The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-29

THE POPE AND HIS COUNCIL.-The London SdtuT-
dag ReUitiD says: ut has now transpred that not
only was the Council Hall In ST. Peters selected for
the very reason Of its acoustic unftness for de-
batng-'we don't want debates but decrees,' as Mgr
Nard observed-but there was further reason.
The Popes throne is so placed that by judicious
arrangement OF day and hour the full radiance OF
the sunbeams may be made to fall full upon him as
he proclams to the world amid the crash Of all the
bells Of Rome and the cannon of st. Angelo, trans
figured with the glory of another Tabor the revela
lation Of J. is apotheosis At the coronation of
Charles Of France doves were let fly into the
church. and it is suggested that dove, well trained
for It's part beforehand, may be made to hover
above the head of Plus X in visible token
of the inspiration of the Holy
Ghost Perhaps to our readers this
may sound somewhat profane: we
can only say the profanity is not ours Many must
have seen the picture, painted by his own order, in
the Vatican, where the Pope is defining the Immacu
late Conception with the rays Of supernatural glory
streaming from the Virgin Mother on his brow. And
this brings us back to our point. II Plus bent
on defining his own infability, it would have been
wiser to follow up the example set for the first time
in Church history in the case Of the Immaculate
Conception, and to have defined 1t by Papal autho-
rty in the midst of brilliant assembly of obsequi-
Gus bishops, but without the cumbrous and danger
Gus machinery of Council. Had the bishops been
summoned to Rome, as they have been two or three
geous pageant, and then suddenly called on to
affirm by acclamaton the first article Of the Jesuit
creed, there might have been suppressed murmurs
OF discomfort but there would have been no time or
opportunity for organized opposition beforehand,
and 1t would have been tenfold more difficult to or
ganize it after the act done AS it is, Papa in
allibility has been put on its trial before the public
for the last two years, and the evidence has gone
terribly against it, One by the
most learned and distinguished Catholics in every
country of Europe have come forward with their in-
dictment and hundreds of bishops and thousands of
the Roman Catholic clergy and laity, who were
ready enough before to acquiesce vaguely ia doc
trine they had never examined and knew to be the
dominant view in their Church, have now been COM
PEELED, often unwiDgy, to sft its claims, and still
unwillingly to reject it. There were not above
a dozen or two of bishops prepared decisvely to OPP
pose the dogma even when they arrived at Rome in
last December; there are now some two hundred.
Whether not the farce played out to its natural
conclusion, and the dogma forced through the Coun-
Gil the heads Of the recacitrant Opposition, and
solemnly proclaimed on ST. Peters Day. the latest
revelation from above, the belief in infallibty has
received a more fatal blow than 1t has had since
Aqunas first faterngy inserted it, on the exclusive
testimony of forged authorities, in the theological
systems OF the Schools OF Latin Christendom."