The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-07-26

lhcr non E'srOI worship are q
glory to the citizens. Indeed,
everything about the city demonstrates
the positive assurance that in Cincinnati
you can gather the fuest congregation of
Israelitcs in America"
What does the Dogma of I%nfaiiibiiity
Impar!
Outside of the council Ercumenical-
which seems to have been called, more
than for any other one thing, to act upon
this dogma-it Is not known what has
been, or could be said in its favor. And
since reticence is positively e%njoined up
on all the members out of the council, it
is not probable that the arguments for
and against it will be made public. 1t
would be a matter Of great curiosity to
Protestants, as well as to intelligent
Catholic Priests and laity at large, to
learn what the Pope has had to urge in
its favor, or what was urged by intelligent
fathers against it.
Suppose the Pope is infallible, what Is
affected by it? Intelligent men, whose
learning and judgment would certainly be
respected by the most intelligent Catho-
lies, understand it to signify a decided APP
probation of all acts of the Pope, both past
and future. Many acts Of the Pope,
stretching far back on the page of his
tory, have been regarded by papists as
weak and foolish, equivocal, unjust. and
in some cases even barbarous, and they
have only heen excused aa being the pc
culiarities of the age to which they be-
longed. In other words, they are allowed
to have been intollerant, and even cruel,
and without even a show of defence, but
it wa peculiar to the age.
But the claim of infallibility covers
every such act, with appreciation. The
acts of the Pope are impeaceble. Now
the most learned diyines have always af-
6rmed that moral principle cannot change,
but is the same in every age, and under
all circumstances
BY the statute law OF Great Britain
the crown is not to be held responsible
for its acts, but the legal advisors Of the
crown are responsible. With all the
caution legislation has been able to throw
around it, | doubt if all acts Of the crown
would be justified by those advisors, al
though they are held legally responsible
Until now l have not supposed that any
thing more would ever be attempted il
; favor of the Pope of Rome than is nov
l assumed for the crown. From an article
: in the New York Times of July 18th, OF
l this subject, we gather the following. al
though we do not give his words entire
, For the doetrinal significance of thi'
dogma we take the evidence of the ia
nous Jesuit theologian, Clemens Schrud
4 err. who is understood to have been con
! suited by the Pope in preparing the Sche
mata to be presented to the council. II
e a work on Roman Unity, published il
1866 the Austrian ecclesiastic shows tina
c this power must necessarily depend upol
Divine inspiration and direction, it mus
elevate all the regulations, DEGREES, an
S decisions of the Pope, into articles O
e faith whose obligation is as binding a
d that of any moral or religious truth what
= ever. In his most trivial words and &C
tons, the Pope must be looked upon a
o the Vicegerent of Christ upon earth, an
: no circumstances can be imagined unde
3 which this character will desert him. |
its retrospective character the dogma be
q comes, if possible, more formidable, TO
now that the assertion Of Leo y, in hi
bull against Luther, 1t is clear as da
that the Popes. my predecessors, hav
e never erred either in their cannons 4
n their constitutions" and that of the pres
ent Pope in his syllabus, 1.-THE Pope
have never exceeded the limits of the
: power" have been covered with the maj
j. tie of infalibility, the faithful must col
j front an awful vista of newly cannonize
historical truth. The supremacy of tn
d Pope over the Princes and rulers Of tn
Is whole world, his right to bestow kinl
8. doms, to condemn whole nations to bone
age, to forgive crimes whenever commi
le ted, to release from oaths of allegiance,
y marriage, or of any other kind whateve
$. to grant indulgences, to burn heretics-
4 these are but a few of the privileges th'
have been claimed or exercised by success
l. i've Pontifs, and which must now be a
cepted as d%ivinely approved by all GOO
re Catholics.
In its political aspect the dogma /
wolves a denial Of the principles up'
which the liberties Of all the free natioI
rs of the world are founded. 1t means Il
subsection of the temporal power to Il
spiritual and makes the hangdom of Chr.
mt sJ anonymous with the absolute rule Of
OF priest"
n This dogma was sustained by the cou
Is ell as follows Ayes-150, Nayes-s
rs, The fathers who have given their appr
d. baton, are men of ability and extensi
Ii learning, and cannot fail to foresee t
difficulties that lie in the way Of its a
%ceptance.
st We have been surprised to learn tn
the Episcopal clergy are finding excu;
'y for its adoption, if they do not frank
IA confess its %propriety. | should suppe
'er it wonld reflect unhappily upon the chur
that adopts it, and be the entering wed
n,g Of discord, disintergration and destrr
he ton. The vote was not taken until I
al ~sclavonic churches had signiied their d
lie gust, and the French and the Mays
Ter had withdrawn, and the German Univ
m sites had solemnly protested against Il
EN- article of faith.
ed This act of Papal diplomacy, sustain
u.s. as it appears chiefly to be by the itali
at Bishops, looks as if the world was rec'
he ing and the sun going backward again
TO the dial of Ahaz. NoRD HoMME.
cts "
of Misleading.
ons To The Editor Of The Register:
'pe DEAR Sir The farrago OF stu