New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-22

caTUOJJc VOJCES AGAINST THE COUNCIL
There Is little connection, on the whole,
among the Roman Catholics OF this country
with regard to the great Council which Is 10
begin Oh the eighth of December. But IN Eu-
rope it has long been known that thousands OF
the most intelligent priests and laymen anu
millions of the masses of the people repudiate
| the principles of the Papal Syllabus, to which
il il feared the coming Council will give fur
Their sanction and development. AS the time
| for the opening of the Council draws near, the
| oppostion, at first more latent, becomes more
evident and gives proofs OF strength when
will take most of the heads of, the Church by
SURPRISE We have room only to refer TO rev
of the most prominent among the pertinent
| facts of a recent date.
| The most remarkable is mentioned in
Cable dispatch of this morning Father
| Uyacinthe. the greatest Catholic pulpit orator
of France the peer of BOssuet, BOurdalone, and
| the other great lights Of the French pulpits,
| has found it impossible to withhold any longer
his public dissent from the doctrines which are
| in advance assured of the approval OF the
| Council Though Jealous priest OF his Church
in all points of faith, Fatherl Hyaclnthe mas
always been hopeful believer IN the recon-
| cilability of Christianity with progress. lie
has heretofore carefully avoided any public
disagreement with his ecclesiastical superiors,
and. living ins diocese whose archbishop is
himself classed among the semi-Liberals, he
has been able to retain good standing in the
| Church. not many months ago he was repre-
seuted to have had friendly interview with the
| pope. Now, as we learn by Cable, he finds 1t
impossible TO leave his position with regard to
the Council any longer underlined. lie pub
lished letter to the General of the Dominican
| Order of which he is a member, and in it
announces to the whole world that he can no
longer regard the views which prevail in Rome
IA being in accordance with Christianity, and
that, therefore, he leaves the convent.
| Among the Catholic laymen of France there
| is none whose reputation as champion OF
| Catholic interests can stand any comparison
with that of Count Montalembert. He has
| long been on the point of death, but from his
sick-bed he has publicly declared his entire
sympathy with an address recently issued by
n number of eminent German Catholics against
the ultramontane theories which the promoters
of the Council are determined to enforce. A
similar view has been taken by the greatest
|
Professor Dollinger of Munich. He has for
months made no secret of his unylelding Top
position to the doctrine of the majority OF
| bishops Whether one of the keenest PAM
phlets against the Council which have yet APP
peared is from his pen is still contested; but
when officially asked by the Bavaran Prime
Minister concerning the rights of the States
with regard to the expected ultramontane
resolutions of the Council, he, with several of
his colleagues, has given an answer which will
be no less distasteful to know that the express
sions of Montalembert and Father Hyacinthe
| for Hungary, the ablest of the Catholic bishops,
| Michael IIOrrath, is the leader OF a movement
which is intended to break the power of ultra
| montanism to strengthen tho hands of the
Liberal Ministry, and to secure u participation
of the laity in the administration of Church
affairs.
Such are a few striking indications of the drift
of public opinion among the European MEM
bers of the Catholic Church. There is a great
and growing dissent among the laty of Europe,
but especially of Germany, to the doctrine OF
the Syllabus which pronounces the present civil
izaton as fatally in error and in apostacy from
| Christianity. His Holiness writes to the
| Catholics of Austria that he hopes the
| Ecumenical Council will have the great
est and most fortunate results for all
mankind but these words of promise will fail
to allay the dstrust of Christendom excited
by his organ, the CiUiltd Cdtholica, which de-
cares that the Council will never pronounce
the separation of Church and State, and the
demand for religious liberation lis, in the
mouth of a Catholic, q monstrosity.n The
prayers of two hundred millions of Catholics
will, it is believed by the Church's faithful, be
an element in tho evolution of the final truth
of the Councils decision but it is plain that
the anticipated decisions of Roman Council
have never been SO much prayed against as
now and that, too, among Catholics them
selves.