The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-07-17

49, IL possible ScAism destructive of
- bsauteous, yet adamantine, structure. I
al their caviling, their falsi-
!casons g history their TIT; m, s ths;
nvcntaons Of scandalous reports about the !
soanon and its members, their efforts to
janont dissensions among the prelates and
eaaousies between the several Orders OF
Ihe Regular clergy. They charge his Holt
-, Pius TX, with dictatoriai pride, or
~ With being the plant tool of the
Jesuita. They pretend that there is want
a freedom In the deliberations of the
Council. They affect to think that upon q
fair discussion the dogma would be pro
uounced erroneous. To hear them talk
one would think them seriously desirous TO
eee the Ecumenical Council reject the pro-
posed definition.
Theatruth is they desire the very con-
txary. The members of the Council who |
oppose the definition are undoubtedly sim
cefe, but their external adherents and
alice cot on different but unacknOwledged
motive. While they write and speak, abuse
and slander, intrigue and vociferate to dis
credit the dogma and it's venerable advo-
Gates, they secretly desire, not in a spirit
Of truth, but from false and malicious in
tens, that it may be solemniy defined and
Why this duplicityS Plainly to create
aissension and discord within the Church.
AZ soon as they saw that there were CathO-
lilo prelates who opposed the dogma, their
malice at once suggested the hope that this
opposition might be aggravated into posi-
have practiced to envenom the debate, to
corrupt public opinion, to excite fear of
usurpatiOn and oppression, and hatter the
ambition of restless spirits by the Elusive
prospect of erecting new church outside
Of that which is founded on the Rock.
With more perspicacity than was pos
eessed by the few opponents inside the
Church, her outside adversaries saw plainly
chat the dogma of infallibility was as old
"a the Church herself, and would certainly
.Be defined. So they set to work with Ma
Of o falling away. They contested the
dogma itself on rational and historical
grounds. They accused the Papacy of oc-
casional heresy. They raised appreheE-
siOns Of some deep and terrible dot against
humanity, the rights Of man, liberty, civili-
xation, progress, and the like. They raised
z . hue and cry in every way calculated to
excite, popular prejudice. Their expecta
tion ID thiss that when the definition of in
4allibility is pronounced, q great detection
from the Church willstake place.
Never was such q great expectation built
upon 80 small foundation. The dogma of
infallibility will be no new thing in the
creed of those who have been truly men,
bers of the Catholic Church, and as to those
who are indeed, notwithstanding their
pretensions, only nominal members, their
reflections would, from the nature of things
amount to nothing. They do not care
much about the matter onetway or the
other. They are diluted in the insipii
waters of sndiferentism. Noparty, NO sec
was ever formed of such materials. The.
may 60 astray. they may desert, but if the!
do, it will not be to rally around any othe
hammer. Even were few master spirit
among the opponents of infallibility to tr.
10 form party, all their efforts to recruit
active adherents must fail. They viii
hear many setting them on or applaudin
them, but find none to follow them or t
: enlist in their company. II indeed the
make recruits, it will be only for destruct
i've purposes. All the infide1 and liberal
istic enthusiasts will help them to &C
against the Church, but in any work q
Faith, any Affirmative measure, any recon
struction, they will have no assistanc
- whatever. The reason is that they who's
faith 10 weak, have no zeal. They love
: .philosophize and discuss, but not to worl
I'm fact it is not faith that they have, br
only opinions. Such MS these do no wor
of God, bear no fruit. They only multipl
have no life in themselves, and Therefore
through q series of dissolutions, must
last, ,if they do not return to the unity
- the Church, 60 to swell the retinue of Nj
terialism.
1t is very apparent that those who woul
al 0AOW 81 hpP1O Va AioSOA0 AnSo sho VI "
and who cunniDgly attempt to divide th
they may conquer US, are indeed discordaI
and divided among themselves. There ar
Z 6rst, the inopportunists in the Council
self; secondly, the arrogant literary the
logians, ambitious of popularity; third
the quasi Catholics, who would like Il
name and appearance of religion witho'
its obligations; fourthly, those who a
silly enough to think that they can Der
the immutable truth of God to suit tt
Protean variations and demands of world
philosophy hfthly, the thousand Protes
- ant secte; sixthly, the indifferentist
Seyenthly, the sceptics, infidels and re-
radicals. Surely these will fall into Co
fusion themselves, before they can stir I
any disorder or cause any schism in Il
Catholic Church.
Knowing what they want. and that the
Christianity is only mask we smile
their noisy agitation, their reckless int
medHaling, their false reports, their fict
t4fious zeal. Their efforts to dissolve Cath
Lie unity are. not only vain but ridiculou
AZ is they who will be dispersed. Doub
less, ere this is published, the Council w
Haye made the definition, and his Holine
have approved it. Then, after few ga
vanic throes, the +" fallibilists" will retul
\ TO their original heterogeneous element
and the clouds they formed will vanish,
leave the atmosphere of the Church clei
and serene before the delighted eyes of IL
1aithfnl and true.
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