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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 233, 19 October 1877, Page 7

Most of us have read of Catholic priests having to resort in times gone by to vaiious disguises to save themselves from persecution. It appears that in Prussia at least the necessity still exists :—: — " The Rev. Mr. Loga, of Sshweriu, who was arrested for being a priest in disguise, kept a well attended shop, and was generally believed to ba a cattle dealer. Although the whole Catholic popiilation knew who he was, the secret was kept for more than a year. National Liberal papers arc in a rage that parishes deprived of their pastors should be thus administered in the very teeth of a watchful Government. One of them says that the most zealous and self-sacrificing agitators in the cause of Ultramontanism are young priests newlyordained by foreign bishops. As those priests have not passed the requisite State examination, they cannot be appointed to ecclesiastical offices. Forty-six of them are known to be travelling about in the Province of Posen.; some are regularly administering vacant parishes in the manner of the Rev. Mr. Loga ; and others exercise functions as ordered by their superiors. All are most successfully assisted by the landed proprietors of the Province, who provide them -with food and afford them shelter and hiding-places whenever they want them. They also know how to protect them against the police by employing them as private tutors or house officers,