Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-11-05

however, savors more OF medieval con
ciet than sound logic, We shall drop the
ecclesiastical Technology and the forced
arrangement, and group together some
of the salient ideas and facts of modern
life, which are directly and unequivocally
pronounced to be damnable and sinful,
and contrary TO faith.
The freedom of the press.
Bible societies.
Liberal clerical associations.
The independence of Church and
State.
The civil contract of marriage as op-
posed to the governmental view.
Education outside of the control of
the Roman Catholic Church.
The objects and functions of legisla-
ton.
The relations of clergy and laity.
The modern idea of sound govern
ment and the relations of the governed
to the governing.
The views held by nearly all educated
men as to the functions and limits of hui
man reason; and
The objects, powers and results of sci
entific investigation.
AS will be seen at glance the indict.
ment of the Syllabus covers the whole
structure of modern society. In short,
the Pope arraigns the life of the nine
teenth century. and proposes to try it be-
fore tribunal of his own calling.
As is usual in courts martial and &c.
clesiastical tribunals the case is already
pre-judged. There can be no doubt
about the verdict. The Syllabus is it.
self sentence which assumes convic.
lion. All the council is called for is to
affirm it.
Whether right or wrong. the Pope
representing or claiming to represent the
dominant religion of Europe, has pro-
nounced the nineteenth century-its civ
il, political and social structure-a failure
and hence comes the throe. His remedy
is not to strive forward in faith and hope
for something better, but to 90 bark
He proposes to amend the world by
striking out the nineteenth century and
inserting the tenth. If this could only
be done, the jeremiad of the Syllabus
would give way TO a triumphant lie
Deum.
1t is this that has startled Europe. 1t
is this that has called out Archbishop
Darboy, Moutalembert, and Hyacinthe
in france; Dollinger in Germany; liar
roth in Hungary; Manning in England;
the circular by the Bavarian government
to the Catholic powers of the continent;
the refusal of Napoleon to allow the
French Bishops to publish the Syllabus
at all; the protest of the Theological
Faculty at Munich; the convention of
the nineteen bishops at Fulda, and set
the press of Europe teeming with pam,
phlets and essays.
So general is the protest, both by the
Catholic governments and the Cath
oil clergy of Europe, against the ex-
pedency of the Papal policy. that it is
estimated that the Bishops of Spain and
Austria alone will come into the Council
prepared to give his Holiness united
support--the only two delegations that
can be counted on.
And well may Europe pause before
the project of Pho Nino, who seems to
have the desperate ambition, if not the
brain and discretion, of Hildebrand. 1t
means for her the giving up of history;
the surrender of the struggle-moraI,
political. and physical-of centuries;
the blood and doubts and payers Of
generations. 1t means historical invo-
luton instead of historical Development.
In the light of modern history this
Syllabus proclaims civil and religious
revolution. 1t il in letter and spirit An
irfammatory and incendiary document.
The Catholic mouarchs and rulers of
Europe must give up their acqul ed rights
and privileges and lay down their crowns
even as Henry w. of Germany, and
John Of England, of unblessed memory,
laid down theirs. The Catholic voters of
Europe and Of tie ,corld must lay down
their votes aud civil franchiseses--th
modern conception and exercise of which
are generally damnable under the sixth
bead of the Syllabus.
Take for Instance, England, whose
popular and constitutional history is best
known in this country, aud see what the
triumph of the Syllabus involves for her.
She must blot out from her history
Cromwell and the PrcctectorAte. She
must strike from the roll of her childr
Milton-a Hampden--a Russell-a
Snider--a Vane. She must unIearn the
bloody lessons VIII ch an offended God
taught iu the heavy Judgement of the
Stuarts. She must roll back the revolu-
ton of less, and repeal at once and for
ever the reform bills OF the present cen
fury.
For the church the consequences are
hardly less disastrous. The position of
the Ultramontans is an absolute sepera-
ton between the Church and the life OF
the times as hopelessly conflicting and
irreconcilable. Father Hyacinthe elo-
quently states the danger and fallacy of
this position: g protest against the d.
yorce, as impious as it is insensate, sought