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ty, as the term is used in the great on.
troversy now going on in the Cathol ic
Church, ANYBODY means infal libility in
matters secular, such a. the money mar
ket and the best route for railway.
Your correspondent in yesterday 8
evening Post should know that we do
not thus confound things essentially
different.
When, for example, the Pope de-
clares that church and state ought to
be united. that the church should use
force as MOhammed did to make con-
verts to its religion, that il should pun
ish herctics by temporal penalties--fire
and sword and the hangman's rope are
not excepted-when he makes it the
duty of Catholics, whenever they find
themselves in the majority so to change
the constitution of the state as to
bring in all these enormities-then,
with all our respect for the personal
character Of Plus IN and all our rev.
erance for his high station, we fling
back into his lap the document in
which he proclaims these horrible doc
trines-his Syllabus. as the frightful
list is called-and we say to the Cath
olic world, ''See TO what consequences
those are brought who insist on the
personal infalliblitv of the Pope"
We disown them with Indignation. we
repel them with horror we appeal to
the Church universal against this usur-
patton of personal infallibility We ap-
peal to the Church at large because it
Is imbued with the humane and toler-
ant spirit of the age, against the pre-
tensions of weak and plant old man
who has fallen under the fatal influence
Of the Jesui,s, and dreams of restoring
the days when popes set up and de
posed princes and abrogated laws at
their good pleasure, when the Inquisi-
ton WAS n part of their machinery to
suppress heresy. and heretics were
burned alive in the name of God, and
the murder was called an act OF faith"
When. again, we are told by the
Pope that the education Of the young
ought to be in the hands of the Cath
Ollie priests, who are To teach them the
revolving doctrines of his Syllabus, of
which | have spoken already, and when
he sends out his cIaissiaries commits
stoned To- overthrow the admirable sys-
tem of public education adopted with
such excellent effect in the United
states. and seeking To substitute
system the necessary effect Of which
would I've 10 make bigots Of large part
Of our population.and introduce hatred
and aversion in place of the tolerant
regard which the different religious de
nominations have for each other-when
We hear Of this. we see new reason to
protest against the doctrine Of person
ri infallibilitv a an attribute Of the
Pope.
But whether the dogmu of Papal
lnfalIlbilitv b. proclaimed by the Coun-
cil or not will make no difference with
the greater part of the Catholic clergy
Of the | ntrd States. who. am sorry
to say. are for the most part ultramon-
tanes. utterly isliberal and the bond
servants of the Pope. 10 the Catho-
he clergy of France and Germany the
decision of the Council is of the great
est Importance. If it be as the Pope
wishes. it will place them in position
OF great embarrassment. They must
accept the dogma. or deny that the
Council is properly convened and CON
stituted. But 10 the Catholic clergy
of this country. it can make no differ
ence. They are committed to the Pope's
personal nfalibility, and will obey his
command to bring about union Of
church and state, and the punishment
Of herctics by severe temporal penal-
ties, or they will be false to their own
professions. T..