Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-25

VIII never 0ctteUe what II has NOT Arrays OetteVed
Had he lived little longer, this last phrase would
have sorey troubled him, since the Pope has late
ly proclaimed, as an article Of faith, (behef) the
Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary
BellarInine says: The Pope ca,s'sot err, as |
Pope y the DEGREES of the council are infallbe.'
Bishop England says; : We believe that gen
eral council is injalli6ke in doctrinal decisions
De Maistre says :" / do not pretend TO raise the
least doubt in regard TO the infallibility of gen.
eral council" Further: ~ firmly believe that
God has preserved the truly eocumenical council
from all error contrary to sound doctrine"
beg my hearers land readers) to remember
these authorities we shall need them as we ad-
vance in the argument and let me say, once for
all, that ON this grand subject, have not relied
upon Protestant writer's. have taken nothing
from report, rumor, or newspapers. ! have con
suited the purest sources of Information and ]
pledge myself TO the country that my facts are
taken from the most authentic writers-most Of
them professed and obedient Roman Catholics.
EARLY HUMILITY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS.
In the earlier history of the Roman Catholic
Church, the bishops were meek and lowly men,
after the fashion of Peter and Paul, the fisherman
and tent-maker They professed to be the servant
of serpants For six or seven centuries they pre-
served their character for Christian humility.
here quote from Bowers, the author Of an elabo
rate work--the LIVES OF THE Pores. He was
Catholic himself when he began the work but be-
came a Protestant in the course of his investiga-
tions. He was not only Catholic, but counsel
lor Of the inquisiton at Nacerata. He says
~ do not believe that the Popes designed, at first,
to run those lengths, carry the Papal prerogatiye
TO that extravagant height they afterwards did The
that attended them in pursuit OF one claim
encouraged them TO set up and pursue another. OF
this no one can doubt who peruses with the least at
tenton the records Of those ages and compares the
Popes in the beginning of the seventh century with
the Popes In the latter end Of the eleventh We shall
Ioft
hitting, with all humility, to princess claiming no
kind Of authority jurisdiction whatsoever, but in
virtue of the Of councils, the rescripts OF
Emperors; glorying or pretending to glory, N the
themselves subjects and vassals OF the Emperors and
patiently waiting the will and pleasure Of their ege
lords to take upon them the Episcopal dignity, or ex
ercise the functions of that office. Such were the
Bishops Of Rome in the beginning. Of the seventh
century. How different from those in the latter end
of the eleventh! They were then vested with the
pJenitude of all olper both spiritual and temporal
above councils and uncontrolled by their canons the
fountain of all pastoral jurisdiction and authority
and by Dipiae sanction, Empowered to enact estab-
lish abrogate, suspend, all ecclesiastical laws and
constitutions they were then become lords and
tersthe most naughty and imperious lords, the most
i severe masters mankind had ever groaned under.
They no more begged, but dispensed titles Boosting
power of setting up Kings, and pulling them down
at pleasure; of calling them to account, absoving
their subjects from their allegiance divesting them Of
/ their dominions and treating, in every respect as
i
and greatest predecessors had acknowledged superior
to all men, and thought himself in duty bound 70 obey
The plenitude of power, they style it, was not
CURED at once, but by degrees, some OF the popes
being more and some less active crafty, and aspiring
But what is 0efy remarkable OF the one hundred and
fourteen Popes between Boniface III, who laid the
foundation Of Papal grandeur, and Gregory VII, who
raised it to the highest PITCH not one eoer os an ch
Of ground his predecessor had gained And thus, by
constantly acquiring, and never parting with what
they acquired and By tying the hands Of their
sors by the irreverslble entail OF Divine right they
became the sole spiritual lords and had almost made
themselves the greatest temporal lords OF the whole
of the Christian world"
GRADUAL RISE or THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
For seven hundred years, l have stated, the
bishops were meek and lowly men. II was in the
dark ages, when ignorance and superstition over
Swallowed the world, when the Popes advanced TO
power. And was not until the days of Gregory
VII, in the eleventh century, that Pope had the
audacity to say to a monarch, "You have for
feited your kingdom, and your subjects are OBJ
solved from their oath Of tealty." In the case of
Henry w, the Pope declared, that the Emperor
was amenable to the Papal court of judicature, !"
before which he was summoned. He was next
deprived of his throne, and his subjects were alb
solved from their oath of allegiance! The Pope
claimed the right to dispose of Henry's empire,
Nth absolute authority, as a yfJ Of 80. Peter
This case was referred to and detailed and justi-
fed by the honorable gentleman from Pennsylva-
mia, (Mr. CHANDLER.) The same gentleman admits
Undoubtedly the Pope has proceeded to dethrone
Kings and thus to release subjects History declares
that more than monarch has been made to de-
scend from his throne by the edct Of the Pope and
that the allegiance of his subjects has been transfer
rcd, by that edict, to a succeeding monarch"
This is an admission-the argument would be
quite sufficient for our purpose. But before pro-
coed to reply to the gentleman from Pennsylvania,
propose to establish the historical fact that for
six or seven hundred years, the Bishops Of Rome
1.-THE Popes) have claimed and exercised the right
as a divine right-to depose monarchs, and to sb-
solVe their subjects.
In sos, when the emperor Constans went to
Rome the Pope went out six miles, with all his
clergy to meet him, and attending him, during his
stay In Rome, as his lord aud moster But in ll6l,
Henry III. and Louis of France, "met the Pope,
and thew gave him such marks of respect that they
both dismounted to receive him, and holding, each
of them, one of the reins Of has bride, walked on
foot by his side, and conducted him in that sub
missve manner into the castle--a spectacle to
God, angels and men, and such as had never be-
fore been exhibited TO the world"
About this period began the serious disturb
ances between the Kings of England and the Pope.
Hume says:
"The usurppaon of the clergy, which had at first
; | been OradusJ were become so rapid and had
mounfcs 90 such height that the contest between
sdt and pontsfciat was really arrived at crisis
N England, and 1t became necessary 10 determine
|
Arch6ishoP Of Canterbury should be sovereign Of the
kingdom"
In quarrel recently, between the Neapolitan
government and the Jesuts the reader will see from
the extract below, what the Jesuits think of majesty
and liberalism, and how supple they are to claim
and TO surrender opinions, either for themselves or
| the Pope:
TURIN, December GA curious quarrel has late
/ ly broken out between the Neapolitan government
and the Jesuits in that kingdom. II appears the lat
ter had been in the habit OF teaching that the Pope
was superior TO all the other soveregns of the earth
and the former has for unexplained reason quite
recently thought proper TO regard this not very novel
doctrine among Roman Catholics, as highly revolu-
tionary in its tendency The consequence was, that
NJ Maria, the director Of police, sent for Padre Giu-
seppe the chief Of the Jesuits the other day, and
told him they must discontinue this practice, and
should recollect that In 1s4s, they sent out Of
the country in carriages; but IL these things con-
| tnue, said the worthy minister, the government
will kick you out Of the kingdom. MOI Ui cacccrs
mo catc,' were the precise words. The reverend
father, much distressed at the result Of this inter
view, FASTENED back 10 his convent and lost no time
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