THE PERSECUTION IN GERMANY— "CONTUMACIOUS."

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 32, 6 December 1873, Page 12

THE PERSECUTION IN GERMANY— "CONTUMACIOUS."

Thb Berlin correspondent of the 'Times' says: — "The Archbishop ,of Posen having declined to defendhimself against the charge of conferring* living without Government sanction will be proceeded against ia contumacious, as German law phraseology has it. In other words, lie will be sentenced to some fine between 200 and 1,000 thalers, his absence being taken for an admission of guilt. At the same time, t\* Catholic inhabitants of Filenne, a place of 4,000 souls, about equally divided among Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, have been oflicialy cautioned that the reverend gentleman appointed by Archbishop Ledochovski is not considered as the rightful incumbent by the Government, that marriages performed by him are iu valid, that children baptized by him must be re-baptized, and that any certificates ' bearing his signature are no certificates at all. Another case of th«- ' same nature has occurred in the important town of Landsberg, i» the ' same dioceso of Posen, and in some small place in the diocese of Fulda. In both instances the 6aine steps have been taken as at Filehno."