The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-01
DR.. D0llINGER AVID The POPE.
The Tpfallibility Question,
SheFman on sumner
The Ohio Senator's Views.
ETC., Etc, Etc, Etc, ETC., Etc.
INFALLIBTLITY.

The New Schisnh In Bavaria-Refusal of
the Minister ofthe Interior to Permit the
Publication of the OGcumenical DEGREES.
The Bavarian Minister of the Interior has
given the following decision in answer to the
petition of the Archbishop of Bamberg asking
for the royal permission to publish and carry
out the DEGREES of the Gcumenical Council.
Additional interest is impaired to it by the re,
cent refusal of Dr-follinger to accept the doc
trine of infallibility, and the support of the
Bavaran Government in this refusal:-
The Right Reverend Archbishop of Bamberg,
Michael V. Deinlein, has, in referring to the
ministerial resolution of August 9, 1870, re-
quested his Majestys permission for the publi-
cation and solemn declaration Of the first dog
matte constitution de eccIeSid Christi editd in seS
stone qudrtd SacroSd1lcR 9cunenici Conoilti
Fdticani.
The Ministry of the Interior is willing to
acknowledge that the Right Reverend Arch
bishop of Bamberg has been guided by the
Ministerial decision above mentioned, but cannot
comply with the request In this the Ministry
is not influenced by the otherwise important
fact that many competent theologans have
raised great objections against the legal value
of the DEGREES of the Gcumenical Council from
q theological standpoint, for this consideration
belongs to the domain of the Church, and can,
therefore, have no decisive influence upon the
councils of the Ministry.
OF very great importance is, however, the
fact that the aforementioned dogmatic consti-
tuition, and the consequences resulting from it,
cause not only material change in the inner
relations of the Catholic Church, but also in
those existing between Church and State in
Bavaria. According to the opinion of the un-
dersigned ministry, it is certain that if the
power of the Head of the Catholic Church
within certain domains, defined in this con-
stituton were carried out, the fundamental arti-
cles of the Bavaran constitution and the citizens
Srights of the non-Catholics of the country would
a- placed in jeopardy. In contradiction with
This theory IL has, however, been emphati-
cally declared by several dignitaries
of the Church that The newly defined dogma
was strictly confined within the limits of faith
and religious instruction. This assertion, as
well as the other eXtenuating explanations of
the above named constitution by the Right Rev.
Archbishop of Bamberg, cannot calm the fears
of the Ministry, fer there is no guarantee that
these manifold Papal edicts of former times,
which prevailed upon the domain of worldly
affairs, might not be put in practice, or that no
more edicts of the same kind will be issued in
the future.
Moreover, the domain of religion and religious
instruction is not SO clearly marked as to ex-
clude cases which possibly might also belong te
the domain of worldly affairs In view of this
consideration, 1T is impossible for the undersigned
Ministry to regard in the aforementioned dog
matical decree purely spiritual subject of con
science and religious instruction and as not con-
ficting with the worldly domain. The Ministry
rather shares the opinion of those who see in il
an essential alteration in the relations between
Church and State, and apprehend great danger
for the political and social foundations of the
State from the publication of this decree.
Under these circumstances the Governmen
would receive the reproach of having trihed will
IFS trust If it were to allow the inference that
agreed with the DEGREES of the Gcumenica
Council by permitting their publication. Tn,
undersigned Ministry has therefore come to tn,
conclusion that it is unable to grant the reques
of the Right Reverend Archbishop of Bamberg
By order of his Royal Majesty. VoN LUTz.