Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-05-02

hOr, the above mentioned ao0hmaDIe anu uiicHTlS-
tian-like principles ought to be put level with
any other men who may hold and profess those
principles.
The above Declaration and Protestation was sign
ed by one thousand seven hundred and forty per-
sons including several peers, and two hundred ana
forty-one clergynen of the Catholic religion.
We come to a later day and we produce PROOF
the most undoubted, that the Catholic Church most
emphaticaly repudates the doctrine that the Pope OF
the Church could absolve men from any just and
binding obligation. The evidence we find IN letter
of Michael Doheny, addressed to Henry a; "lse'
in the New York "Honest Truth" In 1879, the
Irish Bishops were summoned before committee
of the British House of Commons Amongst them,
selves they selected the most eminent and learned OF
their body to represent them Being apprised OF the
subjects of the enquiry, they had ample time to eX
anime and weigh and duly consider them Ihen
answers are briefly cited:
Doctor Doyle il, asked
Can the Pope absove the kings subjects from
their allegiance" y. mo"
O. us it in his power to deprive the king of his
kingdom ?"
4. at is not, indeed::'
Q. "Can he by any means excuse Catholic from
his allegiance ?" ~. ,
A. "Most undoubted y not"
@. 'Is the claim that some Popes have set up to
temporal authority opposed to Scripture and trad-
ton %
The Right Rev. DR.. Curtis Archbishop of Ar
magh, in the same examination and in answer to the
same question, says:
do not Elnk IL Is very COnioi uiaOo W H. i ~
not say exactly it is opposed to but certainly he
has received no such power from Christ
Doctor Murray, Archbishop of Dublin
s'The Popes authority is wholly confined to
spiritual authority, according to the words OF our
Saviour, My kingdom is not of this world His
spiritual power does allow him to dethrone kings
or absolve their subjects from the allegiance due to
them and any attempt of that kind would consid'
or contrary to Scripture and tradition
Dr. Kelly, Archbishop of Tuan--
i. 'It never was admitted doctrine of the Cath
Ole Church that the Pope had temporal authority
outside his own domnons."
Mr.. Doheny also refers to the evidence OF the two
most eminent men who had Heretofore written on
the subject in England-Doctor Miner and Father
OLeary-and who had exposed the false pretence
that the Pope could dispense with the obligations OF
an oath He next comes to our own times and re-
fers to the important ofthe College of Maynooth
in Ireland 1t is 1--WE quote his language) "a Cath
olic institution, endowed by the ultra Protestant
Government of England, and has been now for over
half century the tceming cf religious acer-
bity. No wonder that it should, when we consider
that by London law priest was ''feon, to be ed
ucated for the priesthood 'eony," and to ofcate
a priest "high treason" How there came to be
Catholic college is explained in this way:
notwithstanding the law, priests were ordained
and mass offered, at first in caves and mountain
gorges and afterwards in out-of-the way places in
bread daylight. The priests were educated abroad
France Spain Italy, opened asylums of education
for the exed Irish Catholics, and some came home
as priests. at the risk of being led to the gaows.-
Strange things foreshadowed themselves in the lite
nature and feeling of the continent of Europe, and
England, beginning to be afraid to hang the priest
and experimenting that his French education was ia
cooinical rather Jacobite btiough Eer of provi-
ding home education for him, with view to dend-
tional:ze him. Hence the college of Maynooth-an
invention ofthe enemy" However, it by no means
answered the end. The endowment, up to 1915, was
only ESQ 00Oa year. 1t was then increased to ESQ.,
OO0 but without, as it would seem, becoming any
moro loyal Since then bgotry, biting at the wires
of its cage, which grows narrower and narrower
daily, has been nibbling at it, and Notwithstanding
all that had boon said and sworn to the contrary,
peating the pretence that the Pope claimed the de-
posing and absolving power.
tIn 1852 a committee was appointed to enquire
into the orthodoxy of the College, who have just is
sued their report. They examined the professors,
and asked them the same questions the Bishops an
swercd in 1926.
quote first from Doctor OHanon:
with regard to the first doctrine Of Gallcan Lii
berties is it not question in dispute among Roman
Catholics? 1t lis; though wemay regard the opinion
which attributes either direct indirect temporal
power to the Pope to the church as being almost
obsolete. The only writer's who have attempted to
revive it in modern times are DIR. BroWnson recent
convert to Cathocity, and editor of an American
review and the famous Lamennais, who has been
condemned by the Holy Sce for the extravaganza
and eccenricty of certain doctrines which he held
might here observe that in document addressed
from Rome by Cardinal Antoncll to the Irish Cath
Ole Prelates early 1891 it is eXprcssy Affirm
ed that the Holy See regards that man calumni
ator, VINO imputes to it the tenet, that an oath to
kings separated from the Catholic communion can
be violated or that it is lawful for the Bishop of
Rome to invade their rights and dominons' Pope
Gregory XVI, ALSO not only in his cncyclcal letter
of 1882, but in his reply to the declaration of the
Prussian government in 1898, lays down principles
which appear to me to be irreconclable with the
opinion which invests the Pope or the church with
direct or indirect temporal authority He adopts tle
doctrine of Tcrtullian and some others of the carly
fathers that no cause whatever can justify the de-
position dethronelnent of king, and that the
people should patiently endure every sort of tyranny
and oppression rather than have recourse to vio
lent and dangerous a remedy. This doctrine is as
incompatible with the deposing power of the Pope
as it is repugnant the ideas of the political writer's
of these countries"
81 close with this quotation, hoping that l have
satisfied you that in espousing cause you have
not committed yourself to the rant of men like this
Brownson, whe trade upon credulity and supersti-
tion."
This evidence should be sufficient to satisfy all
reasonable men, but we mean to clinch the nail and
to show what Catholics think and say, here ut our
iresides, UPON THE SOIL OF VIRGINIA. IN THIS ME-
view we ask attention to the following correspon-
Bishop of Richmond. His frank replies to the en-
quiries addressed to him. should satisfy all but be-
sotted and bigoted Know Nothngs, that the charge
of the danger institutions, from the temporal
power of the Pope, the widest fanccs, the most
unsubstantia dreams. No additional word of
ment can be necessary to dspel the terrible alarm
which has been conjured up by the patriotic and
piosss managers of the Secret Order and their zeal
ous co-lahorerS the Know Nothing press and ora