GRAND CATHOLIC DEMONSTRATION AT BUFFALO.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 27, 1 November 1873, Page 12

GRAND CATHOLIC DEMONSTRATION AT BUFFALO.

There has been a grand Catholic demonstration at Buffalo. The American Catholics have no famous shrines to which, as old Chaucer says, " to gon on pilgrimages j" and as they cannot have pilgrimages to famous shrines, they adopt a way congenial to their aatiou <=> of giving vent to their enthusiasm, namely, by holding monster meetings. At the meeting at Buffalo, which was both large and hearty, resolutions -were adopted sympathising with the Holy Father, and with the religious orders so unwarrantably persecuted in Germany and Switzerland ; aud in Guatemala and Mexico, where, under governments professedly republican and Christian in form, are committed, upon priests and religions, outrages which would disgrace national institutions the most autocratic aud Pagan. The unanimity o f feeling exhibited Kiade up as the meeting was of Irish, Germans, Americans, French and English, tjpified the entire oneness of sentiment that prevails among the Catholic laity throughout the world regarding the inde-

pendenoe of the chief Pastor of the Christian flock, and the denunciations everywhere manifested of the persecution of the Church and the Religious Orders. During the evening Mathias Rohr Eao editor of the* • Daily Volksfreund,' offered thelollowing :-SrSJ3l' that our hearts go out in sympathy to our Catholic brethren in Itaj£ Germany, Switzerland and elsewhere, who are vow suffering persecution from infidel and unjust governments because of their fidelity to the cause of Christ and His Holy Church; and we do not fail to admire the heroism they exhibit (prelates, priests and people alike) under their many tribulations, and the unwarrantable assaults imposed on them, both as Catholics and as citizens, and their heroic refusal to offer up the religious orders as propitiatory victims to the spirit of State dominion." The reading of this resolution was received with great applause, whereupon Mr Rohr proceeded to address the audienoe m the German language. That Mr Rohr had touched a chord in the hearts of the large number of Catholic Germans whom he addressed,was mad* manifest. It was also resolved that a telegram expressive of the meeting's love and devotion to the Holy See and its illustrious incumbent, be seat to Rome. The meeting was a genuine and grand demonstration of love for the Holy Father and the Catholic faith