The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-06-12
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n Less0W to tstosmem.-Cousidering the aotusl
e nes ,Da sgp v.Ss Of
God iH tho calm tranquility with which the
Vatican Council 'pursuos it, labors. Enemies
who would gladly combine together against It
"our own correspondentsT afe Silent, or speak
with unwonted moderation. They seem weary
Of recording "5acts" which are alvey contra
dlled The threatened interferenceof tho civil
governmental to abandoned. Tho world looks
on ona w ass folded arms, sallen and Perple1ed,
No sceepos that q formed agaisss sase shaH pros.
Per. n. Dsru probably makes tho same reaec-
ton. Count Darn, says the Epiourean cor
" stranded by bis Roman ns.' dispatch, ' Which which
vastly displeased his own. moderate clerical
party, and pleased no other" ct tn Brute!
Switzerland and the Coancil.-The Plus Tercin
address to the Holy Father which It is i'm
possible to read without pleasure and consola-
ton. 1--WE wish to declare to you, Most Holy
Father," they say, how much we love our
arc devoted to him in heart and soul. Your
joys are our joys: your griefs our griefs your
sufferings our sufferings. We
havatoo much confidence in the Divine pro-
miset to doubt an instant the help of God and
the intervention of the Holy Spirit in the de-
cisions of the Council. If it should please the
Council to new definition, by the proclama-
ton of your doctrinal infallibilitt, we shall
say from the bottom of our hearts, with ala
the true children of the Church Rome has
spoken. Such is, such will be, and such ever
has been, the doctrine and constant practice
Of the whole Catholic Church. = May
live long to enjoy it! In the day of your coro-
nation men uttered in your presence this wish:
Et rideas amos Petri! This wish, by rare
from being So" 80
The Orleams Priests-We quoted lately the
address Of three Orleans parish priests to Plus
TX. in which they solicited the definition of
Pontifical infallibility. The Gazette do France
the Holy Father. They had no right to address
the Pontiff, and he had still less ri xht to ap-
prove their address. Such is now the language
France thinks" says the Unirers, "that Mgr.
Dupanloup is infallible, and that priests of his
diocese have no right to defend against his
man Church and Of tho Sovereign Pontiff."
But the ex-Catholic and ex-legitimist journal
goes further, and insinuates that the Briefs
recently ..ss issued by Plus TX are violation of
Council" Mgr. Dupanloup may lawfully dis
Pnte the divine prerogatives of the Pope, but
his clergy must not presume to profess their
for doing 80 fails in all his duties towards Mgr.
Dupanloup" The Bishop of Orleans is unf5r-
tunate in his advocates. and as to their rage
cit is quite natural" observes the Umiuers,
that men who have no respect for the Head
of the Church should have none for priests
whom no fears can restrain from defending his
rights"
Journalistic Climar-In the Pail Mall Ga
sette of the 18th, we find fragment from their
Roman correspondent which recalls the SUBJ
he OF tRs ss aeputssicn fol
dogma, and author Of the Syllabus, has passed
over tothe Opposition" The fact, he remarks,
no doubt and Where bis stesnsi1s
ear "caught the echo as it fell" We are not
surprised 70 hear that when the Holy Father
beard Of this detection, che was seized with
shock, be told the erring Cardinal 80 go on q
tour for the benefit Of his health" It does not
seem g that he has started yet, but perhaps he
patti has gone overalso, while Cardinal Mari
schini"-there is no such person, but that
only makes Ike the story more imprsssive-and ''a
the Pope to abandon his design" Perhaps we
shall some day read in the Pail Mall Gasette,
and 1t will be quite as true, that Mr.. Gladstone
has become "Head-Centre" among the Fee
mans, and that the Queen has sent Lord Clar-
endon to Madagascar " for the benefit of his
The French Jesaits-The members of the So
ciety of Jesus in France speak at this crisis,
as might be expected, with no stammering
voice. In the Efudes Religieuses &c., for the
present month we find such passages as the
decrepit or suPerannuated things that the
Vatican Council is occupied. II Is on account
of the future especially that it approaches at |
this moment certain questions which are not |
indeed agreeable to all the world, but which |
are firing, thank God, since it 10 impossible to |
touch them without exciting q profound emo |
tion In all ranks of society, Catholic not, in
These questions will shortly be |
decided by the Council. They will be for the |
salvation of vast number of souls, for the |
confirmation of the faith, for the welfare of the
Church. Who among us can doubt it 2 Mad
indeed must he be, even humanity speaking,
who can esteem his own prudence greater than
that OF the Catholic Episcopate, having at it's
head the Bishop of Bishops, OF who should find |
1t difficult to obey if the Council should impose
npon our faith as defined doctrine what it al
ready embraced as o certain Catholic truth.
1t Is q Catholic truth said Suarez, shat |
the Sovereign Pontiff, defining er cathedTa, that
is to say proposing to the whole Church any,
thing to be believed with divide faith, is a rule
y Jd'th sohtch canxot eyr-qaG errare aon potest
This is taught at tho present. time by all Cath
bio Doctors, apd hold 1t to be certain with
the certainty OF faith.'
He who should dare, after this, to maintain
that this Catholic trnth cannot be defined by
The Council Of the Vatican, would only prove,
70 say no more. his own arrogance and levity
of miBd; and he who should venture to add
hat, having the power of defining, It ought
rot to use it, would claim for himself an au-
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