The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-06-05
CHRONICLES or TIE COUNCIL.

The 4rekoishcp Of Baltimose and IT,
8 that the noble and generous protest of tn,
former Prelate has produced all the fruit
which might have been expected from sucl
document. 1t is not, we are told, tn.
intention of the Archbishop to make any
further reply. to his adversary. The at
tempt to divide the American Bishops ha.
signally failed. OF the sixty members Of
! the hierarchy of the United States, more
! than fifty, mindful of the solemn decisions
of their own provincial councils, are of one
heart and mind with the Archbishop Of
Baltimore, who will leave his five or ak
dissentient colleagues to their own pious
reflections, confident in the restoration OF
That perfect unity which they have been
the first to disturb, but which will again
be the glory. of the American Church. Ii
Mgr. D9Panioup finds pleasure in accusing
the Archbishop of Baltimore Of inconsist-
ency, BECAUSE after soliciting an indirect
and implicit definition in the postulatun,
presented by him, he now prefers ore
which shall be formal and explicit all who
have read the letter of Mgr. Spalding, and
his colleagues, will know what to think of
80 trivial charge. As to the opinion of
Mgr. Kenricls, which the Bishop of Orleans
| tries also to misrepresent, extracts from the
writings of that learned Prelate will short
" be distributed among the Bishops and
Theoiogians now IN Rome, 80 that any
doubt on this point may be effectually dis
sipated. If the Archbishop and his Hnseri-
| can colleagues could have anticipated the
excuses Of which the party Of the oppo-
sition have been guilty, they would from
the first have desired q definition in the
form which they now propose. In letter
addressed BY his Grace to the Holy Father,
| in the month Of August, 1869, of which q
copy has been communicated to us, Mgr.
Spalding not only professed his own un-
doubling belief, in common with all Ca
tholic Bishops, in Pontifical Infallibility,
urgency of q formal defnition-quod 81
fosneGlitey P0tres ezpedire jadicaverint-and
even suggested in what manner it's object
should, in that case, be expressed. 1t is
not he who has been inconsistent; and
when the history of the Council comes to
be written, not many names will be mem
toned with more honor than that Of the
wise and prudent Arch bishop of Baltimore,
nor will any extra Conciliar document be
recorded in future generations with q
than the letter in which Mgr. Spalding
indicated himself and his colleagues from
all completely with Gallican doctrines and
intrigues.
The constant exposure of Gallican arti-
fees does not appear to check them. The |
venerable Dean of Louyain writes as fol-
lows to the UniUers: An unknown hand
series of pamphlets hostile to the divine |
prerogatives of the Holy See." This &C.
clesiastic, who is eighty years of age, adds |
that he hopes the public expression Of his |
indignation will induce the active agents at |
Orleans Ia moderate their zeal, and to ad
dress tkefr iesidisus proyocatio1sn to |
priests from whom they win only provoke I
= fresh manifestation of their belief in the
infallibility of the Vicar of Christ.
The Bishop of Angouleme has addressed
a pastoral instruction to the clergy and
faithful of lis diocese, in which he relates
Gallican theology" The pastoral concludes
with these words Z" Instructed by these
domestic examples, we shall continue,
with the grace of God, firmly attached to
that immovable rock which He has fixed
as the foundation of His Church"
Condemnation of III. Gyatry.-Two Ger
man Prelates, the Bishop of Wurtzburg
and Eichssatt, have written to the Bishop ]
IF Strasbourg to thank him for his con-
iemnation of Abbe Gratry. "This act of
Episcopal vigilance and energy" writes t
The former, "has given me equal joy and
,difcation, and count it q duty to an t
,ounce my full and entire adhesion to your t
Judgment. May God repay you with bless c
ngs what you have done for His glory" :
The Bishop of Eichstatt says: az feel
to express publicly the perfect
of my thoughts and sentiments
WILL yours. way tuiS dCI, performed III
he name of the Church and with the bless a
ng of God, prevent the fatal consequences L
If deplorable scandal" a
The Archbishops of st. Louis and Cincie-
,ati.-In referring last week to the letter o
by these two prelates to Mgr.
0upanlOup, we are anxious not to be under 4
tood as presuming to judge our superiors.
Dur purpose was to notice two facts which
eem to us to impair the force of their ar
,ument about Adrian w.: the frat that
10 dogmatic definition was made in the
lct. referred to; the second, that the
principal Irish American journals have
,aen for some time past conspicuous ad-
7ocates of Papal Infallibility.- They do
lot, therefore, suspect that revealed
ruth had become incapable of definition
because of the past or present relations be-
ween England and Ireland. Why suggest
@ them difficulty which they had never
elt?
French Addreeses to Pius I1.-The adj
lresses of the clergy Of all the dioceses of
France, in which they assure the Holy Fa-
her of their ardent desire for the def
lition of Papal Infallibility, are so numer-
rus that it ia impossible to do more than to
efer to them. Many of them say, and there
g no voice to contradict them, that they
cypress the faith of the Tkole clergy OIL
France, with exceptions which have little
weight, and are constantly becoming more
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