Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-30


their Lordships have never yet been Mtbdftsn
from the Review.
Indeed Mr.. Brownson tsais v. In January, 1854,
pages 100, l0I, that Sssrse were the principles
prescribed 10 him ~ his guidance when he com
menced the hsy,ew as Catholic Review" 50
again IN Vn.ober, 1854, page 6S7, he tells us that
ne ma been placed by Legitimate authority IN
the position he held !" and he denies the right OF
himself or any other Papal journalist to publish
such opinions without sanction. Says he" We
have no rightto publish single Word on religious
and ecclesiastical matters ,oithom The permission
Of our ordinary and Nth that permission,
zoe should aever publish anything Without the ssl-
pergision Of pho has authority TO teach" Nay,
further, after he had expounded the true and gem
une tenets of the Papacy, for several years
together, he sent set Of the volumes OF his Re-
view from the commencement, to be laid as an
Offering at the feet of the Holy Father himself in
Rome, who by letter deigned to acknowledge
their reception in the most gracious and benignant
terms, and expressed his gratitude to the Review
for the service he had rendered the Holy See"
Mr.. Brownson rightly hatters himself that the letter
Of Holy Father Is more thar simple acknowledge
meat of the receipt of his Volumes and he declares,
in October, 1854, that !" as yet no bishop In the
country has signfed to him the withdrawal OF the
appreciation heretofore given" (See October Re-
view, lS54) II, therefore, the certificate of the
bishops is entitled to any weight, Brownson may
be regarded as reliable authority. But we are not
compelled to rely upon Brownson for proof of the
Papal doctrine Of an indirect temporal jurisdic-
ton. Let us hear another proof.
7th. In an allocuton pronounced at Rome by
the reigning Pontif, Plus TX, on the 22d of Jan
uary, 1854, in relation to law Of the Sandman
government for equitable distribution of Church
property his Holiness held the following signif-
cant language: Eve again raise our voice with
Apostolic freedom in this solemn assembly, and we
reject and condemn not only all and each of the
DEGREES of that government hurtful to the rights
and authority of religion Of the Church. and of the
Holy See, but likewise the law lately proposed.
We declare all these acts to be absolutely null and
void" His Holiness then proceeds to threaten
penalties and censures, and hopes that he will be
spared the painful necessity of turning against the
government the weapons committed by God to his
sacred ministry" This allocution of Plus TX as
serts far more than an indirect temporal jurisdic-
ton contended for by U.s. 1t comes quite up to
the monstrous assumptions Of the Middle Ages.
It is not alone however IN its lofty assumptions
The ClyntT Cattolica is an authoritative Journal
aud organ published in Rome under the very eye
of the sovereign Pontif. The peculiar and dis
tinctive business of the publication is to maintain
the principles and support the authority Of the
Papacy, and it is as much entitled to credit, as an
exponent Of Papal views, as the Washington Union
as an exponent of the views of the Pierce admins
tration.
In an article published in November, 1854, we
find the avowal that, as the Church commands
the spiritual part of man directly, she therefore
commands the whole man and all that depends on
man" From the darkness Of the catacombs she
dictated laws to the subjects of the Emperors, alb
rogating DEGREES, whether plebean, senatorial, or
imperial, when in conflict with Catholic ord-
nances" "To every rampant heresy the Church
knew how to oppose the power either of the peo
Piles or of their princes" To-day, as in all times,
the Church commands the spiritual part of man !;
aud in ruling over the spirit, she rules the body,
rules over riches, over sciences, over affections,
over interests, over associations--rules, in fine,
over monarchs and their minister's" So far as
the means are concerned, the Church finds NO limit
I, her penal Justice Punishment has essentially
spiritual aims SO that those Febromans who ad-
yocate the separation of Church and State, and
question the competency of the Church In the mat
ter of penal Justice should rather question whether
punishment can properly belong at all to the tenn
poral power.n "The spiritual authority must be
entitled to everything conceded to the temporal
power" "There are no limits to exercise OF the
cocrcive power of the Church, either in view Of
h,r means or of her aim" "The Church is meek
because this is her spirit, not as If she, being
spiritual society, has no right to punish even with
blood or with death" I'VE shall have to allow
the Church to use those means without which she
cannot subsist and to make each one who does not
listen TO authority and reason, listen to the i'm
preston of sensible punishment"
We think we have sustained our position about
The temporal power of the Pope. 1t is a histori-
cal fact that the Popes have uniformly claimed and
exercised this power and it is historical fact that
they have never relinquished it. The power has
never been repudiated by single general council.
Il has been recognised by many general councils.
II is claimed in the bulls aud allocutions of Popee,
in the systematic writings of eminent Papal au-
thors, in Papal reviews and journals, and not only
In the provincial organs of archbishops and bsh-
obs, but in the accredited and distinctive organ OF
the sovereign Pontiff himself And If the power
h id never been once formally asserted or recog-
Missed in any of these ways, It flows at any rate
a logical and necessary consequence, from the
doctrine Of spiritual supremacy and
other Papal tenets and principles.
We hope that the anti American press will not
have the hardihood again to deny the claim Of
temporal power, until they learn the difference
between Gallican heresy and ultra-montane or.
thodoxy.