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Germany, and Ahs1 .1o
trust tie Ispal des'gns felouse 10
the approaching Council. take altfm- Fos
4 il no less than tho attempt o1 flo Mono
to reyolutiouiEe tho Constitution of the
Catholic Church and suFeEsedo ats ieg7sla-
tive suthoritJ by voting supreme Legislative
powers in its executive. had the Roman
Puutid wnitet1 until the Church, in BoIemn
council assembled, had declared his infali.
bi;ity, there would have bean cartain
stern logic in an assumption by
any future Ponsid d the right
Of absolute control over the Supreme ooun-
Gil Of the Church. For, Is nothing can be
wiser than the infalhblo, no delibendvs NJ
Eistanee can be called for BY Pops whose
inlsllbility hAs been assured. Bat, accord
ing to the theory, practice, and constitution
of the Catholic Church herotofore, tho
Pope sustaina the asrus relation to tho
General Council rs d P1esident to Con
gzesa, OF IS any executive sustains 10 the
law.making power. While no aneh 0oun-
eli was in session, tue Popes supremacy
Was acknowledged But the moment the
entire. Church, by its Biahora, came to-
pethcr in general council, an authority WAS
raised which could even depose the Pope
bimse1f- 1he real sovereignty Of the
Church has always heretofore been vested
in the general council Of it's Bishops, and it
required only that they should ct act deczeo
| requiring the Pope to call them together
periodically, and thus The so-called despotie
hierarchy Of Home would, without any cub
version Of its present constitution, become
a limited monarchy, with weA-aeaned con-
stitution and perpetual parliament, to
wb'eh the rope wonld be at aa}}timea suhor-
dinate. Instead of this, the Pope essays
the retzosrade measure Of practically abol-
'shing the sovereignty Of the Church
and substituting the sovereignty
Of the Pope alone. In tho
height OF Its now walning power, the Papal
power made no such psetensions. Whom tbs
Pope Of Kone trod upon the neck OF Kings,
and brought EmpeEofs suppliant before
h'm to he laRhed IN his presence, it was the
Church, as whole, which, personated by
The pepe, thus asserted its supremacy over
the State. Every Bishop md priest had d
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sonated But IN the presen. revolutionary
measure the Pope aspsres to tread On the
neck OF the Church, as be formerly did On
That Of the State. Let the Genaral Council
1atif5 this decree Of despotism snd there
would thereafter he no power in the Cath
olic Church, accounting to it's own doctrine,
able to restrain the Pope from asserting
his omnipotence and omniscience, as well as
hts infa1hbility from asserting equality for
himself with the Esther, Son, and
Holy Ghost; from changing tbs
Divine Trinity into a Divine
QuAteznity, of whom Pho Eino would bo
the fourth person, the second, or the first
in the Godheaa, as he might prefer. Hay.
ing done nll this, no Catholic would have
any right as such to complain Il he then
proceeded TO s1communicate and put to
death eyery Cardinal, Bishop, nriest- O,
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