The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-05-14
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fusal of Provost Dollinger. They seem 70
imagine that the Pope and the 9OO bisnoPs
who proclaimed or accepted the Gogms
viii have to vanish before the Munich Pro-
lessor. 1t would appear as though they
imagined that there will be revision' or
an appeal to q higher court, ana thas tne
Church will have to wait for the Professor
to announce whether she Is to oelieve os
not in the Definition. Not one ol''e :us 49,
shall be uttered by us against an iiIuss
GUS man who is now giving to bis country.
and to the whole Church, cad example OF
the potent influence exercised upon even
the most learned and the most cuitiVaOeu
minds by the love OF system Of 70 spsai
edge has perils peculiarly its own, ana
they are, ii, fact, perils of the gravest KIND,
because they lead to direct offence
against the Holy Spirit, of which we ma
examples in every page OF Ecciesiastical
history. In the second century, I rSgs .;S
apologies, Quintus Septimus Iert1iiian,
after having gloriously defended tne
Church. fell into heresy and therein o!eu.
In the third century, the most lnos:,ious
Of theolOgiaus and OF ChrisIian tIno
piers, man who was q prodigy OF learn
ing. and wonderful for his immense iaoors,
Oriaen, the adan,antine O1gen as ne was
| stvied. after having bravely undergOne
torture for the Faith, lost himself In fis-
tonic dreams, resisted the voice Oh 'nS
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dangerous heresies, CONFIRMING rs tne1eIy
| seriously to doubt of his salvation. IN n, sne
| fonrth century, tho GcumeDical CouncA VI
Nice defined the Divinity of Christ; some
| few refused their assent, and the grGates'
historian of the Primitive CnuIcn' CuS
bins of Cesarea, became 8 disciple anu
defender of those who, even alter tne
| D.Rnition. remained Arians, and drew al
| ter him a great portion of the East Vogetn-
err with some portions of the West, TO 1se
incalculable injury Of the Churen anu au %
| the Empire. Examples, such as these, CON
| tinnallv succeeded one another, or rather
they we're multiplied dewn to our own cen.
| tury. in which the names of Lamennals, OF
| Gioberto, and others, are amongst !ne
most recent of those who, after having
first adorned and defended the ChuIen.
ended by grievously affecting her- but
| Abe. in like manner as the sun, looks down
upon storm clouds forming and accumuia-
ting beneath her until they burst over the
fields and spreads ruin all around. IL Is
only for q little season, however aICer q
while they dissolve and d.sappea.' via, mn'
the glorious star remains for ever una,s-
turbed and equal to itself. OF the letter de-
Evered nv Doiliuger to the Archbishop, the
, telegraph has transmitted to US only the
+ abstract of it's concluding passages, winch
we would fain hope, for the honor Oh tne
{. The doctrines" the telegraph make Dol
/ Iinger say, t.,chose consequences once oroagh
the German Empire to ruin, are becoming
y dominant in Germany, and aritt qu.ck..
transplant the germ %bas doss this IN" mean
Dollineer, doubtless, intends to refer t
Roman doctrines, or, as the followers
70 DolIiprer term them, Ultromonfane doc
q frines, Was it these doctrines then whlc
% occasioped the fall of the ancient Empire
One would have to fly in the lace OF
reason in order to admit such statement
l. Luther was, as we are all we'll aware, III
RS origin of the great division OF German
er which. owing to him, has been since
M time separated into two opposing camp
no the Hapsburgs and the Wltteisoacn j" =.
30 south the Hohenzollerns, Saxony an
ID. Hesse in the north. The Emperor remain
on ed a Catholic, it is true, but he was on
n the apparent head of that muitiform a
mt gregate which he was Obliged to obey rat
d. or than to command. The later Empero
and Princes were also Constantly detac
inc themselves, more and more, fro
as Rome, and certainly neither Joseph ~
.ahH, the Bishop Electors were ever snspecteo
H. Romanizing tendencies. The Empire {
AZ yided between itself, despoiled, and havi
to an exhausted head, fell oene p s"e ,h ~
tsa blow inflicted upon it, not by Rome, WIN
WV protested against it's fall, but by the fren
revolution. Moreover, according 10
an" telegraph, Dollinger has refused to sue!
lit., to the dogma as Catholic, as theotog'
rity ma nm historian, and as citizen" A
AIRY Catholic his duty is to submit himself T.
'gh- Council which was truly Gcum enicai
a theologian he ought to have felt
noes known what is the adjudication of the
,, of vine authority of o teaching Church
hide an historian he should have recalled
70 of mind the tragic end of those who oppe
arity her; as a citizen he ought not to intro6
ma into his country germ of division wi
may be fatal to her. Lastly, the telegr
makes him cay that he demands "a re-
wing. ion of the German Episcopacy at Flu
ro.s and of German theologiAns at Munich
The Bishops met at Fuida atter
Uses Council, and there dictated lette
by a which they inculcated upon the fan
pre- obedience to the decisions of the Con
eiey, to pretend that they should meet togt
n the a second time to examine the argumen
, less Doilinger is, if truth, worse than
slight surd. Still more singular, however, W
gnant be meeting of the German theologla
Ben Munich. A few priests, or perhaps lay
have taking upon themselves to revise the
MONS of the Council! The Pope himself W
ehold certainly not put his hand again to
lstry, work, nor would the majority of Bisf
into a and would it be in the power OF some
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