The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-01-25
SOME NEW DOOK5.
Tho Catholic Faith aud Ui,unsenical ooun-

In the Teumenical Council now sitting Ia Rome,
tho question OF papal InCalhbihy has not thus far
been taken NJ. Yet II had been supposed that IL
would be ono of the most pressing points 10 be
settled, and II 10 SAID, VIC know not how truly that
tic unexpected hesitation In approaching IT 10 w
measure due to a recent German work on The
Pore and The Oop1oI written By three or four Catho-
lie thcologians Of Munich, under tho assumed name
OF Janus An authorized translation u published
by Roberts Brothers.
The volume contaiu. q comprehensive account OF
the Catholic Church. and displays IN exhaustive
knowledge Of ecclesiastical history, which 1t pre-
sen,s arrayed in opposuon 10 the Ultranontane tho
ory The great division In the bosom Of tue Church
which IL said to have boon silently widening for 80
many years 10 placed clearly before NJ, and we can
trace 1t from It's earliest beginning mp TO m present
UNREASONABLE importance.
In the first stages Of the Church. when the several
CT rtian provinces placed under the spiritual
guidance OF their Ies pccye bishops. the only superb
ority Of the Roman Bishop lay according TO the work
before ue, 10 the fact that ho was ranked rs the
first Of the Palrarchs In the controversies which
occurred In those days, the Popcs were often una
bic to establish th.ir own views, and tho other
churches maintanod their peculiar usegcs without
giving rise to any permanent division. throughout
the fourth century dosmatic euettlons were deter
mined only by Councils OF all the Bishops.
In the time OF tho Roman Empire the Pores took
part In convoSing theso great Councils, which
were called togr thor b. tho Empcrore. Although
the Popcs held the 1rst rank In the Church, they
were not always allowed to preside at such meet
irgs. But tho ambition OF tho Roman Bshops led
them constantly 10 increase the power Of their
See. and In the course Of time the Roman Church
became pTcGminent far beyond It's original rOsiton.
INT altbouoh the ,moor,anee Of the Roman prcIates
gradually increased no scrious a,,ompt was made TO
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,hor,h be WAS ,1oor,,, oe ,.c,r ,,,.e character
nv vera xoloomo N his sndae,on. ambition
with ,har a.,,.,s,.o nis pow,r wa. Greatly
unconditional I'm, An sn,te os ,ha ,n,,ens
no.l,ian watch tho Roman Church had attained
Tor t,vo h,o,,rad VAR. on,, bs death A..
iutcr,al,v senoral,,ed cond,tion nr,ve, tod anv
srcnt extension or enforcement of ts r,ybts
Ncyetth,,c.s tho great oorrur ton In tho On urol
Nas used ~ one OF the stror goat arguments Tor The
further elevation Of the PAM ROVER. since sueh n
concentration Of authority vas sunno.es 4, no M,
ers.ary for It's publication The doctrine of Papal
Infh bhty-that Ia that tho perfect insrs,ntion md
consequently the right to supreme rule resided IN
the Popc-was accordingly put iato formal shape IN
tho year 1850 und later 10 1915
The new system grew apaee. Not only r,s Il held
Affairs. but that he was "Gods Lo,,g, te1ens on
Garth set 10 watch over the social. tortieaI. and
religious condition OF mankind Ike n Divine Proyi.
dence, az chief oyetsser and lord, who must nut
down all opposition" Tho Pones asserted their
n ht TO political dominion and declared bodl, that
thay were properly lords and masters OF the whole
world and 1t cmperos and kings we're bu, delegates
of the Psnal aulhun,,. The Roman Caurch IT ID.
ualS a.sumot all TIE former Jurisdiction of tic
whole Church, and "bceatne the Roman Court" IL
was the lrena IN whica were carried on transactions
about privileges dIspensat,ons exemptions and the
like; aud the Cur.a soon grew to be vist DO Scr,
exercising IT. rule 10 the limits OF Chrstenoln and
u rcs:rlncsly donnccring over the world which lay
submissive be ore It. such Councils as were now held
wero entirely subscryient TO the pope and ~ great
became the fllsolooi, simony and universal corrup.
ton In tie whole ONurch, Tat Marcel,ua II, *
c.-imca "a anguish that lie did not See how a Pope
could be saved. In the fourteenth ccutury ,am, the
schls OF thc An:uopes, when two ropes au Italian
and a Frrueh, divided the religious world md
anathcmn'lsed each other. Parity on this sccouu,,
but chiefly from the universal horror nj the per.