The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-10
Papal Infallibility-No.4
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VIZ" e"Aclentiy, and, until we o.
in Taught better by those who think it ia the
es only destiny, as rationalists do, to be vel
in oehaved brutes, satisfactorily proved 8
III originating in the loss of Ideal UNITY. an
q, tn's loss being the necessary result, as la
d "een said, OF the predominance of yariet,
j. over unity, OF the sensible over the intelli
= siole, OF matter, in q word over mind ".
: may feel safe in asserting that our pronos;.
q zion, with which we brought the last art;.l.
3 VI 'nis series to close, namely, "that the
5 onurcn IS the successive reconstruction of
t 1ne primitive and natural unity Of man.
Aino' cannot be, without somewhat of
'ehefley, gainsaid. This reconstruction ia
ene'reiy spiritual; its object is, the society
u 'hee'ilgences, of mind under the presi-
uency OF the ideal principles If the ORR
qua. plan OF nature had not been spoiled
~ Tue original transgression, the moral
| unity of the human family would have .c-
companied it's material unity ,vb;o,, 49,
'.on, phSsicai generation, and the growth
al 'ne various branches of the human
,amiiy from one common stock. The know
ieuse OF IDEAL truth would have been trans.
ni1'ed' along with natural existence. from
ia'ner to son; education would have don.
1oi NINA what generation does for matter
anu moral life would have been propagated
""efe'er organic rational life could ex;st
nue the harmony of all creation bo,;,
oeen disturbed, and sense bav;nn ,o4 .I
0e',er OF understanding. the material order q
,loAo loose from the moral order; and this +
''uef' deprived of its legitimate sovereion- r
~ nad' Tor many dark age, to withdraw ii
''' one httie spot on earth, while it's sen. +,
oous rival managed to set itself in n nos;- p.
on oi antagonism with the economy of II
.e universe. The redintegation of man.
~ eo"id not be effected in the natural w.
~. u creation, nor its Reconstructed ,f
NY DC perpetuated by the mere propay,. h..
'n OF corporal life; our natural gen.r, -.
=" 'fo" Adam proved a failure by result m,
) eventually In the dismembermeut of in.
race; our regeneration must. conse- ~,
en'iy' De OF spiritual character. and wb
second birth the effect of gratuitops An
c"on. Election is, with regard to tho br,
~ what generation is with regard to tho ,e
~; hence In those forms of government t;v,
lch are least imperfect we find the elect, 70,
principle allied with or substitntad for
editary succession. This noble princ;n,. tho
.,..;.. "'' sne world by the first clai
'i"'ioh maze to fallen man in the re- dert
JUS oispensatIon, and it modified with f.s+
1nopportunely destroying the contrary tho,
ciple. Grace itself is always an cleo ono
; and the human choice, which dis. 81
unnoses W. ' 'nu IS founded on them ing
IMPOSES an anterior divine cboice on5
reoy the gifts of nature and grace ara t.r,,
lnally distributed in accordance with no -,
mysterious decree by which the DIES. sat;,
are regulated. actu;
+,,o "'sh TWO human kind
, 'ne one OF nature, the other of grace.
, sprung from one man, spread and
ided successfully but the natural Frs
having lost all moral unity, is mult;- the 1
ny means OF generation, whereas the the G.
's!!ined race is propagated by election. presel
MAINTAINS the spiritual unity which is of the
Nciusive privilege. The first is n ma Brogli
society, composed of bodies. rather a fonr
Oh souls, since it lacks the integrity of given
eai principle. The second is a shirt should
oc;otr . $500, 40 sPfAI- gard t.
~ SoohcH OF 1ntelllgences Or Pope t
"a by ideal truth, and closely united these
, comDact borr,.. ~ drawa
,. CONFORMATION. finance
sprung from the same individual and very .u
successfully through the three fold NIX Ike 1T
Ell OF the family, the nation and the to imI
'aCe OF nations: both advance towards G th
and future universally, from which tio s al
ire yet far distant. Both are pro- sure, al
o anu start from individual unity tn hensior
universal unity. Unity is their be- compile
9, and unity must be their end dogmat
In the direction they take towards THE
of the Ideal far above and poated {
them, they both are necessarily in nm most oa
'ct, for the natural lacks the unitv pers, an
to the elect race, and the elect sia t ina hat
as yet but a portion of that her
US not possess all the variety pre- m se 10,
OF the natural. But when each has menting
It's course, they will mingle TO- ing to be
ana either complete the other. treated y
order of time the natural will be- only was
SO the elect race, and thus b bmt t th
, the primitive unity of our species edly host
'rouSht to its ultimate perfection score w nnd
human race, reconstructed SUPER sistence il
:, Is the Church, which. accord;nr strated fal