The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-12
nm. Pop.,s .Alloeution.

The following paragraphs from the allocu-
ton delivered June 9th, at the ceremony of
the canonization of the martyrs of Japan,
embrace SO much as refers to the Pope's tenn
poral dominions- sia COOS e sasaoas z +
eAsfVKNERABLR BRKTHREN: We have been
filed with the greatest joy, venerable breth-
rem, that we have been eaabled, with the assist
ance OF God, TO decree the honors and worship
of saints to twenty-seven invincible her oes of
our divine religion in the presence Of you,
who are endowed with distinguished piety and
virtue, and have been invited 70 shareour So
licitude In these trying times, fighting for our
Israel, to OR great relief and consolation.
Would that Mf1ifs M6 are 0xarwhelmed with
Joy, no cause Of grief and mourning existed
elsewhere to sadden us. But wecannot Other
wise grieve and be afflicted when we see the
very sad and Rever-te- be-sufici y-deplored
evils and losses by which, with the great det
fiment of Souls, the Catholic Church, and
| civil society itself, are oppressed aid yexed IN
q lamentable manner. You well know, vener
able brethren, the truly UBIQUITOUS war against
the whole Catholic republic which has beer
declared by those men who, enemies of tho
beross;o Christ not supporting bis doctrines,
and associated together by nefarious alliance,
blaspheme what they are ignorsnt of, and
by depraved arts Of every description, endea-
vor to weaken the foundstiono of our most holy
breligion and of human .society-yea, and il il.
were possible, thoroughly to upset them, and
to Undue the minds and souls of all with tho
most Ierniciousi errcrs-to corrupt and root
them out of the Catholic religion. lssazaH az
liz Indeed, those most crafty artifcers of fraud
and mendacious fabricators do not cease to
raise out Of darkness certain monstrous por.
tents Of former errors, already and often *.
posed and rejected by thesonndests writers, and.
condemned by the weightiest Judgment Of tho
Church, and to exaggerate these portsnts, pre-
\ sented under the most deceitfui forms and
4 words, and to disseminate them by all possible
Il methods. By thesamelanchely and altogether
8, cdiabolicsl arts they contaminate, debase the
knowledge of all, diffuse deadly poison, to the
4 destruction Of souls, exercise an lunbridled
licentioasness Of life and deprazsd desires, IN
vert social and religious order, and endeavor to
extinguish every idea of justice, truth, right,
honesty and religion, and deride, despise. OPP
pose the most sacred dogmas %. Christ. The
mind shudders and shrinks1 back, and dread.
even lightly to touch upon such great and pes
tifsrous errors bgwhioh men Of this descrip-
J tion in these most unhappy times mingle all
things, divine and human. No one of you
! venerable brethren, is ignorant that by tness
Il mem is evidently destroyed that necessary
q Conference which by the win Of God Interviews
! between each order, IS well natural rs super
natural, and that by these men, too, are alto
II gether changed, sssubvertedss DESTROYED tbs
peculiar, true, and genuine genius Of The
, divine relation, the authority and constitution
and power of the church. ! ssas-ag7se3
l1o And they proceed with that temerity O
opinion that they do not fear most eudseiously
10 deny all truth and all law poWerf and righl
, of divine origin since they do not blnsh tc
assert that the knowledge of PHILOSOPHERS
subjects and morals ~ also civil laws are adj,
and ought to be independent of divine reveal
, tion,s and of the authority of the church, and
: that the church is not true and perfect soci
} ETY. manifestly trea nor has any power over iu
x deWn peculiar1and constant laws conferred OF
TIC byits Divine Founder, but that il belong
, to the civil power to define what are the law
. of the church and the limits within which shl
!, can exercise her rights Hence they perversel,
insist that the civil power can interfere in mat
tiers which balong 10 religions morals and spir
, itual government and can prevent the over
t seers of sasred things and the faithful from
u communicating freely aud, mutaalI with til
Roman Pontif, divinely constituted the 50
u preme pastor of she whole church, 90 that
3 clearly dissolved that necessary and close con
: nexion which ought 10 exist between the mem
r bers off Christ's mystical body and is visibl
t head according 10 the divine Institution Q
l Christ, the Lord himself sag,s 800 - (.
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