The New York herald., 1870-02-20

are henccforth 10 be forced by pain or oxcommun :
cation, refusal OF the sacraments ana everiastna
Church hitherto has not believed, not taught" For
II cannot be said that even those VINO nave
hitherto neld the papal iniaiiiGllM 70 caS oS
only believe that which he Is told and taught BY the
Church as q dvinely revealed thing aS thlng ap-
pertaining to the substance OF the doctrine OF sava
t0n, "a thing beyond all aud every doubt and the
refusal 10 accept which implies disobedience to De
punished by exclusion from tho community. But In
reality there ID not q single human creature VINO
ever believed In 1t IN this way even as one would be-
lieve IN God OF the Trinity The proclamation OF ths
agreed 60 BY some, tde hudmd, as thing Of pr0ba-
Diiity. would mean nothing less than an alteration
never been heard Of ever since Christianity was rst
founded. The whole foundation VI the Church
stead ac s would thereby Dc ,eon aocSs as csse a
Catholic being able 10 say, believe .
certain thing. because the Church OF AL times bears
promise thar it shall ever remain in the possession
l srutn-he will nencef0rta have to put instead OF
that Church. which compasses al time ana al
space. single ndlyiduRi--the Pope TO Wit. lie VIII
have to say believe this that, because the ina
liDe Pope teaches It. And why Is he lnfalllble9
Dsh0ps-w natever their number--have decreed IN
Rome, In 1870. that the Pepe Is iniallibe matters
very little inasmuch As all bishops ana every
Council are subject to error without the help
OF the Pope. Their Testimony has only as much
value as ne who is alone exempt from error
pleases to place upon 1t; and only inasmuch - ne
approves tEls their resolution, thore any validity
Ia 1t. And thus moving In vicious circle, the
,est,mony Of himself True, SON sotne su $40 Years ago
some one higher mas SAID, III testify to myself my
testimony Ii not to be believed"
siderau0ns to which the address gives rise.
The first Is that It limits the P0pes iaalibility 70
ms n deelees Sud ~ Ins
whole Catholic Church in fact; from which 1t
would follow tnat the Pope, whenever he
ticuar churches, has always been SUBJECT
to error Considering that for twelve or thirteen
centuries the Popes have always addressed their
teachings on some point or otner to particular per-
sons or bishops OF certain countries and therefore
did not iulnl the one condition which alone could
them iniailibie, II " TO be feared that all
these emanatlons, up TO lhe last 600 years or So
were erroneous ana would nave to be abrogated
Nor did the POpes themselves know OF their lnfal-
bility oil that time. 1t was IN 1862 that johann
Hessel, the Louvaln the0o2ian, first br0ached the
theory. From him Bearmlne took IT, supporting
II with the testimony OF the Isdoran decretals
which are forged, and those OF ST. Cyril. which are
q nctlon. Indeed 1t would only have cost the Popes
the addition OF few words TO tnat effect at the top
OF their addresses II they had believed In their In
faiiIDity. But III truth they never dreamed VI 1t.
secondly the trainers OF the petition say that which
Is not In asserting that according to the general
ana tradition OF tue Cnurcn the judgments
OF the Pope unalterable Inc contrary of TINS Is
amned the dogmatic utterances or the P0pes, and
then either agreed to them or rejected them as was
done by the MIN Council y 553 aud BY the sixth 10
6sl. Nor IT, thirdly, correct when the bishops talk
or rhe second Council OF Lyons u274 having ac-
cepted, with the assent OF both Greeks
the matter OF faith must be decided by the
Judgment or the Pope Neither Greeks nor Latins
sala tnis; put the rope Clemen. ", WHO sent m ths
condition or his being admitted into the communion
or the Church, The unfortunate Mtchaei. sorety
pressed by his Latin foes, nad alternative but TO
accept for himself q formula which alone could en-
sure him the peace he 50 much needed; but IN ms
Gerry rom the outset protested against it, and the
nation simply rejected 1t en- bloc As for the bishops
assembled AZ the Council tney never even had an op
portunisy OF giving an opinion on the subject OF this
formula.
The next argument OF DR.. Dollin9er is still more
trenchant. 1t simply charges the fathers OF the ad
mutati0n or their quotations. The decree OF the
Forentine Council, adduced by them IN proof OF
Meir assertion, mas been clipped. certain pas
sage, which reads according to the manner III
which IT is contained botn in the acts and the holy
pressed And 1t was this very sentence upon which
everything hinged. The Pope and the Cardinals had
demanded that the words, according to she sayings
OF the salnts should Dc put III the definition OF the
Pope's primacy.. But the Greeks knew iull well
wnat things there might be read read out Or
made authoritative on that point, and rejected 1t
point bl2nk-nay, declared tnat they would leave
the Synod without having done single thing II
that sentence which pointed to the testimony OF the
seven Ecumenical Councils preceding the forged
Isidorian decretals were lett out And not long
before that Bishop BesSariOn had declared, in the
Of all The Greeks, that the Pope was less than
The Council, and, therefore, faliBie But there Is
another little connected Will
decree-viZ falslfcaton of certain Ell into etiaDl,
whereby the whole meaning OF 1t becomes lus0ry
No doubt that ancient forgery. first occurring IN
Abraham B2rthOOmHus has been at the bottom OF
THIS mutilaton on the part OF the InfalliblllsBs-a
ialsncation which has actually been received by
authority la sca0ol books and religious cumpen-
dlums, though 1t was very energetically protested
against 200 years ago by the Archbishop OF Paris, D.
MOrca, himself
Next, Dr. Dollinger enters upon the yrulent Ian
guaRe used by the cOncOcerE OF the address against
tnose who do not mold the Florentne Council to
have been an ecUmenical One-"B t0teIaTe non eru-
6escxrst" is their phrase; the facts being that this
Council was called together TO counteract that OF
Basle where certain reforms OF the Cnurcn had been
proposed which the Curla did not particularly care
for, and no came to attend 1t except about nfty
ItailanS-niBe tenths or the then Cath0hc world, Ger
many, Scandinavia, Poland, Bohemia france. Bas-
hle Portugal, &C., holding entlrely aloof from the
meeting. For six months they had to before even
those Italians could be brought togetner The Greeks
who attended 1t came under abject pressure. They
and their Emperor were on the verge oi rum. The
Pope had promised them money, ships. soldiers,
besides paying their expenses b0tn At ferrara and
Florence, and the fact was that he just fed them
according to their greater or less pliabty. 1t was
articles which they repudlated the moment they
arrived in their native country and had food OF their
own again. Nor were the contemporaries blind to
that fact. And long before the French evolution
this Synod was rejected as spurious by France, and
Cardinal Guise when said thls openly at Trent did
not meet with so much as one single word OF con.
tradlcuon.
AS to the rest of the Address DR.. Dlllnger deals
summary with 1t. He forciby exposes the feeole-
would not have been absolutely necessary to pro-
claim this new dogma, but that ''naving got INTO
fx' the bishops now are forced to DO So lhe
Jesuts have FOR certain number OF years past
strained every nerve TO get this dogma passed. Tney
founded special society Ior 1t; they have kept up
an Incessant agitation for 1t III all Europe;
they have absolutely pointed out this dogma
both in the Ciritua and the many other organs
at their disposal as the one thing for which the
Council was called together. 1t would, OF course,
says DR.. D0llinger, in concluding his forciDie pro-
test have been the duty OF all those who maintain
different opinion TO hold their peace In awe and
trembling, and let the Jesuts have their own way.
Unfortunately, this has not come to pass Some
men have actually dared to look into the arguments
brought forward ana have lmpudently exposed
their fallacy ana the mischief tnat turks In tnem.
Nothing, therefore, remains TO the Church, as In
Rome represented, but to wipe out THIS horrible mis-
deed by new dogma. according TO which all Gaze
chisms and all religious books hitherto used as
guides to the faithful VIII have 10 be amended ana
altered.
n The petition is an echo OF the pastoral and fare
well sermon OF our own Dr. Manning, tins most
daring, learned anu eloquent counterblast reminds
us fOIciby OF the language aud lore OF
.Janus.o The Catholic world Is TO be congratulated
that champion like Dolllnger mas openly thrown
down the gauntlet. And IT ID indeed quite alive to
the importance oil this document the glst OF which
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