Sermons for Every Sunday in the Year, and for the Leading Holidays of Obligation. By Rev. William Gahan. With a Preface by the Right Rev. Dr. Walsh. Edited by Rev. J. O’Leary, D.D. New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co. 1875.
The reverend clergy will be content with the announcement of a new edition of these standard discourses. Their quality was long ago determined.
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CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. XXI., No. 125.—AUGUST, 1875.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by Rev. I. T. Hecker, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
THE PERSECUTION IN SWITZERLAND FROM THE REVUE GENERALE.
For seven months have we kept silence on the religious persecution in Switzerland. Not that during that interval the rage of the persecutors has become appeased; very far from it. But the spectacle they afford is so repulsive to the conscience that the pen falls from the hand in disgust whilst narrating their exploits. Nevertheless, we suppose it may be of service to give a complete although succinct history of the violence and hypocrisy of Swiss liberalism. And for that reason we renew our recital.
Up to the present time, the persecution has only raged in two dioceses, the smallest, Geneva, and the largest, Basel. But elsewhere the fire smoulders beneath the ashes, and everything goes to prove that, if the liberals should succeed in overthrowing the church in the cantons where they have inaugurated their barbarous and intolerant rule, they will continue their efforts even into the heart of the country. Already, indeed, here and there, outside of the two just-named dioceses, they reveal their intentions by isolated measures.