New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-01
FRANCK
PANS, SEPT II, 1866.

a
q Al tie world are bent just Dow upon Sie enVen-
smed Quarrel which has broken out within the Cath
oHe Church, and 10 fast arrsying all 'ne superior
.le,ev on one side or the other. Ihe arena OF the
.ns,,s, IA in The pages of the C~iee,s and the Ami
4. Ia B/Ggion the former representing the high
Chnreb interest, the latter the low Church. 1t
a.ens On the surface 10 be nothing more than 8
op,rrel between Ul.rdmont0ne and Gauiedn preten-
s;ons. characterization, which may be called
Young Catholicism, means the unlimited power Of
the Popes, or their superiority 10 general councils
and resolves the Church into despOtism Of the
most cruel type Gsllicanism is the doctrine of a
limited Papaey, the Limitation lying in the supre-
macy Of general councils, aud upon Occa-
sion. in the expressed will of the general
body Of the Clergy. 1t takes its name from the
fact that it has always been held in the French
Church that the Pope, as Christs vicar, has
temporal but only spiritual authority, and that
even this authority is subject to the limitations
above mentioned. This general doctrine vas clearly
formulated and established by the convention which
Louis XIV. summoned in 1872 to arrange the
quarrel between him and the then existing Pope,
and il subsequently became the basis of the concOr-
dat between Napoleon and Plus VII, which made
the former TO all intents and purposes the head Of
the French Church. Gallcanism is accordingly the
Could the French Church once be made u give up
IFS privicges-pryileges ratified by the Popes
themselves--the principle Of despOkm would have
al uncontrolled swing within all the bounds OF
the Church, and the Jesuits would have q jolly
time, they fancy. But the fact is if they had
their will iii this respect. they would only the
more efTecually stile the Church, or give it q
cleaner neck for the common sense OF mankind
to act upon. However this may be- they are now
doing their ndubitabe best to PROSTATE Gallican-
| ism, and the fight between Louis Neuilot and the
Able Sisson only proves that they have had great
success with the bishops. Ten or twelve OF these
| have given in their warm adhesion to the UHirers
and the Able SssOn has at length rellnqulshed the
contest in obedience to the order Of his diocesan,
| the Bishop Of Strasburg.
But, in reality prOfOunder interests are 1T work
in this quarrel as shall presently show you. But
first wish to translate for you brief but felikc
portrait OF Louis Veuot, which find IN recent
number of the Rerue de Paris. Veuillot is, in fact
a superior sort of BrownsOn, as hOpelessly narrow
in point of principle, full as persistent and pig
headed in point OF logic yet without Brownsons
nplacable dullness or dearth Of imagination. 1t
is thus the RtrEe de Paris paints him:
This journalist appears to be problem; he is in
truth OILY riddle. One is unable at a first glance
to define intellect 20 real and yet so
dsOrderly which is always good for "a laugh, but
never touches or cOnynces, which puts the Ian
guage Of the barrOom at the service OF the Church
and transforms the Gospel into mOuntebanks
hal augue. People doubt if this bufoOn be sincere,
if his trivial piety be not IN irony and 30 forth.
But We freely acquit him either Of great artlhce or
great peridy. He is brutal, coarse, indecorous
writer baleiul 10 re ieiOn incapable of dccacy-
but Lis will is in his convictions. NheD with
fonming lips and forehead benchod with fury, he
bends hinfef before the altar. he is unconscious OF
the sacrese II is a Substituted temperament,
not a bypocritical ole. His faith is bcady; every
wrangle intoxicates him; h. gets drunk upon holy
water Such natures belong to the past. Thus
the grand originality Of Mr.. Veuillot consists in
bis being an anachronism lie is fanatic monk of
the middle ages with RabelaiSan speech, and if
you were dis posed to male hiu figure in an in
tagGO symbolical OF this era, you would place his
grimace in the cntangements of the loose sculp-
ture of our Gothic porchea, amid the pcus
and impure persOnages who gamb0l at
tie top OF our cathedral columns. don't know,
and don't care to know, the youth of Mr.. VcuillOt,
but il doubtless had IFS storms since il led him To
repentsnce Then one day a certain terror seized
this pagan grace, or possibly the fear OF hell,
clutcled him by the throat; he was slntten with
conversion, as one is smitten with apOplcxy; the
mouth which was opened for a song howled out
caItcle; but it is always the same incorporate
temperament, the same unchanged way. Mr.. Neu
illoi is a materiaist who rcpOses bis instincts his
love of a seRsual security, IN formula. lie did
not arrive at faith slowly with effort by the psth
of doubt, meditation, study. His gross contempt
for spiritual dsquetudes sufficiently proves that
Tie man who has suffered, mediated, wept and
bIaycd, is slow TO condemn, never curses treats
with compassion the doubt Of others, and fears to
intensity tie plague he has felt IN himself. But
Veuilloi, who has rever known sorrow of soul feels
no need Of charity. tie got md once for all oi
future anNeties, aud assured himself against all the
angui,h and all the perturbatons of thought by sub
.cribing to the Church. He goes no further than
tbat 1 81 every one do as he does and all Will go
well-that's his religion. lie doesn't wish TO IN
damned linsef and he thinks he will steer clear OF
that danger by alacri,y in danning others. That
il the Whole of his in,sse For the rest, accepting.
exaggetatirg, btGsning the dogmas upon which he
fe, ds he believes like blind man and strikes Ike
deaf enc
Isn't that very cleyer' No doubt il is cruel
also: but Mr. Veulot is one of those tanatical
natures who would gladly tie whole nascent llfo
Of humanity stiled under revival Of prlcstly tyr
amy and do not believe he is capable Of any sut-
terrg but what disapponts that hope j said that
there were deeper interests than the obvious ones
behind this ecclesiastical quarrel Gal6canism is
merel, the mask of the old ro,alist pot clans, who
are seeking under that cover to make some capita
for Henry v The Jesuts know much better
than the politicians that that game is hope
less i'll France. They know inst royalty IN
France is forever dead, whatever else may
be living and that any effort to Tesuscltac II will
only be 10 much effort thrown away They wisely
prefer 10 stand by Louis Napoleon, who Is worth
the W hole united clans Of Bourbon and Orleans PIT
together not merely because he is man OF vastl!
sulcr;or sense and ability. ard the ictual pos
SCISSOR besides Of he Government but also, and
above all, because he is man Of the present, be-
caue lie is cgltl lte scion Of the Influences which
ale now making all things new i'll Europe. be- luse,
III ii word be- is child Of the H. outlon, and the
Revolution sits enihIonI in him. The JeSuits in
hill H.. bo i,t;n .