The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-27
CHRONICLES OF THE COUNCIL.

writer in the Rerne du Monde CGfh0taque Oh tne
s ss,vsM N. bafond, ITO Mgr. Mermiilod, a manu-
script of st. Francis of Sales, which discoy-
exists among other documents communicated
| to Alexander VII, himself member OF the
Chigi family, when he canonized the saintA
This manuscripts, which treats of the preroga-
tives of St. Peter, has been printed, but Mgr.
Mermillod has made a curious discovery. st:
Francis Of Sales says very plainly; ~ nous taMt
an eonf,atear permanent ct iata,ano.eawe na t,s
| which shall be permanent and infallible. In
the Paris editions they have quietly suppressed
the word intal1ible! The Bishop OF Hebron has
grapheds W. have heard Of a certain school
they call "adaptations" of the writings of the
saints, in which anything contrary to their
own opinions is omitted. We do not blame
that Gallicans should deliberately mutilate the
| teaching of saint, and one SO dear to France
| and to the Church, in order to conceal his tes-
sive fact in the history of that school, and q
curious revelation of its real character.
English, Irish and Spanish Bishops in the Conn
ciL-The writer to whom we owe the anecdote
speaks of some in whom we have q special in
terest. " / have visited several English Bish-
ops" he says, and found them lodged in cells
like seminarsts, at the English College Of st.
the progress which the faith continues to make
in their country. The Irish Bishops are mis-
sionaries in their island, in America, in Aus
tralia, everywhere. heard the Arch bishop of
Tours propose to confer upon Ireland the title
of the nation Of Apostles. The Spanish Bsh-
cps excite eur by merit, fearh-
longer receive anything from their Govern
ment. You see them on foot in the streets, ex-
posed to sun and rain, draped in their ample
violet cloaks and wearing on their heads the
peaked sombrero, lined with green. Mgr. Garcia
Gil, Archbishop of Sarragossa, is lodged at the
Dominican Convent of the Minerva, like a
the Spanish school, as Mgr. Aonescillo. Bishop
of Jaen, who is also lod ged at the Minerva, is
its great orator. Mgr. Blanco, Dominican,
and Bishop of Avila, is the most eminent Tho
called the Bishop of st. Theresa, that saint
whom Spain calls its docto,a, and whom paint
ers depict with the pen and bonnet of a doctor.
The "4uqsburg Gasete."-Mgr Hefele and
Mgr. Won Ketteler have found it necessary to
publish a statement with reference to docu-
ments which have appeared in the Augsburg
| Gazette. 1--WE can neither speak" says the
Bishop of Rottenburg, of what the Schenata
contains, nor of anything which is said by the
| orators in the General Congregations. But it
| is evident that there are people, not Bishops
but having relations with the Council, who are
not restrained by duty and conscience.
The memorial of certain number of German
| and Austrian Bishops against the definitions of
Infallibiity ought not to have been published
before it was presented to the Holy Father. l
| myself, who signed it, could not obtain a copy
OF it. Yet what has happened! Before the
address was sent to the Vatican, it was printed
| in the newspapers, need not say to our great
displeasure: and to this day we know not how
| it was done. 1t is probable that the
auri sac,i flames has something to do with it."
The Bishop of Mayence also protests against
I" the systematic dishonesty of the correspond
| ent of the -4ugsbu,y Gazette" " 1t is pnre in
vention," he observes that the Bishops named
| in that journal declared that Dollinger repre-
scented, as in the substance of the question, the
opinion of majority of the German Bishops"
And this, the German preiate adds, ." is not an
sists in the daily attempt to publish false news,
with the object of deceiving the German pub
lie, according to plan concerted beforehand.
1t will be necessary one day to expose
in all their nakedness and AFFECT mendacity
the articles of the -4ngsbmrg Gazette. They will
present formidable and lasting testimony of
the extent of the injustice of which party men,
who effect the semblance of superior education,
have been guilty against the Church"
The Last Hours Of the Opposition.-The Roman
correspondent of the Paris Onion reports that
February, the principal orators addressed to
the opposition some salutary truthsP One
prelate, he is informed, observed that I" it was
time to tear away the veil under which its
operations wese shrouded," and which the new
regulation, devised to check exorbitapt and I'M
profitable discussion, will tend to battle. The
journals of the party, obedieut to their instruc-
tons, already cry out against the pretended
!
peal to another Council. Like Professionals,
| they would like to see o Council COMPOSED ex-
clusvely of themselves and their confederates.
| The existing one, they have discovered, since
! the intentions of the majority have been so
plainly announced, is not worthy of their obe-
dience. 'lit Rome," says the writer in the
Union, and all of our own correspondents say
| the same " they trouble themselves very little
| about what have related to you. They have
| not the slightest donbt of the final and defini-
| tive triumph of truth. Even they who were
disposed to accept a compromise become every
day fewer in number. They all feel that
clear and explicit affirmation of the infallibili-
| ty of the Pope has now become an absolute
necessity. The French Bishops, whose names
| to the definition, are far from being gratifed
| by this publicity Several of them are afflicted
| and disconnected by it beyond measure" 1t is
| evident that we may await the end with tran
| quill minds. Whether it be next week or next
| year, it ecan only be the triumph of eternal
| truth
| Abbe Grahy.-In q document, dated at Rome
on the 10Th of February, Mgr. Ress, Bishop of
Strasbourg, in whose diocese Able Gratrv ex-
ercised the sacred ministry for some years. has
prom algated sentence which will be accepted
beyond the limits of his own jurisdiction.
"The language" of the Able Crafty, the Bish-
op tells the clergy and people of his diocese,
resembles that of heretics at all times and in
all places" His letters display the same AFRO
CANT pretention and false illuminism, and
abound in the same outrages against ecclesias-
teal authority, as those of Luther John
Knox. The Bishop condemns those letters
false and scandalous, injurious to the Holy
Roman Church; opening the way to errors
| already condemned by the Sovereign Pontiffs,
temerarious, and tainted with heresy." He
forbids the clergy and laity of his diocese " to