GERMANY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 116, 16 July 1875, Page 15

GERMANY.

Calendar of the Gebhan Cultttrkampp. — Goetz. — A Dutch Eeligious, who was hearing confessions in the Church of Hiilme, is arrested and conducted to Cleve. — Cobienz. — Rev. Heit, a " suspended" and exiled priest, is arrestedand transported to the district of Cologne. — Aix-la-Chapelle. — The editor of: the ' G-eilenkirchet Zeitung' to 14 clays' imprisonment, for publication of the Encyclical of sth February. — Diilken. — For containing an account of the debate in the Houße of Representatives, when the Encyclical was read, this day's issue of the ' Spresher an Rheln.' is confiscated. . — Posen. — Domiciliary visit at the house of Rev. WqczyMjri, the Vicar of the Cathedral. — Dusseldorf. — Fusznagit, the Editor of the 'Dusseldorf Volksblatt' goes abroad, leaving behind him ten press prosecutions. 28, Opladen. — The 'Bote' confiscated for publishing an account of the speech of tbe Deputy Baron von Wendt, in the Landtag, when he read the Papal Encyclical. 29, Breslau. — The Prince-Bishop, Dr. Foerster, received yesterday a summons from the President of the Province, inviting him to resign his episcopal charge. — Posen. — For disobedience to the laws, 79 clergymen (of this dioce-e) are in arrest and exile. 30, Landau. — A private gentleman, Mr. Emmerling, 2 months, for offensive language against the German Emperor. ( — Hildesheim. — Pliinceke, of Klein-Lafferde, to the same penalty, for the same offence. I 31, Mayence. — Three men of ISTieder Ingelheim, to 3 months' each, for "breach of the peace." They had "invaded" the bell-tower j of the Catholic Church, and had "violently" rung the bells for a funeral. April 1, Haram. — "Wiese, a n-.erchant, who had been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for a speech he delivered at Dortmund, was acquitted on appeal. ! 2, Munich.— The appeal of Dr. Sigl against the sentence which condemned him to 10 months' imprisonment for offensive writing against Prince Bismarck is rejected by the Supreme Court. Moreover, he is additionally sentenced to a fine of 50 florins (£4 5s 6d) for frivolityPosen. — With reference to the criminal proceedings commenced against Mgr. Cybichowski, the Coadjutor-Bishop of Gnesen, for having consecrated the Holy Oils on Maundy Thursday (from which fimction the G-overnment journals were so insane as to believe for a short time that he was the mysterious Apostolic Delegate who has been looked for everywhere in vain), the ' Germania ' observes : The consecrated oil is the necessary matter of the Sacrament of Extreme Unaction. If Mgr. Cybichowski is to be condemned for the preparation of this necessary matter, the administration of the Sacrament of the Extreme Unaction must cease in the whole of the diocese of Gnesen-Posen, or Herr Falck will take steps with t'-ie view of enabling the Holy See to provide the necessary means for the administration of the Sacrament of the Catholic Church. There is no middle course. Dr. Falck will have very soon to decide as to the second alternative ; otherwise it will be proved that in Prussia, in the whole of a vast diocese, the administration of the Sacrament of the dying is forbidden by the State. In this case, however, our adversaries will be obliged to admit that there are good reasons which justify our saying that there is a direct persecution of the Catholic Church in Prussia. Police Tyranny. — At Herne, a village in Westphalia, there is no priest, and the curate (vicaire) is " suspended " (by the Civil Government.) A Catholic miner died. His wife and his brother-in-law wished to bury him without any religious service — the vicar not being " legally " capable of assisting. But the Liberal clique summoned the " Old-Catholic " priest from Dortmund, who actually came up to the gate of the cemetery escorted by the police. The widow and friends, finding resistance useless, retired, and the body was interred in the presence of the police alone.