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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 325, 11 July 1879, Page 17

Rio papers tell us candidly that at Ceara, in the month of January last, 2,948 of the inhabitants were laid low by the dread fever. Dr. von Dollinger completed his eightieth year on February 28th. He received many congratulations, and among them was a letter from the Archbishop of Munich. This letter has not been published, but some of the newspapers have had the indecency to suggest that there is by no means such a divergence between the venerable prelate and the aged professor as might be supposed. The Lenten pastoral of the Archbishop should alone be sufficient to vindicate him from such misrepresentation. He acted just like his predecessor, Archbishop Gregory, who availed himself of another similar occasion to write to Dr. von Dollinger, and exhorted him with paternal affection to return to his duty. We need not despair yet. When Hontheim was dying, the father of Febronianism, at the age of ninety years, he wm able to cay :" I die reconciled to God and the Catholic Church." God grant that it may be the same with the Provost of St, Cajetan's,