The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-12-04

aud confirmed the dogma OF tranBub.
slnnIlAlIon-that is, that the broad ant
wine OF the mass are converted Into lhI
very body and blood OF Christ. ThI
council Of Trent finally passed upoE
many Of the great fundamental doc.
trlnee Of the papaoy. 1t lent IL
Hanctlon 10 the dogma that con.
ouplscenoo 10 not sin, 10 the scholastic
conception OF Justification a5Id6ntical
with 6anotiacAtlonito The aeyen Raora,
menta consisting ot, confirmation, PEN
ance, extreme Junction.. orders, and
matrlmony, a. well as baptism and The
Lords Supper 10 the withholding iol
the wine from the people In the Lord
Supper; 10 pnrRRtofy, lndulgences and
many other Of the abomlnAtlohH bI
pop6ry. ] leave It to you 20 Judge
whether these doctrines are Ia accord
Ance with either Scripture or reason.
You may Judge by the past In regard 10
the assumption that the present council
will DO in1Alllhly guided by the 9bIrll
Of God 70 conclusions In harmony With
the revelation Of Heaven.
TUB sPtRfT on rats couNoIL THE
G''4' iGBMRERs. Xxi - 81
Let a. next look for o little while n
the action which this council. IA Inost
likely 20 Adopk OF course no man can
foEetell with, certainty what u In The
future. NeyerthelBss7 we have ut our
command cottaln things which may be
acpepted az .lndioRtlng tho BpIflt Of the
body. The first IL the character OF the
men who are 70 perform thelr several
patts 10 the council. The private CHAR
aoter Of the present Pope 10 generally
conceded 10 DO good. lie 10 thus hon-
orally distinguished from some OF hIs
pred ceesors, But In bis religious vleWh
he is.a thorough blgot, and they again
lean strongly. In favor OF what 10 known
as INSTRUMENTATION, or thelhigheat form
lot Ronatlistn. The men who are lila
adVlsBrs are mostly OF like lendencles.
They seem willing to array themselyes
and their church against modern civil.
zation. The Influence OF the Pope and
mn oounsellors must be great In this
body. There 10 little doubt also but
that majority OF the bishops aympa-
thlzs with them. w- -.
PRRoEDINa EvRNTa. So,
The second thing which indicates the
action likely 10 be taken 10 the chain or
events BY which IL has been preceded,
The frat OF these was the proclamation
OF the dogma OF the Immaculate Con.
oeptIOn OF the Virgin Mary, on the an.
niVersary Of which the council meets.
She 10 likely 10 be specially honofed,
Il iS even thought by some That o new
dogma, her assumption or bodily tax
Ing up TO heaven, may be decfeed,
Again, the proclamation ofthe ImmacS
ulate Conception by the Pope Without
0 council was q new thing In the his
tory Of papal pretenSion. II was vIrtu.
ally the assertion OF the Pope's person.
al iutallibillty'in matters OF doctrine.
Il 10 thought that this claim will either
be facility admitted or passed upon BY
the council. r. .I =
TIE RNcYoLIoAL OF 1904.
But The main subject Of consid Iteration
will be the relation OF the Romish
church to some OF the leading chsrac.
lerlsLlUs OF modern civilization, This
has been clearly foTeshAdoWed BIZ the
Encyclioal letters OF the Pope. The iol.
lowingji liz atliextrAct from that Of De.
oember 9Th, 1884. From y translation
Ia the British Quarterly. See the whole
document In Appleton'a Annual Cyclo.
pedia for 1854, Art. Pub. Doc.l
'You are not Ignorant, most venera,
bic brethren, that there are, In the nre.
sent day, many men who apply 70 civil
society the abBurd and 4impions prIn-
cipleB OF naturallRm, who dare to sRy
that good government and civil pro.
gress demand that B0olety should be
constituted and ruled altogether apart
from religion, as II there were no such
thing, or ct least, ignoring any DIFF
ference between the true religion and
those which are false. Further. In de-
llRnce Of the doctrine OF the Bible. Of
the Church, and the Holy Fathers,
these men do not shrink from declaring
that the best government Ia that which
does not recognize is obligation to re.
press by legal penalties the violations
OF Catholic law except when the public
demands II. Setting out
from this absolutely false Idea Of social
government, they hesitate not 10 adopt
that erroneous opinion so fatal 10 tie
Catholic Church and the salvation OF
soatls, lOhich cur predecessor GTeoorv
XVI, Of blessed memory, characterized
as madness; IL is this, that liberty of
conscience and Of tO0TShip Is the TfqhE Of
epery hIGnIdN being; that L ouoht to DO
proclaimed aud secured 6y tho Luw Of
every we'll constituted State, and nat
eUery citizen should be at ftlli liberty 10
cypress publicly his opinions, Whdtcver
they may be, by 0ord Of mouth, In print
or otherwise, SUittott being subject 10 anu
ttnlttattdn from Tho civiL or ecclesiastical
p0toer; but In making these rash asser.
lions they do nOtoonslder that they are
preaching the liberty OF perdItion, and
that II human opinion Is allowed
license to question everything, there
will never be wanting men who will
dare TO resist the truth, and place their
confidence In the words which mans
wisdom teacheth; q most deadly and
psrnicious error which Christian faith
and wisdom ought carefully 10 avoid,
according to the teaching OF our Lord
Christ himself" iI '0T'r m N
In the syllabus appended by the Pope
to this Encyolical he pronounced his
anathema,s shat 10, he solemnly and
othclally stlgmatizsd rs cursed, q large
number OF propositions OF which the
following are examples: 0-f[
'Ath.-That the Church has no right
to use oompulsion; It has no temporal
power, direct orlndlreot. 7'' 3 =
'65th.-ThAt the Church ought 10 be
separate from the Stale and the Slate
from the Church. %
'74th'-That matrimonial causes and
relations belong to civil society. ~.
7s77th.-That in our time 1t Is useless
70 regard the Catholic religion as The
only State religion TO the exclusion OF
every other mode otWorshlp. 9Ial
~ '76th.-ThRt the law 10 rlght,whlch. in
certain Catholic countries provides for
foreign residents the enjoyment OF
their own peculiar forms OF worship.
'80th.-That the Pope might and
ought 70 put himselfin accord with the
progress, liberalism ahd modern clylll-
ZAuon,' 81 II fl'T A.. Hu.
COMMON SCHOOLS. .....
These now are the kind OF subIects
which are 10 be considered. The great
object Of the council ls "a far az possible
to restore the old order OF things in
Austria, Italy and Spain, which have
recently burst the shackles Of the