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U. STATES CATHOLIO MISCELLANY.
CHARLESTON, DECEMBER 5, 1829.
THE’ CONVENTION.
On last Sunday tho’ Rev. Joseph Stokes celebrated High-
Mass at the Cathedral, at which the Bishop and the other
priests attended. Before the blessing the Bishop, seated.at
the altar, closed the Convention. and admitted tho General
Trustees and General Treasurer to their offices.
UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
we “igornamented at the head)
€, holding a large cross between his arm
bach © of palm j in his left hands, with a dagger upon ‘bis
heart, ane oatlas ¢ upon his hea
We, Froro Ange-Dominique ‘Anca arani De Facensa, of th
rder of the Preaching Fraternity, Doctor of Divinity, In-
uisi itor-General ofthe province of Romagna, &c. express!
appointed ry, the Holy Apostolic See ta guard against the
pri avity o eBy—
eing de esirone, in obedience to the duties of our holy of-
fice, that the Mo et He ly Catholic, Faith, {without which,
cording to » Pail Litt 13 impossible to please God) sho ald
ept unsullied b: She p
with, the peat ‘of St. Dominic, the infemous patron of the A
‘VOL. IX,
substantia) portions of the Catholic religion ? ? Why are our’
n documents kept from their pages by those’ religi-
ous Editors who profess such anxiety to exhibit the spirit of
Popery to teal readers? Does not this shew that their ob-
ea fair
‘affect to instraet ? '
The London paper is the rnthoriy upon which the New
.Wo are not informed
‘depends upon that
circumstance as to tho value of ihe assertion, because it is
Hk m that some eof the Papers of that Metropolis are
give th
our first page, and the Address ‘of the Houses of the ‘Clay
ority fi
f
by
any heresy ‘preeand our jurisdiction, by au
the Holy See delegated to us, in Perfect My Nenee 2
pain or excommunication sehlensa, be esides t
and un-
the
th
where; not even
excepting some of the American rcigious jouraale. It is
well known that in London the the most unqualified false-
themactroe, they need no comment or recommendation of
ver
The Convention made the following appointments, v7z. |
_ Tue Boanp or Genera Trestess. President, Tue Bisnor
(er off.) ) Pirie, pppointed by the Bishop. The
John Barry ; electec ergy, Rev. Jahn Bermingham,
Rev. J. F. O'Neill and Rens ‘tnd 10 Byrne; elected by t
Lay- “ieee. Bartholomew Carroll James ~ MeDo:
na D. John Magrath, Thomas Cormick, Peter B. Bou-
tan and. Antonio Della Torre. Treasure
Pund, elected by joint ballot, Laurence Ryan
We trust that the exertions of the flock: will not be want-
ing on this occasion to forward the views of the Pastor. |
STATIONS OF THE CLERGY.
Tho following are the stations’ appointed for the under-
named for the yoar 183, by the Bishop, vis, Jugusia, The),
Rev. Joseph Stokes, V. F. of Georgia, Savannah, the Rev.
John Maginnis. Locust Grove, the Rev. Michael D.O" Reily.
Columbia, S. C, the Rev. J. F. O'Neil,
5
RIGHT REV. DOcTOR KELLY.
with feelin, great regrot that we announce
death orthin highly respectable p relate, who was specially
connected with our Hierarchy, by having himself at one time|
belonged to that venerable body, also by having been| w
We give some a from the Trish pa-
r of the General]...
Ities directe Py th ate
‘Veo
vereign Ponts ffs, we order,
st whate-
iia and bulls o:
Tyo
tan, or Pa,
tin any way.
mong them are enumerated t the fo jowing :
Those who hold gi mblies or F private meetings,
against the intra or the Catholic religi
T o have committed any offences or contempt to-
wards thee sacre images, -
Thos who oppose the Holy inquisition, and who havo in
y way ineulte dthe Holy Office, or any of its ministers or
underlings,
Those eh keep, or formerly kept horetical books at their
‘n_ houses, or elsewhere, or religious books unauthorized
by the oly Seo.
may be, Lo
‘oes on to specify other offenders, and a- b
hoods regarding Catholics, are perpetually - set forth.
ndon paper is then bad authority upon which to calumni-
ate achurch of nearly two hundred millions of soule, and
cighteon centre of a age.
‘ .
which hae afforded us a little mnelanaboly amusement. In
the first place we have been amused at tho n
calities of documents, yet the pr
ence,” is beyond our ken, as are th e Canons” beyond
our legal skill : the “ under jurisdiction” § is worse tha:
gon: and the pretty concord of every one “with partieulary
those” is certainly'a curious turn of the slylus curia, the sub-
tle distinction’ between’ “ those who caused to adhere” and
“th hose who make others adhere is an admirable sample of
The edict then proceeds:
_ By enumerating the above. cases, it must not be imagined |
f the Holy Office
canons, deci of the
month bas ciapsed,
the po
in other matters contained i inthe
Sovereign Pontiffs; and even after the
the game Tiability existe, and will continue, until each p
received a notice has revealed or deno punced whatev
hes within bis know ee
w
this E.
on light.
ge.
_An ds none can be absolved from the above excomrmunica- °
inquisition” is is no doubt a repetae hhrase from an Ing
sitor General: but the reminding of “ revered Professor?”
to extort their penitents” ‘fs a discovery reserved for new
The exhortation to be careless of what men will think
of i informers, upon the text of God and m:
person another page of our en
There was-a solemn Office a d High ‘Mass for the repose
of his soul in the Cathedral of St Finbar, in oar city on last
‘Tuesday, at which tho Bishop officiated.
all heretics and all suspected of tr and those guilty of,
the crim es s above enumera ted.
Let it
ing delinquents i in an uncertain manner, and i
of the Inquisition?” A sim
in the Catholic chureb i is to vonides forged,
all that
and of .course
rule of Syntax, or that
invalid.
which our late Me-
tropolitan i is mentioned on the Irish pape Th
Frenchman by birth, he was an American vitises and acted
gansclentiously in the discharge of his duties, though he,
m that fecling of duty | was obliged to differ in opinion |}
as
@ acted with mildness and chatty and
which the Hol
will
are mistaken, for such persons wi b
«
di rein iad a the
reverend Professors of the duty they are under to exhort all
their penite ents to den in all the above cases, assurin
nm our part, that the ‘most inviolable secrisy, will be
ur Vicars, &e.; a » be sides, we shall
vigor on every o
And inasmuch as the devil, in onder to, prevent the fulfil. |
t open variance with the usual style of ‘the tribunal
‘
om whence thoy
we question the suthentcty of tho above docum nt. And
yet itiscalmly put forth as exhibiting the spirit of our
Church by persons who ought to know something of a so-
ciety concerning which they undortake to-wiite,-and if they
jad been at all acquainted with its nature, must have known,
ought to have been mentioned with more respect,
. MR. O'CONNELL.
We perceive by our late Irish paper
and his brother Janes, were in imminent danger of being
which the pole was broken. and the other horse becamores-
tive;
nd uty,
d the purity ofthe Holy Faith
impress upon the minds of those who aro Se,
that, § in case they do s0, yey will be called informers; eres
exho rt all the faithfal to
Shoo
peat tho words wt se rials} in the Gospel of St
the honor of God a
an ing an encmy of God, in order to please men, |°
&e. .
on one side, and the sea ea far below on the other. Tn leaping
from the carriage, Mr. or Connelt’e head was truck and he
Nevertheless, 2s we do not wish to cause shame to per-
sons, but solely the salvation of
who are contam:
t 1
Tremaine! our, and hi
brother’s arm was fractured.—Both were recovering, and
likely to to do well.
SLABERALITY.
™; 3: 1 he
day a lotter from Mr, o Comenn the Trish Patriot, Tespect-
ing it’s abuse in one way: several of our religious Editors in
ficant of ‘cha
1S
selves I
sud
and|of Con
it Inquisition was nota religious but’a civil tribuna?,
bl as lit-
tle to do with the Cathalie religion as the ola star chamber
of Eogland has to do with the Protestant Episcopal ures
ecticut, or as the persccuting legislature of Ber:
have to do with the Presbyterians of New-York, Wen re-
peat once more that itwas
eburch
on London productions for the purpose of misrepresenta-
tion, Yet such is the Mborality of our ‘liberals!
THE PROTESTANT.
e control of the Hol 7 Office, to on them.
bei fore
J
We suppose the work which isto bear this title and which
and by doia Wf 50, 0 and aba nosing, their errors, obtain a fall
pardon, which i is graited to those w
luntar! nyt
hav nticipated, and when they hav.
conpote cowed of ‘theit fants to the Ho oly Office
Our readers have lately seen two Pastoral letters; isened
thus announced by the said Episcopal Watchman, will
clot many such: documents, a as the above: j in “ the frit
the Roman Catholic question.”
“The Protestant.”"—~A new wei okly paper with thie title,
a quarto om, is gbout to be co!
Few York, * 2 annum. i -
the United States abuse it when they claim ae sige bya Provincial Council of our Church i in a this Union, on one to ney to the ve of Roman cll bo devote fe
charity, or g ity or justi the laity & 2y, The period has arrived
racteristic of attribute illi
c
pub bigotry and narrow minds to Catholicn Weh
time back observed a growing appetite for pieces sof
the following description amongst the readers of our protes-
tant publications, We say © wo havo observed this i increase,
for F to furnish
ich their readers,
e|ed edict of the Inquisitor ‘General ‘of Nema, itis very
evident that those two letters aré genuine and authenti
ono would imagine that if wo had Popery in this Union, a d | p:
that we have, the entiro host of protestant editors com-
plain, its spirit might be more properly sought in those
Bu
those articles
the large proportion of such pieces as: the one here given
is poreptile to overy one who reads their lucubratio ions.
Cop MAN, eet at
Harford Connecticut on the Qist of November
From the New-York Observer)
SPIRIT OF POPERY.
ur readers wish to understand tho spirit of Popory, let
them read the following edict which has been recen| ntly issu-|
by tho Inquisitor general of Romayna, “expressly ee
SC
such measure of justice is
demerits fully exhibited ‘before the e bul ublic. . The ua
the
tn oe and thoroughly examined, and her
of her ‘to
al system in various parts of this country, should excite the
fronds of the Protestant religion to vigilance and a vetiv: vity.
is in w: oO}
man Catholic question “Let sue i information be funihed
peinied by | ne ° Holy Hpostolic Seo to guard agai
vity of her “ The
dist tr h h
version of Christin
by “ The Pro: t,” ina spirit of Christian candor
not to be afforded to us; we are not to be judged from o our charity,and beneficial effects willbe theresult: the cause "
own acts, but _Boropa i is tob uth will the triumph of purergligion
cuments; 1, itis to b S bI d, Tha fal], . hist will be 1
mistranlated cat thus put forward for t pur; f The following grap aCa-
‘| presentati hi: tholic cotemp y
their fellow. citizens of other religious denominetnne’ what READFUL EFFECT 0.
would they be éalled?° Would they bo called liberal, did REFO ORMATION—MOR! ALITY.
they endcavour to porsua do their adherents that Protostants The following statement should bo read with attention,
| were grosely i ignorant, and detestably malicious? 2?) Why-are| too numerou:
' | who seek to excite private and ante dissension in, by the oper
an truths, and by the t dying: Tracts, a
Missionary -y Imposture to make the Word of God cubsidieny .
those whom they .
fe rulo respecting documents .
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