The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-03-05

NUMBER 5.
what Doilinger thinks Of the Popss Temporal
Power and Italian Unity.
AS many Protestants, quote Dollinger %
opposed to the Pope's temporal power, it
may be well to cite o Sew of his express
sions in regard to it:
He delivered two lectures in Munich on
the 5th and 9th Of April, 1861, which are
supposed to contain his most "hbeIal
these he speaks as follows: "Of the good
right of the Pope which rests upon the
strongest and most legitimate titles OF ac-,
QUESTION and possession, acknowledged Dyv-
mankind, there can be no doubt. gAs,iittie
can exist of the faithless rr.achsavelIism.
and the revolving injus..ace Of the policy
pursued towards t..u Roman See." In the
same lecture, quoting Bellarmine's remark
that IN the earlier ages tho Church did not
need princely authority for the support OF
her majesty now 1t seems to be necessity,
Doilinger adds, "This necessity indisputabIy
Again, towards the end of this first lecture,
he says: "IHe Pope cannot become a sub
ject he cannot belong exclusively toeany one
Kingdom he must exercise his high odos.
freely and independently, as the common
| father of all"
In the second lecture he says: "The
Pope is bound by the most sacred pledges,
| to surrender nothing of that which has been
| entrusted to his keeping he must contin-
ually protest against tho spoliatien of his
! territory"
Not to spread quotations too much, we
shall merely add one or two from his
"Church and Churches" work written
| after the two lectures, aud intended to ex-
plain portions of them. In this work, page
3 of the English translation of 1862, pub
lished by Hurst and Blackett, of London,
n oll:- ,st
by and for herself, and did exist for seven
centuries without the territorial possessions
of the Popes but ut later period this
property, through the condition of the
world, became necessary" "As long
as the present state and arrangement Of
Europe endures, We can discover no other
means to secure to the Papaf See its free
dom, and through it general confidence"
Again, page 10: "Wbat we want, before
all things, is the truth, the whole truth, not
merely the acknowledgment that the Tenn
zoraL Poacer is required by the Charch, for
that is obrious to everybody, at least ont Of
ItaIy."
Again, page 400, Dollnger writes of the
| Sandman Government: at unites the
| shameless Tyranny of q convention, and the
impudent sophistry of government OF ad-
| vocates, with the ruthless brutality OF
military despotism. Far more secure could
| Plus feel upon the Turkish soil, and in his
dealings with the Sultan, than in the neigh
borhoOd of the Piedmontcse beast OF prey,
or in the power of Ricasoli, or o Ratazzi-
OF above all, of those lawyers and hferafS'
those land plaques that, with trumpery,
pompous rhetoric, and hollow-sonnding
phrases, are now, and mayhap for some lit
tie time longer may be, permitted to survive
upon the surface Of society siTy: ur.,.s.. msn
, amongst the italians in modern times, have
avowed that a monarchical unity was an
tagonistic both to the character and the
past history of the population, and did VIZ
olence to the italian municipal spirit. Bal
t DO, Gioberti, Rosmini, Galeotti, were all IN
favor of confederation as being most In
8 accordance with the italian Tradition and
: the popular sentiment, and therefore re-
3 garded united italian Kingdom as an i'm
g possibility"
n This is what Dollinger thinks of the Sar-
= dinian Government, Idem p.'a49) us u
# Government that prides itself on ATS Qerh-
g DIV, and respects neither the rights OF ma
Is tions, nor the faith of treaties, nor the le-
h Ultimate possession of property tuat mas
IS DO regard but for brute force and the power
Y of the stronger, and the authority OF &C
Re complished facts; is goyernme tnao ID
ID one of its DEGREES declared the memory OF
o, a murderer to be holy and sanctihed Is o
20 Government that is restrained neither by
D. the bond of law, morality, nor religion, to
in he the government that Is to secure to the
of Church it's freedom, and to the Pope his III
rs volatility and independence Z" Again, p
r $50: "That the Papal See could be, an q
kinadons like the Piedh,ontese, really free, Is
an absolute nlpossibitity,"
III These passages will suffice to show no"
false is the assertion of Rev. DR.. Thomp-
I'd son at the s'Italian Unity" meeting, that
IF "Gio5erti, Rosmini, and DoIIinger, eminent
e. and sanity Roman Catholic clergy'en," were
opposed TO the temporal power OF the
n Pope.-N. Y. Tablet.
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