The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-08-07
cHRoxIc1E OF THE couxc1L.

CHRoxILE OF THE COUNCIL.
The Final Vote.-On the I'd instant,
twenty-five Fathers, who had inscribed
their names, renowned their intention of
speaking, amid the murmurs of applause
from the august assembly. A wellknown
italian Prelate ia reported to have said
pleasantly, with allusion to those welcome
renunciations, that he would give twenty
thousand crowns to any one who could
produce single argument which had not
the definition. The Council seems to be of
the same opinion. On the 4th, when the
eighty secOhd General Congregation was
held, the session lasted only an hour. The
Bishops Of Oran and Civita- Vecchia spoke,
and then it was announced by the Cardinal
President that all the orators, without ex-
eeptiOn, who had announced their inten-
ton to speak, had spontaneously with
drawn their names. Among them were
Mgr. Strossmeyer, and Archbishops Hay
maid and Simon. The Archbishop of Paris,
who was the second on the list, did not
even ever ;, attend the session: at is a sure
Holy Spirit is about to speak when men
feel the necessity of keeping silence"
There are indeed abundant tokens that the
period of strife, and the war of human
opinions, and the efforts of worldly wis
dom, are over. A spirit of peace and con-
AAShSO AVASAS oNOAy WhSAos IA 4tc4tuS "a
religious joy and expectation is universal
in Rome. 1t appears to be shared even by
those who thought it their duty to oppose
for time that which they now understand
to be the will of God. 81 have seen this
week many priests OF the Diocese of Paris"
Mgr. Darboy had just addressed, with en-
phasis these words: I am not and never
hare been, opposed to the truth of the doc
trinal in1alibility Of the Sovereign Pontif.
4 haze BEEN Professor, and have taught
it. If need be, my former pupils can testify
It," They have already done SO.
Gazlican charlottesville have seen how
the " unanimous protestation" of the great
Diocese of Marseille, paternally approved
by the Head of the Church, has encounter
ed solitary reproof, and that bitter an
imadversion was addressed by their Bishop
to those by whom it was originated. A
parallel fact is recorded of another prelate
of the same school. If such incidents are
full of pain, they are also full of instruc-
ton: We take the report from the Echo
de Rome of the Sd inst. Atertain number
of Priests of the Diocese of Orleans lately
drew up an address to the Holy Father.
Anxious not to irritate their Bishop, the
most eloquent living advocate of Gallican-
ism, they resolved to send it through the
Nuncio, and thus to prevent its publication
in the journals. But they thought them
to such Of their colleagues as were like
minded with themselves. Among others
who received it was the Able Guinebaud,
a priest originally of the Diocese of Blois,
but who for ten years past has been chap
lain in the noble family of Haffreingues, at
the Chateau de la Ronciere, and held facnl,
ties from the Bishop of Orleans. He did
not hesitate moment" says the Echo de
Rome, to testify by his signature his faith
and his devotion to the See of Peter. He
had forgotten to take account of human
passions, which are found, alas! too often
where one might hope not to meet them"
Among the twelve promoters of the Ad-
dress, there was, as among the twelve
Apostles, traitor, the only one probably
who will be thought worthy of recompense.
Thanks to this false. brother, the matter
was reported at Orleans. One of the vi
cars-General sent for the guilty by turns,
reproached them vehemently for having
published their adhesion to infallibility,
and declared to the Able G uinebau chap
lain Of the Chateau de la Ronciere, that he
was deprived of all his faculties, and might
return to his own diocese. He was actually
occupied in preaching a retreat in prepa-
ration for first Communion in the parish of
Loury, but was not allowed to finish it,"
The Echo de Rome concludes this lamen-
table story by asking what would be the
position of ecclesastics, under the rude
government of Gallican authorities, if our
Lord had not provided for them an appeal
to a more temperate and paternal judge,
in the person of His Vicarf
Cardinal Guidi and the "PaH Mall Ga
Sette.-Two Bishops, one French the other
American, have said publicly that in the
reports of the Council furnished by Pro-
testant or unbelieving correspondents at
Rome, there has hardly been, from the be-
ginning, single true statement. Among
the blunders and fictions of the English
press none have been more impudently
unveracious than those which have APP
peared in the Pail Mall Gasette. The latest
fiction of that journal about Cardinal Guidi
was climax of in yentive art. The whole
story proves to be absolutely false in
every particular. The Cardinal never said
a word against the doctrine of infalli bility,
and therefore, a fortiOri, the Pope never
used the language which the Roman cor
respondents of the PdI:lfdU Gazette, if it
has Roman correspondent, had the in
decency to attribute to him. A journal
of Bologna, the Ancora, quoted in the
Unirers of the 10th inst, publishes the
Cardinals own words at the head of it's
columns. Z" A letter of our most eminent
Cardinal Archbishop Guidi," says the b.
lognese journal, "has been graciously
happy to extract the following passages,
which will serve as a reply to all the cal
umnies and false interpretations which the
revolutionary press has been pleased to
circulate against this honored parsonage"
" Not only you may" writes his Eminence
on the LIST of July, but you ought to an
nounce that, in my discourse addressed to
the Council, clearly demonstrated, main
tanned, and defended the infaIIibility of