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Show REPROACH FOR FRANCE. The Pope's Letter to French Archbishop Arch-bishop on Present Evils. The Archbishop of Bourges has received re-ceived from the pope a letter conta in-ing in-ing the following very remarkable and very categorical passage: "The trouble which you depjore in the minds and acts of your 'en.w-ciU; zens assuredly causes Us keen son ow, all the more so as We are sure that i have omitted nothing in Out paternal love to preserce you from these u-We u-We are quite persuaded that many bitternesses bit-ternesses would have been sparer! Ourselves, many calamities to c,lir country avoided, if all those who in France bear the nan of Catholics had been docile and ob it to Our voice. And now, if there is ny hope of better bet-ter results, it rests only in the union of minds. The duty of enjoining and seconding this concord devolves especially es-pecially on those who edit and publish newspapers. But We confess with grief that there are still several journals jour-nals who. in an open or covert way, continue to thwart Our teachings and exhortations. It therefore remains for your France, which we ever and ar- ! d'-ntlv love, to pray to Gnri --.-f r r, her might. We hope that a!: vr meaning men will also fulfil this .i :t f of prayer, for it depends on a ,r,,r, clful God to remove the-e misfo: . which have been caused, not (, ;-.. ' the injustice ,,f adversaries. bUL ,.. . haps, even by the imprud-iu- '.; .. good." |