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CHARLESTON, JANUARY 2, 1830.,
U, STATES CATHOLIC MISCELE. ANY. i
ie
CTION OF. VESTRY.
mbers,to
of St, Finnba' ane in the cit of Charlton en be hi
the usual place, immodiately “after © High Mass, tomar 05
Sunday the 3rd of January. JOHN KING,’ Se ec’y.
THE JUB BILEE,
On last Christmas-day the Bishop published that the be
dulgence of the Jubilee, would commence in city 0
oie a fort
On last Sunday, the exercises com:
Woe had not received the Bishop’s letter of polation but
hope to be able to give it in our next.
The conditions for obtaining this indulgence are.
1. To repent sincerely, and to receiv e the &
Penance and the ho
2. To fe one meal on the Wednesday, Friday and
‘Satordey orone of the he weeks.
3. d the | public Prayors twice at the church or in
liew thereof, te recite the usual prayers twice, therein.
- 4, To give some alms, a according to the discretion of the
_ andividual, asto the amount and the obje
BNGYCLICAL LETTER OF THE POPE.
‘Wo e time since copied from the Irish‘ papers, an ab-
atract of this document : upon looking over the original, we
found that’ to be so grossly imperfect, that wo havo made |.
anentire translation which will bo found in our columns,
NATURE AND ORIGIN OF LAWS AND EMPIRE.
The liberality and correctness of Catholic principles in r
unfe equ ently
ples, and exhibit the strict accordance that exists between|
our principles.
ig fo tundod! Wo would’ éntreat at once our friend 1 our
ervo! Prange necd not envy her Sister ‘Nation, since
thedral Chur t! roscrved to bring forth a Cujaciuss »
| oor of the Law ely, foster euch a prejudice,
jeu ies
yente of Inot devoted to catholic principles.“ :
joly Eucharist within the prescribed time. |
BNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
cand many other Interpreters, who destitute of much
im portant rbd informatio
me rod onsiderable success to
iv lati wisdom of Rome and Con-
satinoploj in n the we dae of their highest civilization, But
er it
afforded by tho times |
VOL. IX,
frequent in every part o! of the Christian World, and continu. °
ed even when the Northern hordes in their devastating | ca-
to
whose ‘Wusteo eclipsed all
Ful, Shall
jutible? Can
holici 4 Legis!
d forget | what Catholic Pontiff’, Emperors, and Juriets,
tae done to preserve and pe’ ™pe eluate a + code of Laws, mt
(the
most learned and imparti al? Wear are-aware that it was once
ashionable, to imitate Blackstone in speaking of the Civil
the favorite theme of
e liberal a:
certain tho fact with accuracy, we might discover that most
of the eulogized principles of Common. Law are borrowed
|froni the Justinian collection. Much ‘of what is now referr-
edtothe mere judgment of the ancient Bonch, or to. some
immemorial statute, may in reality havo originated in a
principle of the civil Law received and acted on in England
as well as in the other Furopean nations, accordance
which in many points is manifested sustains this conjecture.
nature of Law and of civil euthrlty is 2 ae
defined by Gravina _ A Stato is no other tl he public
* society of many persons, established for common advan-
the
.}* tage, and for the security of lifo and property : which soci:
sey is connected by the lasting bonds of public compuctss
“ that Each individual contributes his will t
“the establishment and maintenance, of these Laws, “end
Laws,
“ philosophy: tho Tatter is denominated. Empire, oF or the
«strength and power ofall. - . ce wisdom,
rally placid and unarmed, became armed and imperious}
adversaries to glance. over, or rather study U ghly ‘the
but our liberty is not destroyed by her power, since -this
ork of Gravina on the orig in of: ‘Civil Lave, wherein n they
will find our answer and apology.
This learnod Troatise, dining alike for the accura-
cy ofthe principles, and extent of research, and for the puri-
ty and clegance of the Latin, in giving us tho history of the
civil law, shows that to Catholic Emperors and’ Catholic
Jurists the world is indebted for the origin and preservation |
of this valuable codes 80 justly and su highly lauded i the |
Editors of the Edinburgh Reviowinolato-numbor. Though
the “West for several uges suffered the Barbarian’s scourge,
and knew not the blessings of. a wise system of cavil legisla: |,
tion, yet g of the Roman
pul
lis pire established,
|** ursettod in the Prince,-or-per! of. it being
the united strenth of all;.and the law
fo comprizing the will of all, perpetually preserves in itself
“ the reason and power of each individual, Wherefore ‘he
“+ who is bound byt the La:
ni
amanner of carrying on tho overnmnont
I had to be sought after: Whence the public power eithor
“remained with tho multitude, or ascende ‘0 oss
+ common consent, it
“ If this
passed through each of the oe
power thus established by the public will for the
a
The Rev.
it has been gener:
mode, with the counsel of the neighbouritig ead or other
and the persuasion was always 8 radded to
thority. The inferior Prelates individually nj oy power, "a
nfited by the enactments of the.superior legislation, and
they are required by the Council of ‘Trent to hold an annual
Synod, wherein with the advice of their clergy they legis
late for Thus the
clearly manifested that every thing, should proceed by fixed
or Laws, adopted after mature counsel and delibera-
tion, and that asdittle as possible should be left to the ca-
price or will of individuals, even though clothed with autho-
m found impossible to
p
S
egislation
tune is certainly to be deplored: but the fact auill remains
ionable that L is the
characteristic of Church power.
—
OHIO. \
he U. S. Catholic Miscellany.
On the 7th-inst. our Right Rev. and much esteemed Pre-
Rev. Bishops of St. Louis and Ba,
it until his return,
ing was a extremely ba bad.
On his way to. Ohio, the travel-
d,and the season unusually inclement.
to one, who had pioneered the woods of Kentucky and
t 18 ago
He arrived at Zanesville on the 13th of Noyember.—
vs Mr. Miles, pastor of ‘St. John’s Church, in that
place, had prepared some of his flock for Confirmation and
d avisit from the Bishop.
pe The day following, the
Bishop celebrated Mass, and administered the sacrament of
confirmation to nine persons: he concluded the ceremony
with a pathetic exhortation to all present: So-persevere in
virtue, that the holy tenets of our faith might be known and
acknowledged as the legacy of our Redeemer, by the saintly
r|conduct of, those, who havo been so happy as to inherit ~
0 jit. .
Accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Miles, he left Zanesville on
‘the 18th, and visited the Convent and Chapel of St. Joseph,
in Perry Co This is the. residence.of somo Dominican. Pe
thers, and d
State. The situation is peculiacly calculated far_the offi-
cers sof dex evo tion—relir ed trom the noise and bustle ofiown
i by wood. The f pon-
Pontiff revive inct E h { dilig I
“to be ‘made for the Justinian Code, to regulate by it’s salu-
tury enactments the. Dominions « over which he swayed the
sceptro. mn
afew, to the detriment of the public weal, and th
“ of individuals, it reverts to the ancient state by the same
His eftorts
covery at a later period Lothaire (ann. 1130), what este¢m
was manifested of it’s excellence!
dled to study, tp interpret, and to adopt it,
the literary darkness, at the capri
fact (th
able,) that the people ‘of Pisa demanded the newly discover-
éd Code as the raward of their aid given to Lothaire by the},
Doot senttohisservice. The University’ of Bologna, where-
and th
expounded to crowds of eager disciples the
“ right. Fort yranny is destitute of the consent of all, 2
ut ere is no valid and just authorily. Wit
« when itcan be done with advantage to the itizens, it wil
what. ardour wasenkin- | + indeed be lawful lo rescue the republic trom-a lawless op;|_
To those'who | « pressor, lest tho’ wealth and safety of all be sacrificed to
the low- ju tho interests or passious f
egreo-of mental degradation, and blindly driven amidst | 75 sacred, and of divine right, inasmuch as:it has been by
ce Of a ‘I ‘rant, oF a Pontiff, “ God ingrafted on the huma:
w,orofone. For Liberty
n nature, so that to assail it is
to circumvent itis impious, to seize on jt is nefa-
* rious.” Da jure natural Gentium § 17. ct 18. Wodo
ot deem it necessary to ent er into an examination or de-
d his’ favourite theme, uninterrupted by any sound,.
‘0 | Here, among his Brethren, he remained a few days io enjoy
-|the sweets of retirement and to add {to the gratification,
whielv/his presence, created among tho worthy and Pious in-
nates of St. Joseph.
On Sunday the. 22nd, Me visited tho Chureh of the Holy"
Trinity, in Somerset. o’clock,he cer uted Mass, at=
ter which, ho confirmed on The Rev. Mr, Miles ascended
tho pulpit and delivéred an venatrwetiee wad edifying dis-
course on the occasion, toa numerous
3." On the following Sunday y, the 291, during a.
solemn Pontifical Mass ho conferred the holy order of Dea-
fence of the this celebrated writer; but
wo merely 1 publ to.them, that none may sup-
‘tained in tho recovered Pandects,, Novels, and Institutions,
offers sufficient evidence of tho esteem wherein Legislatio:
was'held by Catholic Italy: and if the enumeration of dili-
ant and I ould ah
MN} last century by Gravina
age, or country.
r. Samuel Mazzuehelli ‘of the order of St, Do-
minh and recontly fr Rome. ¢ next day he admin-
Pos
contains them was composed in the commencement of the
when Professor in the Roman Uni-
vorsity,and was dedivated to Pope Chava XL Bentimonte
tered the sacrament of confirmation to 12 personsin the
chp ie Joseph’s.
2nd of December, he left St. Joseph's for Cincin-
nati | via. Wheeling. He wi ev.
Youn
y
_vindi ges, G P a long and highly in-
teresting catalogue. ‘From the first dawn of Jurisprudence
when Irner ill dit, to it’ dij 1 der C
P ; Cu
jacacius, Italy recoived and reflected it’s light on the sur-
sounding ‘nations, who ‘wore seen a gradually. forsaking the
| civil policy is Perteely consistent with the spirit of the
be found in ai
ancient or modern, !
It is then anquestionabie ‘that the most exact and liberal]
tholic Religion. We even affirm that itis a natural: re-
Ca. | ally in that district ofthe diocess,
sult of it, since the Chores at all periods has exercised her | 0°!
ing and Miles, as far as Fairview, where the lat-
ter of these gentlemen took leave of the Bishop, to attend
the congregation of St. Dominick, and the Catholics caer
The Rev. Mr. Young at-
Wheeling. There he went on board a steam
atand’ descended the river to ‘Cincinnati 3 Where, we are
tended him to
Tate! ful Jock.
; Pp by m rule: sand laws. - She happy to sayy he arrived i ia safely on the uth, to receive the
duced to embrace the more equitable p incip] fed indeed gave to her legislati nanie of'| tho’ usand
tho salleetion of Justinian, Bologna justly vaunted her Canons, or + Rules, toderignate thei he ind ul
50, W him, the t til eo}
tain of ‘een Soronee her J
ursius,
thaa penal coersion 5 but this sult farther
Am rt sand tho satisfac-
tion or fading ‘the spiritual concerns of St, Peter’s in
had
poraries and predecessors, and obtainipg a lund « of oracular
Bartoli, Yo Italy, belongs the. glory of having produced
| tiffs unto the stake orthe Lions, the ey found ¢ means oceasi-
and
, ponany
certain regulations i to the obeorvance of the inforior Clergy
and the fai
{under Coustanting, these Legislative Assemblies became] p
minendi
reco: hei
tion. Whilst the Pega Persccutor sought her sacred | Pon |
prop
taken place, which greatly enhanced his pleasure: that
was the location of the sisters of charity in Cincinnati... He
t in the humbie and charitable daughters of
St. Vincents | the itt of that distinguished patron jiihe
eside in the midst of his people, and, pre-
'
an
paring to open an n Anton, where the htplees orphan could