FRENCH RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 17, 22 January 1903, Page 1

FRENCH RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.

OPERATION OF ISE- : R' GIS t RAI TION LAW. A rooent cablegiaui stated that M. : ombo.the Crouch PremiHr, baa rtf used the antbo iaotion of 917 reliffimiH contrttioDß. Early in Docember the f •llowicg announcement was uiad» :-" On Ihe advice of the Council of Slate the proceduie insi ructions have been revised bo tbat the Gorvrnment will present to either H.jl.;.u Bills authorising all congfOjiatione, which .will be accompanied by nctcesadviipg their acceptance or rejecti n. Efich congregation willhaveaeeparKte bill, but the explanatory noticts *ill relate t'» catcgorioa of-cmgregationF. Bills rejected by one Houae ffiltn(ot^ submitted to the other. -At present ottly the male con grcgal ions, 61 in naniber, bave bt en cusideied, an* fte Government recommends the authorisation ff tbo five folio tuog (the fignroa after Ibo mothtr-house dihute ite number <>t biaDch-honsess bfcl.rging lo each orderji — Hospitallers of St. John, mother-hittse, Lyons (r») ; Cistercians of the;.Jinmaciilale Cocception, mother-hoiue, Lctths (1) ; Lratppist?, mother-house, Citeanx (23) ; Afiiuan Mißeions, mutb.er-b.OUBB, Lyons (5); White Fathers, nwtner-bouße, Maiaon Carree, Algeria (6). The Government are still hesitating as to the Hosipitallers of St Mary of the Assumption, motherhouse, Ulermont-Feirand (2), and recommend ihe rejectum of the 55 oth r congiegations who are engaged in preacbinK* instruction > f all giades from tbe seminaryjto the yr mary school (fire of tbete bave each more than 100 establishments), and gcninal clerical work. The o ders thus expelled ate both new and oH, inclading (he .Dominicans and V anciscans. -I'yrp bnglisj) orders are iocludad, theEngliiih Passion tats of Paris and^the English Ben dictine? of'Donai. The Council of State has decided that the .collective pe- . ti iou of 74 bishop's- to the Senate and iht 1 L bomber is illegal, as bsing the result of an unauthorißEd conclave, l'he Government is stated to be lesierving the ri<?bb ta conw-der ulterior .measures, wbich would bo the placarding of the dtciee throughout Ftancei or the auspeosiou of tbo salaries of the bishops, this lalter being hardly likely."