated with hatred to the Catholic Church, and are bent on the extermination of the Christian faith, and with it of all religion? Only those who can read in the seeds of time can tell whether such signs as these are to be interpreted as signifying the beginning of the apostasy of the Latin races from Christianity and the disintegration and ruin of Latin nations, or whether these events are to be looked upon as evidence of a latent capacity and a youthful but ill-regulated strength pointing out a transition to a new and better order of things in the future. Judging from the antecedents of the men placed in political power by recent elections in Italy, and their destructive course of legislation, the former supposition, confining our thoughts to the immediate present, appears to be the more likely. It is not, therefore, a matter of surprise that Catholics of an active faith and a deep sense of personal responsibility feel uneasy at seeing things go from bad to worse in nations which they have been accustomed to look upon as pre-eminently Catholic. Nor is it in human nature for men of energetic wills and sincere feelings of patriotism to content themselves when they see the demagogues of liberty and the conspirators of atheistical secret societies coming to the front and aiming at the destruction of all that makes a country dear to honest men. Nowhere does the Catholic Church teach that the love of one’s country is antagonistic to the love of God; nor does the light of her faith allure to an ignoble repose, or her spirit render her members slaves or cowards. Serious-minded men, before going into action, are wont to examine anew their first principles, in order to find out whether these be well grounded, clearly defined, and firm, and also whether there may not be some flaw in the deductions which they have been accustomed to draw from them. An examination of this kind is a healthy and invigorating exercise, and not to be feared when one has in his favor truth and honesty. Copyright: Rev. I. T. Hecker. 1877. 2 3 4

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