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Hierarchy ?•

full right,-by la

the proper and perfect form of episcopal government—
that is, by bishops in ordinary, having their sees and
titles in the country.

Ii we have a

,)erfect right to all this

perfect right to employ the only mean s by which to off_

He alone could grant it.
Let me, then, sum up briefly what I have proved thu

2. Catholics belong to a religion, fully tolerated, and
enjoying perfect liberty of conscience, which is episcopal
and reouires bishops for its

;overnment

There is no .law that forbids them to

bishops according to their proper and ordinary f,
4. That form is, with ordinary jurisdiction,
and titles derived from them—that is a hierarchy.
5. They were fully justified in employing the only
maan• ;it their nnwrr fn nhtnin thi. . . .

local sees

government; that is, by applying to the Holy See.
6. And they have not acted contrary to any law by
accepting the gracious concession of what they asked.
SECTION !V.—Does the appointment of a Catholic
Hierarchy trench on the prerogative of the Crown 1—
This is, indeed, a delicate question ; and yet it must be
and every reply of bishops and

very addres

clergy as.iurn. cs

...,, Luis IS nozning compared with the address to her
Majesty, signed by some hundred members of the bar,
to the effect that, by this measure, " a foreign potentate
...,, il4-4 has interfered with her Majesty's undoubted prerogative,
.. 1841
and has assumed the right of nominating archbishops and
5.5.w.147'37 bishops in these realms, and of conferring on them terri-
S.E. 154142. tonal rank and jurisdiction "
s.w. ;5643 4
w.sur 156,44

There is one point which I would beg respectfully to
I
- • suggest to the consideration of persons better versed in
law than I am.
In this document, and in many other similar ones, in-
e'suling the Premier's letter, the Pope's acts ate spoken
as real and taking uffeet. The Pope has " assumed a

right " ; he " has parcelled out the land " ; be " has
named archbishops and bishops." If, according to the
oath taken by non-Cateolics, the Pope not only ought
not to have, but really " has" not power of jurisdiction,
" spiritual or ecclesiastical," 'in these realms, it follows
that according to them the Pope's ecclesiastical acts with
regard to England are mere nullities, and are reputed to
have no existence. It is as though the Pope had not
spoken, and bad not issued any document ---

.10 act other-
wise is to recognise an efficient act of power on his part.
Then I ask those more learned in the law than myself,
can an act of a subject of her most gracious Majesty,
which by law he is perfectly competent to do, be an in-
fringement of her royal prerogative ? If not, then I trust
we may conclude, that by this new creation of Catholic
bishops that prerogative has not been violated.
No one doubts that the bishops so appointed are Ro-
man Catholic bishops, to rule over Roman Catholic flocks.
Does the Crown claim the right, under its prerogative, of
naming such bishops ?
It win he said

that no limitation of jurisdiction is made
in the Papa! document, no restriction of
Catholics ; and hence Lord John Rus,,-.
dude that there is in this brief " a
mace over the realm of Englano

s exerci

11 and others con-

and a claim to sok and
undivided sway." Every official document has its proper
form ; and had those who blame the tenor of this taken
any pains to examine those of Papal documents, they
would have found nothing new or unusual in this., Whe-

ipeapp,

son vicar apostolic or bishop
he assigns him a territorial

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