The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-20
From the Louisville Journal.
The Pcps's Power as Expocnded by the Highest
Authorities Of the Roman Catholic Church.

FROM we Louisville Journal.
The Pops's Power as Expended by the Highest
Authorities Of the Roman Catholic Church
An old book. printed in Latin, was laid upon our
table on Saturday. 1t was, as appears from the
title page published in Rome in 1888, by Lucius
Ferrar, by permission and privilege from the highest
authority controlling the publication of books in
the Papal States, and of course is an authorized
declaration Of the doctrines Of the infalible church
and its infsible head. The endorsements of il are
by "Dominicusa kicolaus, Counsellor of the Congre.
CATION Of the Sacred Index" by "Franciscus Rigo
OF the Order Of Publication Professor Of Theology
and "by Permission and Privilege OF Superiors, :"
and 'by Appreciation Of Francis Xavier, the Most
Reverend Father, Master of the Sacred Apostolic
Palace" and by Maria Mamacchi, Master of the
Order Of Publication of the Sacred Apostolic Pal
ace" We suppose that all this is quite enough to
stamp with the seal of the highest Roman Catholic
authority book published at Rome And now,
although we are somewhat rusty in our Latin, we
viii try 10 give faithful translation of a few pas
sages taken almost at random from this volume of
several hundred pages, aud, if we are at fault in
the translation, will thank our old friend Bsbop
Spaulding, or any other good Roman Catholic
scholar, to set us and the public right 1t viii be
seen that the Pope is represented to be the King
Of heaven, earth and hell, and, inasmuch as it is
asserted that he can, as King of earth, excommuni
cate earthly monarchs, and as King of heaven, ex.
communicate the angels, the inference is inevitable
that he can, as King of hell, pardon all the devils
and take them in among the saints:
Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown
as if King of heaven, earth and hell
Nay the excellence and power of the Roman
Pontiff is not only in things celestial, terrestrial
and internal, but is also over angels, of whom he
is the greater So that if it were possible that
angels could err in faith or could think contrary to
faith. they might be judged and excommunicated
by the Pope. For he is of such great dignity and
power that he makes one and the same tribunal
with Christ; SO that whatsoever the Pope does
seems to proceed from the mouth of God
Arriving, therefore, at the power of the Pope
the Pope is as God on earth, the only prince of
believers in Christ, the greatest king of all kings
holding the plenitude OF power to whom have been
entrusted, at the time, the governments of the ter
rene and celestial empires by Almighty God
Hence now the common opinion teaches that the
Pope has the power of each sword TO wit--the
spiritual and temPoEal-which jurisdiction and pow
Christ himself committed TO Peter and his sue
cessOrs, saying, al will give TO thee the keys of the
kingdom of Heaven, and whatsoever you bind upon
earth shall also be bound in Heaven, and whatso.
ever you loose upon earth shall also be loosed in
Heaven" Where the doctors observe that he did
dot say key, but keys, comprehending by this the
temporal and spiritual power, which opinion is
most extensively confirmed by the authority of the
Sacred Fathers, by the decision of the canonical
and civil law, and apostolic constitutions so that
they affirming the contrary appear almost to adhere
TO that opinion OF the heretics reprobaed by Boni
face VIII.
Whence unbeeving princes and kings can be,
by the sentence Of the Pope, deprived in certain
cases of the dominion which they have over the
faithful, and king, become a hereto, can be re.
moved from his kingdom by the Pope, and to him
the right of electng pertains if his 1.-THE heretics1
sons and near relations should also be heretics
Whence it is nothing wonderful, if to the Roman
Pontif, having the vicar of Him whose are the |
earth and its fullness, the world and all who dwell
in it, &c, unsheathed not only the spiritual but |
even the material sword, the most ample authority
and power IA just advising t has been grant
ed of breaking sceptres and of taking away crowns
which power Of plenitude the Roman Pontiffs not |
once but otentimes have used as there was need, |
most powerfully girding their sword upon their |
thigh.
The Pope is Of so great authority and power that |
he can also change, declare, interpret the Divine
laws. The Pope even do this without a Gen |
eral Council since a General Council is not above
the Pope, but the Pope is above General Council