The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-09-06
\ Visit to the Pope of Rome.

The greatest event Of the nineteenth
century is the Ecumenical Council Of Pic
Mono. 1t is great in its work, great in
its relations and great in its results.
Greater ability and greater learning was
never called together for any purpose, in
any age. The fervency of their zeal, and
the purity of their faith is worthy of the
apostles. They have dared to stand up
and announce their doctrines before the
world, and to confirm it with their sigma
lures. That it is scholarly production
cannot be doubted, and the wisdom of its
authors and the intrinsic merit of their
production is sufficient guarantee Of its
truthfulness That their constitutions
are divnely inspired, may be assured,
prima tacie, from the known authority
Of the holy apostles. and more especially
by the appreciation Of the Pope whose
infallibility has long been believed, but
is now confirmed beyond doubt. In the
assemblage of all cardinal doctrines, none
is more important than that of Episcopa-
cy. Through these many centuries the
church has suffered most for the lack of
established authority. That point is now
gained for all coming ages. The Pope is
now the head of the church, and his au.
thority is, and will be universally ac-
credited. All the orders of the clergy,
all the posts of the episcopacy, and their
apostolical authority should now be ac.
cepted, by all who desire to bear the
Christian name, especially since the apos-
tolical succession is now confirmed, by
assurance as certain as fact. AS the
dignity of the Pope is superior to all
earthly dignity, so his authority exceeds
the glory of all kingdoms and crowns. 1t
is bcfitting, therefore, that in his pontif-
cal character the Pope should sway the
destinies of kingdoms, revoke the DEGREES
of courts and hold the people of all ma
tons subject to his clergy and ultimately
to his own fat.
Freedom of speech and Of thought and
faith is directly and openly hostile to the
jure diriao, which in English means the
rights of the Pope to reign, proclaimed
from Gabriel's trumpet.
To suppose there is piety or moral
principle outside of the Catholic church,
is heresy.
liberation, Of which so much has been
said and written, is unayoidably hostile
to piety, and has therefore never been
countenanced among Catholics. God has
given the right to all good Catholics, and
by pre-eminence to the episcopacy to sup
press heresy with the sword, and to pun
ish resistance with summary death.
All loyal Catholics understand this,
and therefore favor not the slightest de-
Walton from the mother church. Every
member of the Catholic church, however
feeble, obscure, or dependent, believes in
the authority of the Pope. They claim
that God has given to Catholics the tight
to murder, without trial, any Protestant
who stands in the way of the advancement
of her interests that they are in duty
bound to steal from Protcstants anything
they can lay their hands on, if they give
it to the church. Lying and thieving are
indeed venal Offences, but they are APP
proved by ready indulgences. Lying
and praying with rosary in hand are
Catholic graces. Stealing for the sake Of
principle, is exalted charity. 1t is an old,
long established principle, that what ono
does by another is his own act. Hence
what the priest does by the laity, is his
act, what the bishop does by his curate is his
act, what the Pope does by his cardinals
ishis act The episcopacy is now established
the last blow is struck that demolishei