The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-06

temf Answer: No; il there never had
been council at Jerusalem, the Catho-
lie Church would and cosld hold gen.
eral councils. On this head the sermon
says "the Apostles have left no success
ors." Here then is o difficulty. The
Apostolic Council of Jerusalem passed
law forbidding Christians to eat
straagled meat or blood" That law
does not bind now. Who abolished it 7
No .po'oer inferior TO that of the apostles
could annal their decree. Who authorizes
us now to eat rare beefsteaks and blood
puddings if there is no Apostolic power
in the Church to dispense from the ordi-
nanance Of theApostolic synod of Jeru-
salem r . .gssl.-s r.
The priests and laity are not represented
IN General Councils. Answer: The Uni.
rerse, Catholic journal of Paris, in its
issue of November 81, gives list of
three hundred and serenity priests and ldy-
men aud Others not exercising episcopal
Jurisdiction who will assist at the delib-
CITATIONS of the approaching Council.
Some of the cardinals who will be most
Influential in itare only priests. Cardi.
nal Barnabo, head of the Propaganda,
70 oHiy piio1t1 sSaIuiual autODelll Is
only deacon. The sermon contradicts
itself. 1t says that there were at the
opening of the Council of Trent "fre
generals of orders and the imperial com
ntissiOHers." These were not bishops.
The sermon contradicts itself again. 1t
says that the first eight councils "were
convoked bJ the emperor" that all but
two of them "were presided over by the
emperor or his commissioner and that
the DEGREES of the first three "were rati-
fed by the same civil dignitary." Surely
this is lay representation with q ven-
geance. How then can it be true that
mo mere priest can sit in o General
Council and that the brethren have no
voice theref
The counciiis not general because Prot
estants and Greek schismatics tcill not be
represented in It, Answer: Was the late
General Assembly of Presbytsrians de-
fective because the Episcopalians and
Catholics .wefe not represented there :
General Grant docs not represent the
chief executive power of the United
States, because a million of powerful
minority voted against him. All the
laws of the United States made during
the war were invalid, because the So
cessionists we're not represented in Con-
gress. Suchds the logic of the sermon.
The Reformation was an unjustifiable
religious secession. The Catholic
Church will admit her rebellious chill
dren to citizenship if they agree to take
the oath Of allegiance. By very re-
cent letter of the Pope to Archbishop
Manning, tublished in last weeks
Catholic Mirror, full opportunities are
afforded to Protestants to present their
views aud objections to the Council.
This letter is later than the one alluded
to in the sermon. The Pope is polite.
He invites his disobedient children to
listen to him. The Presbyterians are
not courteous. The Catholics feel quite
hurt that they were not invited to the
funeral OF the Old and New School in
the late General Assembly!
There is no liberty Of discussion in the
Catholic Church or in general councils.
Answer: The history of the Council of
Trent is one of continual discussion.
On last Thanksgiving Day Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, one of the ablest Prot.
estant ministers in the country, said
that the Catholic Church was like "a
tenement house, there were so many
families in it, always quarreling and
disputing.n The sermon was reported
in the Tribane. Whom are we to believe,
Brother Fisher or Brother Beecheri
The Popes syllabus is opposed to liberty
of conscience and a free press. Answer
The Pope is opposed to that liberty of
the press which is more properly called
licentiousness. The Pope, like all
COED Christians, does not wish papers
like the Police Gazette and the Days
Doing8 to circulate in families. The
syllabus is opposed to works like Edgar's
Variations" which contains a lie and
q calumny on every page. Did not the
government of our own Republic sup
press newspapers when they became
dangerous to the commonwealth Yet
we have freedom, and even licentious-
ness, of the press. The syllabus is op.
posed to that liberty of conscience
which wants polygamy and socialism.
So is our government and all good Chris.
tians.
The syllabus condemn, the separation of
Church and State. Answer: The Pope
condemns the separation of religion and
civil society. So do all Presby terians.
The Catholic Church would condemn
to morrow any man who would teach
that the separation between Church
and State, as existing here, is contrary
to divine or ecclesiastical law. So she
condemns those in Europe who teach
that the union of Church and State in
SEINE Christian countries is contrary to
revelation, or to divine or ecclesiastical
law. She must live with all forms of
civil government, for she is Catholic.
This accusation against the Church
comes with bad grace from disciple of
the Kirk by law established in Scotland,
or a son of the prosecuting religious
dictator OF Geneva.
The Catholics are opposed 10 public
schools. Answer: The Catholics are
opposed to infdel schools, but not 10
public education. Catholics hold that
religion is at least of az much impor-
tance to the child as arithmetic, spell
ing and grammar. Five millions Of
Catholics are taxed in the United States
for the support of schools to which they
cannot conscientiously send their chill
dren. Thus the poor boys of our paro-
,chial schools can point their finger at
the we'll dressed common school chill
dren and say, "our poor parents edu.
cate those fellows, while their rich
fathers pay nothing for u.s." Is this
fsiri Is it fattering to nom Catholic
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The Catholic Church i, opposed 10 the
nineteenth century. Answer: The Catho-
lie Church is the most lire religion in
existence; witness its progress, the zeal
and activity of its members in the Uni.
ted States and even In the city of
Wheeling. Witness the General Council
which is going TO be the largest and the
grandest ever held. Over twelve hun
dred representatives of the Catholic
Church will assemble next Wednesday
in the Vatican st Rome and teach the
nineteenth century its duties. There
never was q more learned assembly in
the world or one more up TO thespirit Of
the age.
Now / conclude If the gloomy and
terrific dogma of Jonn Calvin be true,