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List of most recent chapters published for the The Catholic World novel. A total of 415 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Catholic World.Volume I.Issues 1-6.by E. Rameur.THE CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. I., NO. 1.-
The Catholic World.Volume I.Issues 1-6.by E. Rameur.THE CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. I., NO. 1.--APRIL, 1865.From Le Correspondant.THE PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES.BY E. RAMEUR.[The following article will no doubt be interesting to our readers, not
- 1 The Catholic World.Volume I.Issues 1-6.by E. Rameur.THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. I., NO. 1.--APRIL, 1865.From Le Correspondant.THE PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES.BY E. RAMEUR.[The following article will no doubt be interesting to our readers, not
- 2 We often practically divide the saints into three cla.s.ses. The ancient saints, those of the primitive age of Christianity, we consider as the patrons of the universal Church, watching over its well-being and progress, but, excepting Rome, having only a
- 3 "There," said the canon to his young friend; "you did not know that, when you were invoking your holy patrons, you were standing immediately over their tomb."The young officer's emotion may be better conceived than described on di
- 4 "I, sire!" cried the chamberlain; "I did not see anything--it was the steward.""Let the steward be seized, then," said the king.But the steward protested with tears in his eyes that he had not witnessed anything of what had b
- 5 There are many such, in every form of error. In Clement's days, especially, there were many whom Neo-Platonism, the Puseyism of paganism, cast up from the ocean of unclean error upon the sh.o.r.es of the Church. Take the case of Justin Martyr: he was
- 6 "'Oh! murder, murder!" says Jem to himself; 'isn't this a purty thing, that I must be drowned to make a great character for a little spalpeen like Squire Kavanagh? Oh, then, it's I that wish I was Jem M'Gowan again! Goin
- 7 At the Fourneaux or Northern end of the tunnel--owing to increased difficulties peculiar to the locality--the perforation of the gallery was much delayed. A totally different system of mechanism for the compression of air was necessitated; and it was not
- 8 Flourens shows the error of that opinion by referring to the diversity of the nervous system. The nervous system is the foundation of the animal organism; it is the general instrument of vital functions, of sensation, and of motion. If then one archetypal
- 9 When I had reached my ninth birthday, whether it was that I took better heed of words spoken in my hearing, or else that my parents thought it was time that I should learn somewhat of the conditions of the times, and so talked more freely in my presence,
- 10 "There is in this house a chapel very neat and rich, and an ancient Catholic priest is here, who says ma.s.s most days; at the which we, with my grandmother, a.s.sist, and such of her servants as have not conformed to the times; and this good father
- 11 And so, breaking off this discourse, he walked out upon the terrace; and I withdrew to the table, where my mother was sitting, and once more conned over the last pages of _my lady's_ letter, which, when the reader hath read, he will perceive the writ
- 12 [Footnote 19: Coloss. i. 23.][Footnote 20: Eph. ii. 20.][Footnote 21: Eph. iv. 5.]The Church herself makes use of language which clearly shows that she regards faith as the deepest principle of her being. [Footnote 22]The Catechism of the Council of Trent
- 13 [Footnote 37: A few sentences rather digressive from the main topic of the article are hero omitted.--TRANSLATOR.]The high importance of authority in the system of Catholicism is well known. This fundamental principle runs a danger of being placed in a fa
- 14 "Madame and these Messieurs are English, is it not?""A pretty place," we went on to say, after owning our nationality, "and very pleasant in this hot weather after the glare of Brussels.""It is that; and I am here as oft
- 15 III.We did not see much of our friends the next day. After their early dinner, Jean came up the garden all alone, to smoke a pipe, and stretch his legs before he returned to his work. We thought his good-natured face was a little sad, in spite of his chee
- 16 "Ma pauvre Rose," said he piteously-- She gave a cry and start of terror, and turned and saw him. The poor fellow's broken heart was in his face; she could not mistake the sweet-natured anguish there. Half bewildered by his inconceivable gr
- 17 How it may be with the English settlers in New Zealand, we feel by no means certain. If the present reckoning began with some voyage made round Cape Horn, then our Monday morning is New Zealand Sunday evening; but if with some voyage made round the Cape o
- 18 The sale of the celebrated Pourtales collection at Paris has been the all-absorbing art topic abroad. The gallery, at last accounts, was daily crowded with representatives from all parts of Europe, and the prices surpa.s.sed the estimates of the experts.
- 19 From the German of Friedrich de la Motte Fouque. I vol. 12mo., pp.238. New York: James Miller.THIODOLF, THE ICELANDER. A Romance. From the German of the Baron de la Motte Fouque. 12mo., pp. 308. New York: James Miller.For a man of refined and cultivated t
- 20 The queen's innocence was affirmed on oath by herself and her whole household, after which the castellain, John Tenczynski, with twelve knights of n.o.ble blood and unsullied honor, solemnly swore to the falsehood of the accusation, and, throwing dow
- 21 "At what hour must you be on foot, reverend father?" my mother asked, as sitting down at a table by his side she filled his plate with whatever might tempt him to eat, the which he seemed little inclined to."Before dawn, good Mrs. Sherwood,
- 22 CHAPTER IV.On the Sunday morning which followed the day on which the news had reached us of the rising in Northumberland, I went, as was my wont, into my mother's dressing-room, to crave her blessing, and I asked of her if the priest who came to say
- 23 For the s.p.a.ce of an hour I walked in the garden, with so oppressive a grief at my heart as I had never before experienced. Methinks the great stillness in the air added thereunto some sort of physical disorder; for the weather was very close and heavy;
- 24 The next day Was.h.i.+ngton offered to conduct his guest to the camp of _the marquis:_ this was the appellation universally bestowed in America upon Lafayette, who commanded the advance of the army."We found his troops in order of battle, and himself
- 25 Seven bells he made, of very rare devise, With graven lilies twisted up and down; Seven bells proportionate in differing size, And full of melody from rim to crown; So that, when shaken by the wind alone, They murmured with a soft AEolian tone.These being
- 26 There was to be no correspondence whatever; no meetings, no messages.We protested and pleaded, and finally he said-- "Well, well, Guy; I always liked you, and liked your father before you. Come to us on Christmas day, and you shall find a vacant chai
- 27 I'll drink--here, give me the gla.s.s--Here's to Count Spezzato: May he die like a dog! May his carcase bring the birds and the wolves together! May his name be cursed and hated while the sun lasts! And may purgatory keep him till I pray for his
- 28 "Nay, Alexis; see, here is the door" (I heard him turn the handle)."If you lean against the door, you will fall out and be killed. Is it not simple?""But, good Conrad, I shall not lean against the door.""Oh, my sweet fox
- 29 Need I say that it was so? The count and his Blanche made their honeymoon tour in England. They spent Christmas day with Alice and myself at Mr. Morton's, and when they left, Alice and I left with them, for our new home in Florence.From The Cornhill
- 30 And thus was Eugenie's fate marked out. From afar off her heart followed him; and, partly for his amus.e.m.e.nt, partly to relieve the outpourings of her intensely-loving heart, she kept a journal, intended for Maurice's eye only. A few letters
- 31 And again, most touchingly, she says: "A letter from Felicite, which tells me nothing better about you. When will those who know more write? If they knew how a woman's heart beats, they would have more pity."Maurice recovered from these att
- 32 continued he, calling out to Roreen, who was still dancing in defiance beneath a tree, some distance off--"come here, an' you'll get your dinner, an' may folly us if you wish."Roreen knew that he might depend on the word of his br
- 33 live there till I return with a power o' gold an' dimons, and oceans o' renown an' glory!"With that he crept into the aperture, while his brothers busied themselves in drawing brambles and sticks to the spot in order to build a hu
- 34 Forgive me! 'Twas a righteous cause. Hans Euler, there's my hand!"ELEANORA L. HERVEY.{238} From All the Year Round.THE MODERN GENIUS OF THE STREAMS. Water to raise corn from the seed, to clothe the meadow with its gra.s.s, and to fill the l
- 35 {246} From The Dublin Review.CHRISTIAN ART._The History of our Lord as exemplified in Works of Art;_ with that of the Types, St. John the Baptist and other persons of the Old and New Testament. Commenced by the late Mrs. JAMESON; continued and completed b
- 36 "Thus much has been said upon this figure of our Lord, because no other representation approaches so near the ideal of his person. Time, ignorance, and violence have done their worst upon it; but it may be doubted whether it ever suggested more overp
- 37 "Oh, that was at Ma.r.s.eilles; and I came on here with Mouton. We dance," she continued in a firmer voice; "we go out with a man called Emile, who plays the organ very well, and he has another dog like Mouton,' only not at all clever:
- 38 My tale is ended, except to say that, from that evening, Mouton has been my inseparable companion. He is by no means, however, as complaisant to me as he was to his mistress; on the contrary, Mouton, like many other _nouveaux riches_, is rather a spoiled
- 39 Dante, however, was n.o.ble and Christian enough to keep his eyes open even to the faults of his own party, and he spared not even the heads of the Ghibellines, as Frederic II. and other n.o.ble and popular persons, if they seemed to him deserving of blam
- 40 We do not instruct children to abstain from vice by putting immoral books into their hands, trusting that some innate sense of propriety may prompt them thereby to see virtue in a clearer light. If disposed to criticise the technical part of this work, we
- 41 MY DEAR FRIEND,--I do not know why twelve years of silence should forbid my calling you still by the name we used both to give and to accept of old. Aristotle says indeed-- [Greek text]but he did not know the basis and the affections of a Christian friend
- 42 2. Let me next speak of the truths which the Church of England still retains. I have no pleasure in its present trials; and the anonymous writer who describes me as being "positively merry" over its disasters little knows me. If I am to speak pl
- 43 On the 6th of May, 1840, in a little hut upon the slope of that chain of mountains which separates the northern from the southern states of the American Union, died an old man who had spent his life in spreading the faith through those distant regions. A
- 44 "NEW YORK, June 20, 1841."The climate of New York is very disagreeable. It was so cold yesterday that even with a woollen coverlid I had hard work to keep warm through the night. It is not cold two days in succession. The temperature varies even
- 45 "You are very happy, Grace?" she said."I am, mother," I whispered."Ah! your life is set to music, my love," she murmured; "the old tune."III.Never was one sister so proud of another as I of Hessie. She was only seve
- 46 Never since have I tasted that vivid sense of delight in any achievement of my own. I have worked as zealously, and more successfully, but it has been with a humbler heart. And looking backward, I now believe that it was my inner happiness which haloed my
- 47 _"Madame, tout asetheure (a cette heure), yn sy (ainsi) que je me vouloys mettre o lyt (au lit), est aryce (arrive) Laval, lequel m'a aporte la sertenete (cert.i.tude) deu levemant du syege de Mesyeres."_ I presume a schoolboy would be whip
- 48 {334} Anna soon came to understand that I was her master, and she attached herself in consequence more strongly to me than to any one else, for she perfectly appreciated the service she has received. One day after a lesson, at which I had kept her until s
- 49 When the children heard this humble confession, they one by one quietly left the cla.s.s, like those in the gospel, beginning with the eldest; but Anna, even while acknowledging herself defeated, could not resist the small vengeance of giving the sister a
- 50 The first night of our journey we lay at a small inn, which was held by persons Mistress Ward was acquainted with, and by whom we were entertained in a decent chamber, looking on unto a little garden, and with as much comfort as the fas.h.i.+on of the pla
- 51 "What have you here?" Hubert asked, glancing at Mr. Fox's _Book of Martyrs_, and another which the landlady had left on the table; _A profitable New Year's Gift to all England._ "They are not mine," I answered, "nor such
- 52 "He is like to be encroached upon yet further by yon cunning Sir Christopher," Mr. Wells said; "I'll warrant Ely Place will soon be Hatton Garden.""Well, for a neighbor," answered Polly, "I'd as soon have the q
- 53 "Nan, an order is come for his grace to be forthwith removed to the Tower, and I'll warrant that was the cause he was suffered to see us yesterday. G.o.d send it prove not a final parting!""Is his grace gone?" cried the countess,
- 54 Her white wings flying--never from her foes-- She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife."Setting aside metaphors and poetry, these memoirs are certainly one of the most remarkable instances of calm self-posse
- 55 One of the most amusing and almost ludicrous instances of the Consul's ignorance in regard to religious matters took place on this occasion.He bore a bitter hatred to the Jesuits, and was constantly harping on the subject. "I am quite astounded
- 56 (TRANSLATION.) O Lord, O my G.o.d, I have hoped but in thee; Jesu, my dearest, now liberate me: In hard chains, in fierce pains, I am longing for thee: Languis.h.i.+ng, groaning and bending the knee, I adore, I implore thou wouldst liberate me!ASTLEY H. B
- 57 There was a visible change thenceforward in Robert. He became more manly in his bearing; and variable in his manner to Polly, saying even at times very sharp things to her. The sweet-tempered girl gave no provocation, and felt no resentment; but hid somet
- 58 "In the name of heaven, what is it?" gasped Robert."Why, surely, sir, the dear child's religion.""Now is it possible, Deane, that you think we would ever interfere with that? Have we ever done so by word, or look, or deed, in
- 59 From The Month.A LOST CHAPTER OF CHURCH HISTORY RECOVERED.BY JAMES SPENCER NORTHCOTE, D.D.If we set before a skilful professor of comparative anatomy a few bones dug out of the bowels of the earth, he will re-construct for us the whole form of the animal
- 60 A painting by Murillo, from the collection of the late Marquis Aguado, representing the death of Santa Clara, has been sold to the Royal Gallery of Madrid for 75,000 francs.{425} NEW PUBLICATIONS.THE CORRELATION AND CONSERVATION OF FORCES: A SERIES OF EXP
- 61 Translated from the French by the Sisters of Charity, Mount St.Vincent, KY. 12mo., pp. 535. New York: James B. Kirker.On the wall of a corridor in the convent of _Trinita del Monti_, at Rome, there is a fresco representing the Blessed Virgin, _Mater admir
- 62 The subject of the address which I am about to deliver is as follows: Events and things which have been considered legendary, or even fabulous, have been proved by further research to be historical and true.Before coming directly to the subject upon which
- 63 Attila, routed, immediately took to flight, and got clear away from his pursuers. He went through Belgium, destroying city after city, leaving nothing standing, and ma.s.sacring the people in the most barbarous way.Here comes the most difficult knot of th
- 64 First, we have the singular fact of the division of the head at all.We occasionally hear of the head of a saint being at a particular place, but seldom of a part of a head being in one place and a part in another. Here we have an unprejudiced traveller go
- 65 After breakfast, an hour or two were devoted to General Swetchine, who liked her to read to him. During the {462} last fifteen years of his life, and his death only preceded hers seven years, he had become so deaf as to enjoy general society but little; b
- 66 This easily agreed, Nessa became queen, while, as Fergus tells the tale: While in council and debate Conor daily by me sate; Modest was his mien in sooth, Beautiful the studious youth, Questioning with eager gaze, All the reasons and the ways In the which
- 67 Gone from us--dead to us--he whom we wors.h.i.+pped so!Low lies the altar we raised to his name; Madly his own hand hath shattered and laid it low-- Madly his own breath hath blasted his fame.He whose proud bosom once raged with humanity.He whose broad fo
- 68 Tell him I loved, and love for aye, That his I am though far away-- More his than on the marriage-day.Tell him thy flowers for him I twine When first the slow sad mornings s.h.i.+ne In thy dim gla.s.s; for he is mine.Tell him when evening's tearful l
- 69 "No more than Pace her fool," quoth Polly, "who, when she said, as he entered the room, 'Now we shall hear of our faults,' cried out, 'Where is the use of speaking of what all the town doth talk of?'""The fool
- 70 Those who have been accustomed to regard falconry as entirely a thing of the past, and the secret of hawk-training as utterly lost as that of Stonehenge or the Pyramids, will be surprised to hear that there are, at the present time, hawks in England of su
- 71 Deep straight gullies, worn by the winter floods, mark the sides of both mountains into compartments, the proportion and regularity of which might almost be a matter of surprise, looking like huge stripes down the white dress of Slieve-bawn, while down th
- 72 "The sorra tired, Mick a _wochal_. You know very well what I mane, an'you needn't be so sharp. I'd never be tired of the same spot.""Them's a good score of calves, Ned; G.o.d bless you an' them!" said Mick, mak
- 73 A few words now of Edward Lennon, and we can get on.He was the eldest of five in the family. They lived upon the mountain-side in the parish of Shanvilla, about two "short miles" from the Cavanas and Murdocks. His father and mother were both ali
- 74 "Certainly, certainly," ran from one to the other. It might have been remarked, however, if any one had been observing, that Winny Cavana had not spoken.Young Lennon then retired to the hall with Mrs. Moran, and was soon led in tightly blindfold
- 75 All holy martyrs, all holy confessors, All holy hermits, all holy virgins, All ye saints of G.o.d, pray for him.{518} GERONTIUS.Rouse thee, my fainting soul, and play the man; And through such waning span Of life and thought as still has to be trod, Prepa
- 76 And hark! I hear a singing; yet in sooth {522} I cannot of that music rightly say Whether I hear or touch or taste the tones.Oh what a heart-subduing melody!ANGEL. My work is done,'My task is o er, And so I come, Taking it home, For the crown is won.
- 77 ANGEL.It is because Then thou didst fear, that now thou dost not fear.Thou hast forestalled the agony, and so For thee the bitterness of death is pa.s.sed Also, because already in thy soul The judgment is begun. That day of doom, One and the same for the
- 78 "Only one poun'-ten a week, sir, and no extras; and I may say you won't find such cheap airy lodgings anywhere else in the place; not to speak of the sea-view;" and the bustling landlady threw open the door of the tiny sitting-room wit
- 79 "Ah, my lad," he said presently, "when you come to my age, you'll look back to your old college and your old friends as I do now. But what was I going to ask you? Oh, I remember. Have you seen any of the Fordes lately?"I glanced r
- 80 {549} We apply to him phrases which he has uttered of others; we believe that he must have involuntarily described himself, when he says, "Take him all in all, We shall not look upon his like again;"or that he must even consciously have given a
- 81 But still more may we say that, in all such positions as that which we have a.s.signed to Shakespeare, there has always been a culminating point to which succeeds decline--if not downfall. It is so in art.Immediately after the death of Raphael, and the di
- 82 I have spoken of genius as a gift to an individual man. I will conclude by the reflection that that man becomes himself a gift; a gift to his nation; a gift to his age; a gift to the world of all times. That same Providence which bestows greatness, majest
- 83 Hector's a.s.sault on the s.h.i.+ps in the fifteenth book is thus spiritedly rendered: "Fiercely he raged, as terrible as Mars With brandished spear; or as a raging fire 'Mid the dense thickets on the mountain side.The foam was on his lips;
- 84 History of England from the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth.By James Anthony Froude, M.A. New York: Charles Scribner & Company.The History of the Protestant Reformation, etc. By M.J. Spalding, D.D., Archbishop of Baltimore. Fourth revised edition
- 85 The king, amazed at the knowledge of the stranger, gives him a vast sum of gold, for the construction of his palace. But it was not an earthly edifice that the apostle proposed to build--it was a heavenly and spiritual edifice whose materials were alms an
- 86 Others, recognizing its poverty as a whole, have found some redeeming features. Of this number are M. Onesime Le Roy, whose patriotic admiration of the Artesian works has perhaps led him too far, and M.Douhaire, who has better controlled his enthusiasm. M
- 87 Returning to the trilogy of the Pa.s.sion, let us conclude this essay with a {598} reflection which appears to us of a nature to throw great light upon the popularity and the gigantic proportions of this "mystery." The middle age, so penetrated
- 88 "Because," she answered, "an author who sets all his wit in his epistle is like to make his book resemble a bankrupt's doublet.""How so?" asked the gentleman."In this wise," saith she, "that he sets the ve
- 89 My Lady Surrey burst into tears, and I was angered with myself that I had spoken peradventure over sharply to her who had too much trouble already; but it did make me mad to see her so beset that the faith which had been once so rooted in her, and should
- 90 "When G.o.d shall send you to those years as that it shall be fit for you to keep house with your wife (which I had rather were sooner, than that you should fall into ill company), then I would wish you to withdraw yourself into some private dwelling
- 91 The effects of a gentle stimulus we may expect to be very different, since we know that a feeble electric current stimulates the heart's action. The nature of the stimulus is always the same, no matter on what occasion it arises. It may arise from a
- 92 Or hear, at least, his awful judgment-word With personal intonation, as I now Hear thee, not see thee, angel? Hitherto All has been darkness since I left the earth; Shall I remain thus sight-bereft all through My penance-time? if so, how comes it then Tha
- 93 Glory to him, who evermore By truth and justice reigns; Who tears the soul from out its case, And burns away its stains!{636} ANGEL.They sing of thy approaching agony, Which thou so eagerly didst question of: It is the face of the incarnate G.o.d Shall sm
- 94 I go before my Judge. Ah! ... .ANGEL..... Praise to his name!The eager spirit has darted from my hold, And, with the intemperate energy of love, Flies to the dear feet of Emmanuel; But, ere it reach them, the keen sanct.i.ty, Which with its effluence, lik
- 95 [Footnote 126: _De Edificiis_, lib. i. c. i. ][Footnote 127: Pp. 152-3.][Footnote 128: A very good German version, with most valuable notes, is appended to the text of Saltzenberg's _Baudenkmale._]For the elaborate account of the present condition of
- 96 With very few exceptions, the Greek churches of the earlier period (including the older church of St. Sophia, whether as originally built by Constantine and restored by his son, or as rebuilt by Theodosius) were of that oblong form which the Greeks called
- 97 Old Murdock had never seen young Lennon dance until that night, and so far as he could judge, "he was not the man that Tom need be afraid of." He had often seen Tom's best dancing, and certainly nothing which young Lennon had exhibited ther
- 98 "Be gorra, Miss Winny, I took up two tenpenny-bits an' a fippenny.""And what will you do with all that money, Jamesy? it is nearly a month's wages.""Be gorra, my mother has it afore this, Miss Winny.""That is a
- 99 With those same words Vanish'd the cherub, and the room was dark, Save where the moonbeams made uncertain light, And where remain'd those blossoms and that fruit, For from each leaf and stem there stream'd a ray As of the morning.Down upon
- 100 And it is the Son of Man, or Christ in his human capacity, as whose body the Church is regarded. For as the head thereof the apostle designates him who was raised from the dead. The Church here enters into a profoundly intimate relation to the sacred huma