New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-07

VI the lnlallDluty Dogma, anu just DeIOre
| tho assembling of that council the famous
letters of "Janus" appeared, of which he
was said to be the author, demonstrating,
with the cleaness of sunlight, the utter
folly of declaring the Pope of Rome to
be infallible. These letters shook the
religious mind of Europe, but the decree
passed, and following hard upon the pro-
mitigation of this supreme act of bla~-
phemy came the Frnnco-G German war,
the downfall of the French empire, the
ending Of the Napoleonic dynasty, and
the stripping of the old Pope himself of
all his temporal power and dominions.
Thus deposed as a ruler and shut up in
his own house as prisoner of fate, not of
State, despised by his own people-among
whom he is afraid to trust himself-he
looks out of his window to survey the
world he has lost, and consoles himself in
his confinement and ruin by issuing an
empty, imbecile bulletin excommuni-
eating a distinguished divine who will
not say that he believes (when he does
not) the Pope to be infallible
The Importance of this foolish act of
the Pope, however. arises from the fact
that it will be the cause of another re-
formation as great as that of Luther, if
not greater. DR.. Dollinger is now in his
seyenty-third year, and is esteemed pa
triarch and Christian, pure and unsullied
in character, and a faithful follower of his
Divine Exemplar. In all the Roman
Catholic Church no man could have been
selected who could more appropriately
bear the reproach, if any there be attach
ing to the paper fulminations of seryile
Pope. 1t will not hurt him much, but
such as it is, he must bear it. There is q
rumor that King Ludwig, of Bavaria, in
tends to support Dr. Dollinger in his OPP
position to the infalibility dogma, and
that he will be appointed by the king as
Minister of Public Worship, as soon as
the necessary arrangements can be made
BY the legislative chamber of Bavaria The
secular papers are divided upon the ques-
ion as to whether there will or will not
De serious schism in the Roman Catholic
Church
Should 1T transpire, there will be two
parties, one adhering to the Pope and the
doctrine enunciated by the Ecumenical
-ouncil, and the other opposed to it,
lnder the leadership of such men as Dr. |
)ollinger. Others, again, have sug-
,ested that the design and effect of this
movement is for the benefit and advance
nent of the cause of Professionalism.
Whichever of these views is correct, it
matters not there is no doubt that in
ither aspect of the affair, this act of ex-
communication against one of the most
nous, faithful and powerful champions
f the Church, will in the end prove dis
strous to Roman Catholicism.
In the reply of DR.. Dollinger to the
emand of the Bishop of Munich that he
hould give in his adhesion to the foolish
dogmas, he says: ''they are in
mical to the Scriptures as interpreted by
be fathers, and to the belief and tradi-
ions of the churchmen in all ages. The
rguments in their favor are principally
erived from forged, ungenuine docu-
nents, and doctrines precisely opposite
Tere published by two general councils
nd several popes, in the fifteenth century.
hey are incompatible with the constitu-
ion of several European States, especially
'ayaria, to which he as member of the
has sworn allegiance"
After stating other objections, he con-
ludes by asking that he be allowed to
" the whole matter before the council
German bishops which is soon to meet
Fulda.
ALI this was refused, and the bull of
communication was issued. Fortu-
ately we live in an age when persecution
n religious opinion will not be tolerated,
} that DR.. Dollinger will not be in any
anger of personal harm, as was the case
uring the fifteenth and sixteenth CEN
lries.
Of and concerning this whole matter
lie London Saturday Rerie,o says:
That in condemning her greatest living
vine the Church of Rome is pronouncing
II own condemnation does not require I
any words to prove. DIR. Dollinger is the =
fnth nli 1,,-.y,a &c n | {
Us a European reputation, both without
id within the borders of his own eommu- t
on; whose piety no ultramontane has
injured to question, and ultram0ntanes
G not always very nice in their methods of t
rsonal attack; and whose rigid impair
llity, as well as his profound learning, no =
scholar would hesitate to &C u
Owledge. O
Of that invincible uprightness which has ;,
irked his whole life he has now indeed v
pplied the most conspicuous proof in sub a
tting, at the end of long and honorable o,
reer, rather to undergo the ban of the
urch he has SO laborioUsly and so faith "
ly served than to tarnish his reputation 81
d betray his conscience, after the exam =
} of so many who sit in her high places, IL
swearing that black was white-with fC
Uttered puy Sc mnore. Doubtless he has | w
ICED rightly, even though he should not !"
9 to witness the triumph of his principles. te
the patty who prevailed at the Vatican sc
lncl should compel him to die an invol- :.
tary outcast from the church whose doc y"
nes he has never doubted, and to whose tr
vice his life has been devoted, he will, at ct
st, be able to reflect that his testimony ~
not die with him. pl
This act of official church ostracism, df
inst such man as DR.. Dollinger, Vt
st and will be deeply felt in the coun- Sy