New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-18
THE GCUMENICAL COUNCIL.
DIR. MANNING ON TIE SYLLABTS.

DIX. MANNING On TIE S1LLABIS.
Archbishop Manning, on October Sd, delivered
discourse the Popes Syllabus at the Pro Cathedral
In KensnGton He expressed his belief that il the Pope
had confined himself in the Syllabus simply TO faith and
morality in the ordinary personal OF the word very
little would have been heard Of IT, because his Ho
had pointed out and condemned all those in
political philosophy which lay at the root of morals the
world had been in uprOar. DR.. Mapning then went
through the several points Of the Syllabus explaining
and defending each OF them
What the meaning OF modern civilization The
state Of political society founded upon divorce, secular
education infinite divisions, and contradictions in
Of religion and the absolute remuneration Of the
preme authority OF the Christian Church COuld IT, then,
be matter Of wonder that when the Roman Pontif pub
shed the syllabus all those who in love with mod
Or could IL he wondered that when the world with great
courtesy sometimes, with great superciliousness at
another tme and great menace always invites the RO-
man Pontif to reconcile himself to Liberalism progress
and modern civilization, he should say, NO. Will not
and cannot. Your progress means divorce maintain
Christian marriage Your progress secular edu.
cation; maintain that education is intrinsicslly aud
necessarily Christian You maintain that it is good
thing that men should think they like, talk as they
like preach they like, and propagate what errors
they please say that It's sowing error broadcast over
the world, Yon say have authority the Chris-
tan world that the vicar of the Good shepherd,
that am not the supreme interpreter OF the Christian
Faith. am all these You ask to abdicate, to
nounce my supreme authority You tell me l ought TO
submit TO the civil power that the subject OF tho
King Of Italy and from him am 10 receive Instructions
TO the way should exercise the civil power. say
am liberated from all civil sulectOn that my Lord made
the subject OF earth king otherwise that
in His rigG / am sovereign. acknowledge no civil
superior, am the subject Of prince and claim more
than thsI claim TO be the supreme judge and director
OF the consciences Of menOf the peasant that s the
field and the prince that sits on the throneof the house
hold that lives In the shade OF privacy and the
that makes laws for kngdomsI am the sole last su-
preme Judge OF what is right and wrong.
PROTEST MINORITY THE GCuMESICAL
COUNCIL OF THE MUNICH THEOLOGICAL FACULTY.
The London Times Of Oct publishes in full the protest
OF the minority Of the Munich Theologans. 1t covers
more than and half columns. The following Is the
substance:
Of f1.o Gt+1la 1t
exactly they lie before should be rejected t viii be
remembered by readers that the Syllabus consists on
nature she authoritative rejection Of which would trans
form their negative eounterparts into dogma s6lemny
and formally by the next General Council and even II
the nalibhty OF the Pope, when speaking &c ed0edrd
should be defined by IL In solemn and official manner
the dogmac view the relation OF the Church 10 the
State would not thereby become different from what
between the two would not for this reaCon become
another than II has hitherto been.
should lie condemned by the next General
Council and the nalihity OF the Pope when speaking
matte theology would not IN immediate consequence
thereof be bound teach their Lectures the doctrines
OF the divnely ordained sovereignty O the Pope over
the Monarchs Governments either pOtcstd drectd
poestas ndireetd IN temporad binding upon the
"Assumng that the theses OF the Syllabus in their
present shape should be condemned by the next General
Council and the Infallbity OF the Pope when speaking
oaherd be declared dogma the teachers OF dogmste
theology would not IN immediate consequence OF this be
obliged to teach doctrine binding on the conscience OF
every Christian that tue personal and real immuntes OF
"here is but one criterium which is considered
essential sign a ioeuio odhedrd by general consent
on the part OF those :heol0gans who ascrDe availability
to the cathedrd speaking Pope; This criterun, ao'
cOrding 20 them consists IN ths-that the Pope, as
Something bn that he should the lay down
in and distinct manner that this thing should be
Prom the answer TO the first four questions it may be
that eventual solemn aecePaton on me part OF
ply such. and apart from such
ali
cation and the popular school DOCKS as Tar as the ea
tons of the Church TO the State are concerned.
Assuming the above case only the dogma OF the IN.
falDy OF the Pope would have to be inserted into the
"From this detailed reply 70 the nve questions there
follows the dogmatic general resultthat an eventual
Of the SYLLABUS in its present state and raising into
dogma the part Of the Council Of the naliby OF the
POpe speaking cathedral would not alter directly
as such, the existing status qno between state ana
Church, and would not carry with it the Doctrine OF
archs and Governments one binding In conscience
upon every ana az and real m
ties OF the clergy, not merely In general but also IN de-
tail and purely sucb produce any alteration In schOOi
teaching as far as the relations between Church and
state are concerned" ..
FEELING IN TRANCE.
The Paris correspondent OF The London Telegraph.
writes The theological faculty OF the Sorbonne is
OF the way OF thinking Of the CarIneite friar and
that faculty includes such the Abbe Perraud:
Pere Gratry thinks with him. so does Dollnger, OF
| Munich IL recent whsperings from that capital be
founded on truth and so does despicabe portion OF
the North German Epscopacy Mgr Kettler Of Mayence
at It's head The statement current that Pere
consulted the Archbishop of Paris and that his grace
felt neted by the neglect OF courtesy but the
exclamation that the risr who Is personal friend OF
the preate advisedy did not ask his advice lest be
should put him into q position OF dmcnlty-that OF
choosing the discipline Of his CLOTH on the one
hand and Instincts Of his heart the other There
has since been meeting between the two which IL az
drmed 10 nave cordial In Its nature the arch
bishop did not withhold his condemnation OF fere hya
eintbes prudence publishing the letter he did, but
neither did he withhold the old fraternal grasp.
psuop uAHEr's FURTHER OPINIONS THE COUNCIL.
On his own part says the journal d@ De0dn, Mgr'
Maret in his work on the General Council and religious
peace expresses himself thus "When all the canonca
rules have been regiousy observed. that IL, when all
the rights and usuages have been scrupuoSy
are assured that the Holy Spirit present III the iust
OF the council speaks by the moral uDanmlty or nrougn
the agreement OF the majority The mas noi
been given that the rights OF the bishops VIII De
lOnsly respected "The bishops" adds Mgr Marey nave
the divine right 10 examine ana discuss ~ w
Dean OF the Faculty OF Theology 1T Paris also auus
in the general council the bishOps form essentially
deliberatiye and free assembly" Whatever may DO our
Incompetency in dealing with such matters ~ seems
knowa ease OF nuty may ARISE IN the name OF theo.
Ogy Itself against the decisions OF the council il u
appears 10 deliberate without freedom WHICH 10 the e.
seJ,ltdi character OF Hcumenical Councils
THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT AND TIE COUNCIL.
The italian Government has. says the Paris Journal
0Dee shown its attitude in regard TO the Council by
which Deutrazes IT, unless the resolutions Of
Council shall interfere with the laws Constitution
Of the State BY circular from the MsIeT Of Justice