The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-09-01
RNNG CATHOLIC MESSENGER SUNDAY SEPTEMBER

Behold how one suoossded another IN That order q
That .s..:: .hieA tho proud gates of Hen
Yet you think that st. Augustiue's Sedes
Apossolica was not Rome.
One may be excused, however, for false
reasoning, becasse error may be the cause
Of 1t, but it 10 not so easy to get rid of false
assertions. In this latter category is our
neighbours statement as to Zozimns. Why,
il that assertion wore true, 1t would at once
not only end this controversy but wipe out
the Catholic Church itself The Presby-
terrain ssys that Pope Inpocent having died,
the Psla 2ians appealed from his decision to
his. saccesspr, Zozimus. It asks: did
Zozimus declare . Roman Bishops decision
to be infallihle BY no means: on the
contrary, be decided the Pelagians or tho
dox aad~ rebuk ed the Afsiean Bishops for
havisg done them iaiastics. -. and
thshaths sp56Alled yinfsllibls Zoximass felt at
lesgfs cSletsatued sof svSsss IBIS hEper So
called lnfaffib'ss jadgment.n This means
that the first judgment of Zozimus was clo-
thed With the character necessary to bring it
within the limits of the Infallibility dogma,
as much so aa 1nnooeDt's decree or. as his
own Subsequent one. OF cnursss II That is
true then either Innocent or Z,zimns was
not Infallibie, then the dogma 10 Isrougand
t'len the Catholic Church is not the Church
Of Christ. F.'-t
The truth 10 that our neighbor, in order
to give some force to a very feeble arga-
ment has closed it with a telling fact, which
is no fact at all. -Zozimns never did any,
thing of the sort. On the contrary, he ex-
pressly declared that no change could be
made in a decision given by the Holy See,
but said that as Cslestius-a colleague OF
Pelagius-had denied being guilty of hold
ing the condemned propositions, it was me-
cessary to examine the charge. St. Angus
tine says of this accusation against Zozimus:
Nusqaana prorsus hoe DIRT, nusquam ons-
nino conscripsit."
- Thus, so far from its being true that all
the parties to this transaction virtually re-
jected Papal Infallibility, not one of them
did so. Not zozimus for he made no such
decision az stated not Augustine and the
other Bishops for they had NO such decree
to protest against not even the heretics,
themselves, for Pe,agius never called in
question the fnality Of. the Papal power
even when it's decision was against him.
He wrote to the Pope. saying 1'If these
our writings should be found to contain
any erroneous or rash assertions, We desire
them to be corrected by thee who holdest
the faith Of Peter" Even the heretics OF
these days never doubted the Papal Infal
ibility. ....
We hope, therefore, that our neighbor II
fully satisfied as to the Status of ST. An.
gustine. AS to Tertullian we perceive that
it will be unnecessary for us to furnish II
with q copy of that work, since it hal
found the very passage referred to by vi
and quotes most of it. 1t begins
" Traverse the Apostolic Churches" ant
ends, '.if you are near Italy you have
Rome" Our neighbor is to be compli'
naented for the success of its research ir
finding one of the passages which we indi
Gated to it, which it said could not be
found and which it solemnly pronounced 9
forgery. Yes, We are glad of. our neigh
boris tardy success but what sball we say
Of it's candor.f 1t actually stops the quota
cited come 10: "Unde nobis quoqne auctori-
tas prUsto est" That is, "You have Rome,
wheace authority is extended to us also.'
How singular that our candid neighbor did
not see our quotation, or. seeing it did not
recognize it, or recognizing it, did not re-
tract the gross calumny in which it charged
us with forging it.
AS to tie ungraceful coming down from
high pretensions of scholarship of which
the Presbyterian accuses US, we have but
two remarks to make. Ist. We are not
aware of ever having made any such pre-
tensions and think that our neighbor
transformed its own fears into an sssump-
ton on our part. ID. It's not cur infatii
bility which we are discussing but that of
the Pope. ~.
I PuNcrUAI TO ORDERs.-A French phil
osopher, of excellent heart, but somewhat
/ accantric lAtaly discharged servant. An.