Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-08
WHOLE NO. 545.

Gil OF Trent, AS follows:
Sacrifice and priesthood are by the ordinance
OF uod, IN such wise enjoined as that both have
| existed 10 every law Whereas, therefore, in the
new testament, the Catholic church has received
from the institution Of our Lord the holy visible
sacrince OF the Eucharist 1t must Of necessity and
also De confessed that there Is, in that (churcb)
new, visible, and external priesthood, into which
the old has been translated; and the Sacred scrp
lures show, and the tradition of the Holy Catholic
Church has always taught that this was instituted
by the same Lord, our Saviour, and that TO the
apostles and to their successors In the priesthood
the power was delivered of consecrating, Offering
and administering His body and blood, as also Of
remitting and retaining SINS re
CHAP. 22.-" The Holy Synod being desirous
that ecclesiastical discipline may not only be re-
stored among the Christian people, but that il also
may be preserved sound and safe from all manner
of hindrance, besides those things which il has or
daned respecting ecclesiastical persons has thought
t that secular princes also be admonished of their
duty-trustng that they, as Catholics, whom God
has willed to be the protectors OF holy faith and
church, will not only grant that to the church her
own right be restored but will also recall all their
own subjects to the reyerance due towards the
| clergy, parish priests, and superior orders; nor
permit that their officials or inferior magistrates
through any eagernesa of covetousness, or any
want Of consideration, violate that immunity of the
church, and Of ecclesiastical persons, which, by the
ordinance of God and by the sanctions of the can
ons has been established but that they render to-
| gether with the princes themselves, due obser-
vance to the sacred constitutions of sovereign pom
| tiffs, and Of councils, !" DC.
| Luther taught the truth of the following among
many other propositions which were condemned
! by the Pope and the church.
| PROPOSITION 25-" The Roman Pontiff, sue
cessor of Peter is not the Vicar of Christ instituted
over all churches of the entire world by Christ
himself in Saint Peter"
PROPOSITION 27.-" 1t is certain that it is not at
all in the power Of the church or of the Pope to
determine articles of faith nay neither the Iaws of
morals nor of good works"
The condemnation of these and other PROPOSE
| tions by the Pope is as follows:
:" All and each of the aforesaid articles, or er
rors, as being, as is promised, respectively heret-
CAL or scandalous, false or offensive to pious ears
| or suited to lead astray simple minds or contrary
to Catholic truth, we condemn, reprobate, and
entirely reject" &c.
THE FOLLOWING EXTRACTS ARE FROM RANCHES
HIsToRY OF THE PoPEs hE
The Spirit, (says Belarmine, a Roman Catholic
wrier) guides and brides the flesh not nice Versa.
just so the temporal authority must not presume
to exat itself above the spiritual, to guide. com.
mand or punish it. This would be rebellion-a
heathenish tyranny. The priesthood have their
Prince who commands them, not only in spiritual,
but in temporal affairs; it is impossible that they
should acknowledge special temporal superior
no man can serve two masters It for the Priest
to jud 20 the Emperor not the Emperor the
Priest; it would be absurd were the sheep TO
think ofjudging the shepherd. To tie
clergy OF the New Testament belongs exactly the
same right that was formerly conceded to the Ie-
vites under the old dispeAsation." This was
doctrine which promised that spiritual republic to
which was to accrue so great an influence over the
State, no less complete independence of a,y
reaction on the part Of the latter on which It was
sought in Rome to establish, by innumerabe proofs
from Scripture, from councils, and rom imperial
and papal constitutions, and which was considered
on the whole, as irrefutable. sss
| have stated that some European Catholics
protested against the power of the Church and
Pope OF Rome. In confirmation refer to Rancke's
History of the Popes. In the disputes between
Louis XIV. of France and the Pope, that wri-
ter says:
At any rate, the clergy stood by their King
against the Pope without scruple; year after wear
they put forth more decided declarations in fayor
OF royal authority. At last ensued the conyoca-
ton of 1882. The four articles it drew up. have
ever been regarded as the manifesto of Gallican
liberties. Tho first three reiterated principles as
serted before---the independence of the secular
power, as regarded the spiritual-the superiority
of councils over the Pope-and the inviolability of
the Gallican usages But the fourth is more re-
markable, inasmuch as it limits the spiritual au-
thorty of the Pope. Even in questions of faith
the Pope's decision is not incapable of Amendment
SO long as 1t has not received the assent of the
Church." fM
This opposition led to war. In the meantime
that Pope died, and Alexander the VIII. This
successor,) proclaimed anew the resolutions of
1882 to be invalid and void null and of ne effect.
not binding even though backed by the force of
an oath--declaring that day and night he thought
nD fhpn witt haart f,,lI Of t.e
up his eyes with tears and sobs At last the
French clergy submitted to the Pope in these hu-
initiating words: PROSTATE at the feet of your
Holiness we profess unspeakable sorrow for
the same" If the Pope could only hear my two
colleagues in their defence Of him, stripping him
Of the attributes Of Saint Peter how bitter would
be his sorrow and how he would weep and Sob
Rancke sa-s of the Council of Trent, that it was
the most important Of modern ages:
"The faithful were again subjected to the un-
compromising discipline of the Church. and in
urgent cases, to the sword of excommunicatiop.
1t was regulation attended with
weghty results that the bishops found themselves,
by special confession of faith signed and sworn
to by them, to observance of the DEGREES of the
Council of Trent and to submissiveness to the
Pope. As the exclusive right of in
terpretng the decrees Of the Council of Trent was
reserved 10 the Pope, it was always in his power
to prescribe rules for faith and conduct"
The same author in relating the history of the
struggles Of the Protestants, and the conferences
held in order to effect reconciliation with the
Church, says, the Pope instructed his legate to the
conference" We must first see whether the Pro-
testants accord with in the main principles. for
example, the supremacy Of the Holy See, the sa-
craments, and some others
IL has been asserted by my colleagues that
American Catholics DO not acknowledge the doc
trine of the supremacy of the Pope as have ex-
planned it. do not pretend to state the indiyid-
usl opinions OF members of the Catholic Church.