The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-30
DR.. Dolliuger.

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| DR.. Ignatius DolliDger, in his seventy.
| third year, has asft the Catholic Church
The Arch6ishop az Mpnich had given him
= &c certain p, time snmske mp his mind whethe,
the Vatican or not The time expired, and
Or. Doitinger asked for longer time fol
| consideration. The Archbishop rave him
up to the LIST at April, bnr ON the 2sth ult
ne had finally made up his mind. The bat
We which hadsb~esS going on in his mind for
some weeks between good and evil was
fought, and itwas;won BY that principle OF
liberalism In revealed religion, that prin-
ciple which for years past 9ilad fascinated
MIN ana taken p0ssessiop Of his soul. Ten
years0agoA be showed himself to be an ene-
my OF the temporal power, though the
Pope and Bishops of the Church declared
that a civil priacedom in present circum-
stances is necessary for the free exercise of
Lhe Prer0gatives OF the head of the Church.
Last year he attacked the General Council
III pamphlet, in which he is proved to
nave committed SO grave a blunder on the
subject of the Council of Florence, that as
an historian he could scarcely have met
with more complete more public hu-
mutation. Now that the Council has sepa-
rated, aud that the Bishops of the minority
nave not only accepted its definitions, but
again aud again declared how absolutely
Tree they hadrOeen during the Council,
when they had voted against the definition,
and how, in the freedom of their homes,
they have since accepted the doctrine and
promulgated it among their people now,
after this delay, after this formal accept
pate, doctrine taught by the Fathers, by
Councils, by schoolmen, by theologians and
by Popes-and now openly professed by
the whole Catholic world-now it is, in
this hour of the day, that DR.. Ignatius Dol
linger sets himself up against the Church
lad md tpvv r. 4:
private judgment to the voice of God, cuts
himself off from the Catholic faith aud falls
away.
He has published long letter in the
Dusseldorf Gdsette, addressed to the Arch
bishop of Munich. He undertakes to prove. |
LIST, that the 1nfallibility of the Pope is not
proved in Scripture; I'd, that this doctrine
and that of the power of the Pope ia in
to tradition; Sd, that the
Bishops have been led astray by their class
books, such as St. Alphonsus and F. Per-
rome 4th, that the DEGREES of the Vatican |
are in contradiction with those of two |
Councils in the fifteenth century: 5tb. |
That the DEGREES are simply incompatible
with the Constitutions Of the States Of |
Europe, and especially with that of Bava-
ria. ="
We are unfeignedly grieved for DR.. Dol
inger. For his own sake We lament his /
apostacy. But there are other considera.
'A"~1s
ament that being no longer of rs he should
nave gone out from us. DIR. DOllinger has
'efused to submit to the voica of the
Church, and has appealed to his own de-
:eptive science as the guide OF his faith,
BY this appeal he has already forsaken the
way of faith.
But there is q ludicrous side of folly to
The German professors position. He ap-
oeals from the Pope and Council. from the
Universal teaching of the Episcopate, to a
'uture meeting at Fuida, provided he be
accompanied by a man of "cultured
science 5" or to committee of a cathedral
chapter, composed in great measure, as
ie informs us, of his own pupils, provided,
90, " statesman learned in the lawn be
present at the discussion. So, are we come
20 this, that revealed truth cannot be ascer-
aimed by the Pope and General Council,
another German of "cultured science" or
BY q Bavarian learned statesman, NAV set
The Catholic Church right at last, and save
the Pope and Council, aud the clergy and
faithful OF Christendom, from the grievous
errors to which they have all deliberately
Jolly, and an extravagant grotesqueness, in
his thought of the German professor,
which is stnpendous. If pride and coueeit
had not blinded both his eyes, he could not
have himself failed to see it. To the hu-
initiation of his scientific blnnders is now
added the supreme humiliation of an appeal
from the Catholic Church to a Fulda Con-
or to Committee of Munich
Canons In the presence of q representative
of "cultured SCIENCE" or of a Bavarian
statesman. Could false and infla teti science
sink to a more patent folly7 Such is DR..
DOllinger, the German Professor of History,
the Bavarian courtier, the keeper sof the
king's Coincidence. His sad position is a
against liberalism in religion
London Tablet.
1t is said (says the London Uniuerse,)
openly at last, that the first punishment.
coming upon Italy for its sacrilege is total
bankruptcy. What SO likely in the natural