The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-22
M THAT BRING GLAD TIDINGs OF GOOD THlNGsl"


Dr. Dollinger's Thousands Among the Clergy
Think AZ Do"
We translate the following Article mo.
y from tho Bayriscke Taterland ofthe 9th
of September:
From the Danube; Thousands among
the clergy think as dO"-such wes the
assertion which DIR. DolIinger had the
hardiho0d to make to his Bfshop; bat .
chorus Of many thousand voices gave an
swer back, "Thon errest, old man; thou
errest; thy assertion 10 q lie."
Not q single man believes It, kear
said day by day" This was another word
! we had from the mouth of the hereto of
| seventy two years old. The, assertion
| also thousands and tens Of thousand of the
clergy have denied as frivolous accusa-
! ton, and cleared themselves in the most
decided manner from the reproach Of
| hypocrisy.
| In u powerful and unanswerable protest
the clergy of tte'capital rose mp like one
man against Dollinger's insinuations and
of theirs echoed throughout the land. En-
l tire deaneries of the diocese Of Munich,
Bamberg, Eichstadt, Wnrtzbnrg, Passan,
and Spiers, Joined themselves to these in
CNo very rcep0CC0Uie hummer Oh 4utU psle6tS
Tie dioceses of Kegensburg sent TO their
Bishop priests address with 1900 names
Augsburg with l400, all promising joyful
obedience to the Church and her Supreme
Head, aud at the Same time branding. in
worthy terms. Dollinger's betrayal of the
Franciscans, and Redemptorists, made
their protest in the name-of their brethren
against Dofiiuger likewise the Benedic-
the Abbeys and Priories in Munich, Augs-
burg, Scheyren, Schaltlaren, and Andechs.
Thousands upon thousands of protests have
poured in from whole deaneries and arch
deaconries both of South and North Ger
many.
!, i-Snch was the answer given by the Catbo-
3 lie clergy Of Bavaria and Germany to the
. hereto Of Munich.
r We can only explain the light assertions
of Dollinger by the fact that he Ia a man
: simple as a child in relieving what people
: tell him, accepting communications of his
Z ''friends and acquaintance as tnfdthbte
: truth, aud that he 81 yes the most nndoubt
ing credence to the lies OF those wind-naSs
the New" and Evening Journals" which
he considers as two pastorals. Their cry
o that thousands of priests submit them
u selves to the dogma, "though they believe
y not word of It," or, that only by mean
e of q moral rack can they be brought to be
y fear keeps them from manufacturing thei
It inward g conviction )" these and such liz
10 expressions found in these papers emhoiu
oi en- Dollinger to make the lauShahr nsse,
- ton, thousands Of tue clergy think "s
~ do"
~ stands almost alone ! He called upon thou
70 sands to answer his appeal, and not even
~ dozen came forward and enrolled then
~, wv selves under the banner of rebellio
al against the Church which Dollinger ha
De raised. With very trihing exception ha,
II, nta rat
TO- their duty, but boldly and upmistakab
.e, taken their stand. They have left the o
pa hereto in the lurch SO much SO that certa
he of the citizens thought to comfort him In
that il was only "the blindness of par
ars spirit on the part of the clergy, whic
mt without any real conviction, had set the
on agaiust their old Professor. No doubt
must have been o most bitter disappoiI
ment TO expect thousands to answer
appeal which did not in fact produce
NO Dozen
his The diocese of Eichstadt furnished no
hoF man to the ranks of the rebels, nor those
GUS Bamburg, Wurtzburg, and Passau.
ne, sensburg from among 1900 priests, sent
tea deed miserable sch0oinnaster in Straubi
named Max Hort, who appealed to his O
as schoolmRster; as If, forsooth, the d
nm trine OF infallibility had anything to
on with the science Of declining nouns
coDjngating verbs But the poor man q
that this doctrine 10 only s'the product
nm party in the Church. A certain chap
seks named hunn, OF G0aaersweiler, saved -
ntch thouoEn of RheniAh Bavaria +! Augsburg
nichs represented in the rebellion by Que Re
med in Merring, and Munich furnished for
ates grand attack only three apostates, FIR
and rich, Messner, and Frohschamer But
time are not fkousdnds And thus bavaria
uted ished the bold and lying assertion OF
adro man.