The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-30

raries this week we are impelled to the con-
clusion that they are nearly dead to the moral
issues Of the day. While the Evangelist talks
Of Dollinger. the Observer talks of Dollinger,
the Independent talks OF Dollinger, the Mes
senger talks of D0llinger the Golden Age
talks Of Dollinger the Freensan's Journal
talks IT D6llinger, and it is all Doll Dolly, Dol
linger in their columns. The imperative
demands Of our dangerous local religious
situation are altogether lost sight Of
We have taken especial pains this week to
CLEAN from our religious contemporaries every
item regarding religious revivals they have
published. We give them in another column.
They do not amount to 1.-THE of what should
have been expected at this time. We refer
now especially to our Protestant brethren.
On the other hand we notice that
while the Professionals are so slow in making
converts, the Catholics are bringing more than
they ever did BEFORE at the same season, into
their focks, and all this, let it be borne in
mind, while the head of the Catholic Church is
in temporary durance in what was once ST.
Peters citadel In Rome
The Presbyterian Evangelist says the ''infal-
lible Pope has just excommunicated from the
Church of Rome one of its ablest, most learned
and most religious divines." This is proba-
bly, not the first time the Evangelist has had
occasion to laud q recusant member of the
Catholic Church.
The Obseroer (Old School Presbyterian
waxed into the New School, says the first
blow has been struck in defence of the bias
phamy of the Pope's Council" and con-
tinues:-
cree the infalibllity OF weak, sinful man; but hav-
ing done II. the same madness has possessed the
Pope, IN his weakness and terror to Issue bill OF
excOmmuncatlOn against the greatest aud best of
hts churchmen in Bavaria.
The Observer then branches of into a dis
QUESTION upon the Methodist Mystery. y
That is mystery Of some account among
theologians. The trouble is that this mystery
concerns not only the Methodists, but the
Presbyterians, the Baptists, the Episcopalians,
the Reformed Dutch, the Lutherans, the Con-
gregationalists, and 80 on, including the Pro-
testant Church North and the Protestant
Church South. The Catholic Church has no
that.
The Independent (Congregationalist) refers
to "D6linger communicated" in this
wise:--
FIVE years ago if an inlelllsent Roman Catholic
had been asked, 'What great classic contri.
button to theological science has your Church pi o.
dnced in this Reneratonf' he would have replied.
promptly and effectively BY pointing to goody
DOnlnger,V which, either IN the original or trans
lated INTO various tongues are TO he found In all
and are consulted with Difference Dy students OF ali
Christian cOmmunions.
And adds:-
This great man was described to us hy one who
visited him. last year company with Father Hya-
man, bearing his threescore and thirteen years as
lightly as II they were only hall as many. and tiring
down his younger companions in the length AID
nimbleness OF his daily walks in the environs OF
Munich For wonder among German : scholars She he
10 the habtual temperance OF his life.
1t ia fortunate for D0llinger that he never
smoked. IF he had probably Pope Plus TX.
or Antonelli would have smoked him out
before this.
The Independent has an excellent article on
Choosing the Bonds, which in effect means
that no religious denomination should grow
too big for its breaches. This figure it applies
TO the Episcopal Church in England and
America. and AYERS that that Church has
largely .''lost its hold on the Anglo-Saxon
mind by its rigidity in some directions. "
Shades and shadows of the Puritans One Of
your descendants talks of religious rigidity.
The Freemdn's Journal--Catholic organ
says that ''Dollinger was man of intellectual
activity, without any suspicion of genius, "
and continues -
We had read some OF his writings and supposed
he was a great man before we had the grace TO
become a Catholic Twenry-slx years ago That grace
was granted 70 our prayers and to the prayers OF
others for us. Then We found Catholic theooglans,
uniformly, among those We met, treating D1lhnger
M q light weight and unlrusty rs an authority.
Furthermore says the Freemdn's Joar-
mall
IL Is an error In the HERALD and other papers, to
say that the Pope has communicated DR.. D0llin-
ger. IL is the ordinary OF the Doctors diocese act
Ing on The duties OF ms oilce. that has pronounced
tho capital cengure on this vain main, pulicd up bv
the undue natiery OF friends, aud tolerated. these
long times past, ny Catholics that have known hlm
10 he erratic.
Dollinger mot having been accommodated
by the Pope" what il the name of goodness
is all this row about
Our Hebrew contemporaries do not touch
upon the D1Iliuger question. The Le0der has
an article on the "Ancient Classical Nations
Vanished" and declaring that Israel still
lives" The JesoiM Messenger iavors ''uni-
versal alliance of the Israelites."
The Literm ChrisfidR--i,ev. DR. Bellows
enlargcs on Dollingcr, and declares chat the
logic OF events is rrcs,s tib,e.' IL says.--
DIR. Dainger. the leading Catholic mnd or Ger
many, opposed the doIlua of P9pai IufaihDility with
all the resources oil ms vast erldtOn ana all the
force his disciplined mind ANA commanding position
could anJrd. hut ~ was ~ vain. Rome nreierrei
;ne counsel of her ambition 10 that Of her reason.
she adopted dogma whcii " wOnd seein could
nave been devised only ~ n nnnnc and should have
emanaled from an asylum ol the insane rather than
College OF Cardinals.
The Church Joursdi publishes DIR. Dol
fingers letter 10 the Pope in full. but has not