The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-20

o his main attack on our centre. Infallib;,;t
> does not reside in any individual bishor
first because no bishop, save perhaps job,
l Tue raster ever pretended to any sucl
claim, and, secondly, because no bisho,
can decide controversy touching ques
ton OF dogma, of his individual authority
Disputes will spring up in the Church a,
well as in the State, but the State nova.
days has summary method of silencine
} disputes which the Church, as Jealous OF
the rights OF reason as she is of those OF
revelation, never would, even if she could,
adopt. These disputes have to be referred
70 nlgher tribunal. To invoke the au-
thorlty of bishops disseminated Ia Gallican,
out, In English, very unclassical word, \
throughout the universe, would be O most
amusing absurdity, but for the one t,ifina
lnconvenience of it's being pantheistic,
which makes it, singularly impious. A
oishop is, in the Church, mere relative,
just as relative is in grammar; he holds
for his Jurisdiction under higher power,
to the paramount domain of which, in all his
authoritative writings, he acknowledges
hlmself subject. He is relative, a unit,
and any number of relatives or units mul.
tipiied cannot give us the ABSOLUTE. Still
we need something absolute, something
certain. We have a soul of our own to
save, and outside of it's salvation we have
no concern in life.
A general or Ecumenica1 Council NAV
give us this absolute gertrude we need. |
But general council can decide nothing
binding on you or me, without the appro-
baton and sanction of higher power.
There is one fact in ecclesiastical history
which has not been sufficiently noticed by
Che able men who have written latterly Oh
the prerogatives of the Holy See. The
Fourth General Council assembled at Chal-
,edon. 1t was convened to discuss tho
Eutichean, or Monophysite, heresy. The
Fathers were all unanimous in the formu-
OF faith they drew up: anathcmas, ,,
nnumerabie almost, were hurled contra G
'o'nnes c0ntradicentes the business of the Il
;ouncll was seemingly at its close, till the q
egate OF the Apostolic See arrived. He y
resented the act Of faith of Leo tile Great, 81
he belief of the universal Church, and the Ia
'ouncil OF Chalcedon threw it's ink-smeared l.,
archment into the fire. sf
BY the process of exclusion we have W
lown that infallibility can exist nowhere g
atslde OF the Sovereign Pontiff. Of the a
resent Sovereign Pontiff, his trials, vexa- ST
ons and manifold annoyances, we have Dc
either the time nor the heart to speak. q,
e claim for the Pope simply inerrancy =
hen he tells us that the corporation of
al he io fho se |
cps the deposit Of faith intact, and he is y
nseif the utterance of the voice of Him
whom he is the successor and vicegerent.
Q have said something already about
'rds-so we are not afraid of contradic- N
n. The Pope is, in speaking as Pope,1
simple echo of that Word, which
'kes, quickens, guides, enlightens every
3 of US coming into this world. Wei
ert, and all Catholics assert with us
N the Febronian John Dellinger not
epted-that the Pope cannot teach any,
ng wrong or erroneous in faith or NOR
And what more do we wantf Those
disagree with us in religion claim a
} privilege for their spiritual teachers.
lday after Sunday they listen expen-
'ly, if they have pew, to mere man,
} either claims infallibility, or disclaims
If he claims it, why he is the Pope in
son, and if he does not claim it, he is
imposter, who obtains money on false
,ences.
word to newspapers before we close.
h the Ptcdyune we could have no quar- IRIS
the Picayune has followed us and been
soiace in all aur peregrinations. We
. accommodated the Picayune as the
st secular paper in the South, and have
elf found, since we have become N.Y.
l-head to it, very little in it's columns
hich we could object. A writer in it
d us some names -latterly, which,
cring as they may be, we assure him
re not deserving Of We share it's grief
le trreparable loss it recently has sus-
I'd. In the death ofSamuel F. Wilson,
anity has lost one of it's noblest sos ..
linens, society an ornament, literature NH.
brilliant light, ourself arr
ed friend-Levis I'LL SIT terra. Vt
wspapers in general talk too much
things they know nothing of. They
1t keep before their eyes the important Geo.
pit of Horace, whom nowadays it is
'ential to quote as it was when we were Two
hool to quote Diogenes Laertuis, ne e ebs la
ultra crepidams. This maxim will save gold pr
ny mishap, for in giving advice where In Of
Dneallad for