New-York tribune., 1870-05-30
ROME.
THE INFALLIBILITY sCHEMA-DEATH OF AN
AMERICAN LADY.

THE INFALLIBILITY sCHEMA-DEATH OF AN
AMERICAN LADY.
ROME, May TO-" Pigeons have risen in price,
said a friend TO me the other day. " How 80 "
asked. "Why, have you not heard that the Bishops
have each of them secured a pigeonW l shall not
follow the insinuated blasphemy any further but 1T
is one of the natural results of effort to suppress
the exercise of reason and to substitute for it blind
faith in the decisions of 200 elderly gentlemen. The
great masses of the people laugh at the Council and
if they did nothing more than that the harm done
would not be great; but from laughing at absurdies
they proceed to laugh at all that accustomed
to regard as most sacred. Such some of +he bit
ter fruits of the Vatican Gcumenical Council Of
| 1SG9-70.
in my last letter said that the scheme on the Su-
premacy of the Roman Pontiff had been given ont
on Friday, Goth April and that on lnfallibility on
| Saturday, the Goth of April, and that these were
really the to the French note backed up by
half the Powers of Europe. But what cares the Vat
lean for such remonstrances In the words of one of
it's organs, the Unia CdttOoa, Plus TX. defes the
diplomacy of SOveregns and even of He'll" Rather
strong, but true. l now send you the text and
translation of the famous scheme or schemes 1t
runs as follows:
II any shall say that the Episcopal Char OF thc
Roman Church is not the very true and lnfabc Chaf
of the Blessed Peter or that it has not been dlncy
chosen God most SOlld CnluflnG ana lhcOT-
ruptbe rock of the whole Christian Churc-lct him be
anathema. -, :.
tnct and separate from the Cnair OF the BLESSED let
any other Inabe Chair Of the Truth OF the Gospel OF
Christ the LOrd-let him be anathema.
g. If any shall deny that the Divine Supremacy OF
the Chair OF the Blessed Peter TO all men, whether u-
believers believers, whether laymcn or bishops nece-
sary the true road TO eternal saVatlon-lel hm De
anathema.
Pons legitimatpN elected, are not Jufe dtrlnO sue
of the Blessed Peter in the git also Of Magste
rial mfability and shall deny 10 any one OF them me
prerogative Of Infallblity teach the Church the
Word of Cod pure from all corruption and error-let
5. If any one shall say that Gcumenical Councils are
power placed by God IN the Church Tor Ieedmg @ 5hG D
Pontd or equal to HIM or neceSs3ry nee by PYLE 5H
the Bishop of ROme-let him be anathema
This is said to be the reformed Scheme which once
formed the eleventh and the following article of the
Scheme de Eoclesid but which since the action Of
French diplomacy have been promoted to the first
place. AS they were distributed some time in the
month of March in their entirety with the Scheme
de Eccleia they have already received the written
observations of the Fathers, and have been submitted
TO the manipulatiOns of the Delegation (C0mrntteel
They are now reproduced Ill their reformed state and
the Council can proceed TO business at once. Inc
entire Scheme de Ecclesia consists OF sixteen chap
ters. of which the eleven and twelfth were on the
Roman POntih These have been extracted ana
formed into "A separate Scheme OdhOc-lnfallbllltX-
the remaining chapters beng passed over until the
great object of the Council has been gained. hope
I have made myself clear though to tell the truth
where everything is wrapped III mystery, II Is very
difficult to obtain clear views of anything On We'd
nesday, the 4th May Congregation was held
i'm St Peters to vote the Little Catechlm As may be
expected at this late season few persons were present
in the church, and those tardy stTaggleTs who had
never seen many live Bishops assembled together
before. AshTill voice raised always TO the same pitch
very audlbleas proceeding from the council Han,
and Placer at intervals told the rest of the story.
The voting going forward, but what was the pre-
else result it was impossible To ascertain. Inc
1 .eln. hnahg lgn hRI
oaths Some ventuTed to say that the Little Catechsn
had been approved, but several incidents led me TO
suppose that the Utramontanes were not highly sat
ised. The official journal was silent on the following
evening. and il not until the next that II SIMPLY
stated that "the voting had been proceeded with"
Now have ascertaned that there were 30 who voted
non pldce A or - who voted ptdod j,rtG ROdum"
and 80 who abstained from voting Some go so 1ar as
10 suppose that new Scheme on the same subject VIII
be brought forward but II has been virtually de-
cided that everything is to be determined by ma
iOrty and that moral unanmity is not needed, DO
not believe that the question Will he agtated again.
An incident of painful character, which touches,
in the present instance, Americans was narrated 10
me Yesterday. And You may depend on the truth or
II Amonp our visitors this Winter has been Mad
anne tebhard of New York. daughter of Mr. Scott,
who resides in Rome. The poor LADY dled lately at
the Hotel de Lordres, and wish having been Gx-
pressed that her remains should be deposited III the
same grave with those of her husband arrangements
were made for sending them across the Atlantic At
the last moment, however the Cure OF 81 Andrea
delle Frate in whose PARISH Madame GebhaId had
lived stepped forward. He stated that no Konan
Catholic, DIVING in Rome, according to an ancient
law couid be removed for burial in another country
without the permission Of the parish priest and the
payment of a scudo mile for the distance To be
fravefsed Five thousand scudo, the legal demand'
yyould have been serious sum, so negotiations were
entered into and the fee was finally reduced to 800
francs which was paid. l make no comments upon
this fact, , =, - o.. -:
viii be held ON Friday, the 18th inst.
ITALY