New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-30
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Catholic Church, founded and estabiisheu py ti.e
Torsi Christ for the everlasting saivatoh u MAJ
tsu has acauired the form of perfect society by
M lis;na character it ought, therefore, m the fui-
lIme.f Of is sacred ministry to possess that Tree,
dom 81 which it may NOT be subject 70 any civil
power And iuriss NEE ~ olisa " c xsrs
i, aceorance with the conditions and necessity of
9the times. 1t was, therefore, in accordance with
Divine Providence, that after the fall Of the Roman
Empire and its consecutive division into several
kingdnans the Ronish Pope, whom Christ has es-
tabshed as the chief and the center Of his whole
church, obtained temporal power. Therefore, it
has been ordered By God in the wisest manner that
as such a great number and variety Of princes ex-
ist, the Holy Pope should enjoy the political liberty
which he SO much wanted, in order to exercise his
spiritual power, authority and jurisdiction in the
whole world without any impeaiments.
And, therefore. it was necessary that the whole
Catholic world should not have any reason to sup
pose that the Romsh Pope is subject to any in
iuence of temporal power, or biased in the ex-
ercise of the religious powers which the Holy See
has to fulfil over the greatest part Of the Christ
ians. It is easily understood that the dominion of
our Roman church, although having the appear
ance of something temporal, nevertheless y really
of a spiritual character, by the holy destination n
which it enjoys, and by the close ties by which il
is connected with all Christian affairs. But this
does not prevent that ail those things which con
duce to the secular welfare of the people may be
obtained by the Church, as the history OF the tent
porai reign Of the Roman Popes during 50 many
centuries shows most clearly The general good
and welfare Of the people being increased " the
temporal power which We are auding e, u = mol
astonishing that the enemies of this Church en-
deavored to weaken and embarrass it by many in
trignes and all kinds of attempts.
III these impious attempts they were vanqushed,
sooner or later, by God, who always defended the
| The rbN1p
during these sad times, the adyersaries Of the Ca
tholic and Apostolic See have made themselves
detestable by their attempts, which were charac-
terized BY their lying. hypocrisy in trying to de-
priye The Holy See 81 its secular power. They
could not obtain their end by an open attack and
by force OF arms, but only BY false and pernicious
principles, by cunning discrimination IN their CON
duct, and by maliciousy provoking popular ris-
ings. They did not blush to counsel the people to
sedition against their Princes which is clearly and
distinctly condemned by the Apostle, when he
says: g Let every soul be subject to the higher
powers, for there is no power but OF God; the
powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoeyer,
therefore, resisteth the power resisteth the ofai
nance Of God and they that resist shall receive to
| themselves damnation. (St. Paul Ep. ad. Rom.
G. xiii. v. ct seq.) These wicked innovators, IN
attacking the temporal power of the Church and
1 its temporal dominion, and in despsing its yenera
BILE authority, go SO far in their impudence as to-
| feign TO esteem fer the Church and obedience to
| her commands. And il is the more to be deplored
that some of those on whom, as sons of the Catho
lie Church, the duty was imposed to protect that
| Church and to maintoin its power, have sullied
| themselves by their wicked acts
| In these mischievous and perrerse intrlgues,s
which we deplore, the Sandman Government has
4 the principal part. as tits generally known how
much in that kingdom the Church has suffered inlu
ries aud restrictions, which have already vehe-
rnenty lamented in our Consistorial aiocution Of
4 the I'D of January, 1855. The Sandman Govern
ment has, until now, despsed our just reclamations,
and has even dared to infiict upon our church
according to the will Of God, the Holy See of st.
! Peter as stated above, ought TO be protected in
the liberty Of its apostolic office. The first evident
signs of the hostile attacks were seen at the Paris
Congress Of the year 1866, when that power, among
other hostile declarations, proposed to weaken the
temporal power of the Pope, and the authority Of
the Holy Sec. But last year, when the war broke
out between the Emperor Of Austria and the En-
perer of the French, and the King Of Sardinia, no
fraud, no sin, was avoided which could excite the
Inhabitants of the States Of the Church to sediton
Hence, instigators were dispatched, great deal Of
| money was spent, arms were supplied, excitement
was created BY bad pamphlets and journals, and
fraud Of every kind was employed. even on the
part Of those who were members OF the embassy
| of that country at Rome, without any regard TO
honesty and international right, as they pretended
their dignity in order to be enabled to rnisus it to
pursue their dark projects for damaging our Papal
4 Government.
4 When, then, III some Of our provinces the sedi-
/ ton, which for some time had been already enter
i
agitators directly proclaimed aroyal dictatorship,
| and commissioners of the Sandman Government
| were Immediately appointed, who then. as assum
| ing other titles, undertook to govern those prov
| inces. During these occurrences we remembered
serious office did not fail in ALLEGATIONS of the
| Goth of June and 2stl of September of last year
to complain loudly of those violations Of the lem
porai power, and TO remind the violators of the
punishment and atonement which are imposed by
the canical laws, and which they became liable to-
II might have been expected that the originators of
these violations would in consequence of our re-
peated adnlontonR, abstain from their unjust pro-
iects, especially as all the chiefs OF our Holy
Church, as well as the faithful believers of every
rank, dignity and class, Joined their protests
to ours in order TO defend unanimously the rights
OF the Holy See and of the Church in general, as
| they very yell understood how much the temporal
\ power. which Is made questionable on this occa-
sion. IL necessary fnl the maintenance ofthe Papal
power. But, we shudder in saying it, the Sar
dnian Government has not only despsed our adj
monition and complaints and our religious resent
ment, but by perseyering in its wickedness by
force, money, threats, terror and other cunning
means, they obtained the universal vote in their
| favor, and dared to invade our provinces to occu.
py them, and to subject them to their power.
This Is great proclamation, rs the rights of others
i have been nsurped against the law Of nature and
Of God, every law has been overthrown, and the
bases Of all temporal power and human society
| have been undermined. We perceive on one side,
with tho greatest grief, how useless would be all
further complaints against those who, like deaf adj
deFs, close their eyes and do not listen to our COM
| plants and admonitions; and on the other side,
\ we feel that the cause of our Apostolic See, and
the whole Catholic world, require for stgmatizing
the attempts of those wicked men, in order, not by
tarrying. to prejudice the grave dignity of our
grave office. II resulted that, faithful to the ex-
ample Of our illnstrious predecessors, we exercise
that authority which giYes us the power to loosen
and to bind in order to employ the necessary seve-
rity against the guilty, and to give salutary ex.
ample to others.
Having invoked the light of the Holy Spirit in
private and public prayers. and having taken adj.
yce OF the reverend brothers. the Cardinals Of our
holy Remish Church, we declare, in accordance
with the authority which We hold from Almighty
God and the most holy apostles, Peter and Paul
and also il accordance with our own authority, oil
those who have taken part in the sinful nsurrectior
ia our provinces. In usurping, occupying Or invad
ing them, or in doing such deeds as we complained
Of in tho aforementioned allocutions of thu
Goth Of June and the 26th of September Of the las
year; or those who have perpetrated some o
those acts themselves, as well as those who havt
been their warrantors, supporters, helpers, coun
s6lors, followers, well as those who connyed ii
executing the aforementioned deeds, under what
ever pretense, and in whatever manner, or whe
lperpetrated them themselves, to have taker
on themselves the atonement OF the major excom
niunication and religious punishment, as they are
determined in onr apostolic constitution, and BY
the decree OF the general council, especially thai
of Trent; (sess. %, chap. IL on Reforms \ and il