New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-09-06

49,, ,,o,s Anton chose 10 disregard this admonitiOn
No was demonstrated with again. but pursued tho Same
course only speaking out his mind with yet more ueoS
ian and openness Tnenoxt stop was to suspend him from
h,s once and TO forbid him from preaching In his church.
put the populaton especially Antons own parishion-
ara were indignant at the Bishops exercise OF MS
poor and they invited Father Anton TO preach IN the
harms ana in the open air, which he did. previously
pnsuspecel talent was discovered In the dsobediont
r,5est He became local Father Hyacinthe. Thou
sands followed him. or rather appeared wherever DO
preached He made converts. Other priests were en-
oouraged 10y his example, and refused to ACKNOWLEDGE
the obnoxious dogma. Like Anton, they were VISITED
with the Bishops displeasure like him. they were OK
PEELED from the churches and preached IN the open hr
or wherever opportunity offered For some ume they
were satisfied with preaching against the Popes as
sumption Of infalibnty, and confined themselves 10
combating that doctrine They Travelled about the Aus
TRAN Provinces used their most Influential converts III
gaining vet moro followers, and entered into correspond
eDce with DJnger and other leaders OF. the movement
In Munich and Prussia
At this time Father Aois Anton, Dr. Pederzan (also
n priesO. and Dr. Lindner, a layman, were the NEST
influential Observation-Disclosures in Austria Meetings were
held in several towns By persons who sympathzed Win
theit views; delegates were sent TO Vienna ana IN inc
Winter of 1901 DR.. Lindner was elected Lay frea
dent Of tho Lower Austrian he Province OF tha name
Old Catholics, as they now termed themselves IN na
ton of the Bavarian and Baden antIntalibsts Aois
Anton was named the spiritual head Of the religious
boiy and vicepresidents and secretaries were nom-
mated for the branch associations In tho Provinces
Indner is very young man. still under so years OF age
but he had shown marked ability In his procession as
journalist and since his election to the post OF Lay
President has given plenty Of proof Of his energy and
administrative talents. may add that the term " Ola
Catholic implies that the followers OF the movement re-
ect tho "New" Catholic doctrines lately imported INTO
| the Roman Catholic Church
The Old Catholics having thus formed themselves into
kind OF organization no longer satisfied 10 con-
fine themselves TO resist tho advance OF the Inalnbsts
Their earne ness and the justice Of thcir cause II may
so write, increased the number OF their adherents
hundredod They sent out missionaries TO every part
OF Austria to preach resistance TO the new dogma ana
| spread their own views. If they had done ho'"hz
else the whole thing might have fallen to tho groulu;
but they proposed radical changes in many matters con-
nected With Papal Catholicism and this gained them
the goodwill Iof thousands dissatisfied with the errors
| and evils which had erept into the Roman Catholic
Church since the days OF the Apostles AT various meet
ngs in Vienna Linz, Graz, Brunn and Prague propo-
sails made reform some OF tine most paVehV apu
se Father Anton again took the lead ana 'propoSeu
list OF reforms which he eonsderedneeessary his ls'
received the sanction OF general meeting OF Austrian
Catholics which took place 10 Linz In the month Oh july
Before reproducing hero Aois Antons programme
in Austria nllusiOn made to the English and Aner-
High Church party. One speaker declared that me
party in the Protestant Church and the Roman
Catholics far from hard and fast one that the neil
nations Of thousands of High Churchmen Grew them
toward the Roman Church and that they were SnS re-
crept into it. The doctrine OF Infability the same
speaker continued had Wdened tho breach but III was
aSnses which ba creH into The Church Of Rome might
have the effect of throwing tho whole Protestant hg
Church party into the of the German ana Austrian
Old Catholics. At another meeting was proposed tnat
England and America should be Included among the
sionariss should DO sent, and that delegates should
be invited rom me Ga Ondt9u Saoe e1,r IN Municb
This proves that however much the Austrian Od Cath0
nc: desired tae reform i some aIses oecp in view
in framing Of their programme and either admitted
America and England, least framed their measures
Of reform 50 as to render them suitable 70 the Hgn
So far rs I can learn High Churchman has attended
SFea meetings Of Old CATHOLICS held in various parts OF
Germany and Austria. AS 70 the rules which tather An
ton drew up as guide to all Austrian Od Catholics and
which we're approved at the meeting held in Linz and
afterward presented as general plalOh or aiI atE
Infalibists at Munich in September OF last year. they
| are as follows:
IL Each community shall have tho right to choose rs
own priest, and priests longer to be named by
the bishops Priests be sufficiently paid by tho
pusorv celibacy must cease. Priests shall he allowed
TO marry, in the early times Of Christanity Inc
of the CnIch be spoken In the language OF the
county. Z. There shall DO no separate payments Ior
shall be sufficient to enable him TO live without charg
additional fees T. INEQUALITIES between the b9Giais
shall he no poInp Or extra ceremony one priest ohy
must cease. PlgTimages, begging missions and pro-
cessions snail no more take place ~ Inc woasP on
in relics must be discontinued and be proceeded against
! by the State" ..,
FOR acceptance they did not ind favor in the or
The assembled refOrmers. There was decided inclina-
iOn among those present 70 take shelter behind gener-
Ilites; and though, II each person present had peen
,1aaely asked, IL is most probable each woud have
assem- TO the IL rules body the reorers shrunk
rom ,Ae responsibility of giving Official sanction TO
item. number of resolutions were passed in which
together these resolutions covered as much ground as
TIC But the meeting declined to pass any regular
code set OF rules for the guidance Oh Od
The lead OF the movement in Austria, VINO seemed 10
IN earnest than any OF the delegates ron oter
cOurioe disappointed that no general rules were
aiG down AZ the meeting for the guidance OF al oid
tue ssenterS OF one country might follow dlnerent
that taken ny the dssenteIs OIthe
or might be either uncompr0n5ing or more luke
chan their brethren elsewhere But TINS mas not
turned TO be the As II with general consent
and sitzTland have earned out the same reforms and
the only difference between them all az this day consists
In the amount OF freedom allowed them III the prOsecu
zion of their aims by their respective Governments.
In Austria Father AntOns rules nave Deeh practically
ever an old Catholic community has been established
and there are between and 40 Of them in Western
community its own prests-some Of these have
married Plain chapels, devoid OF the usual saints
hgures and images have, In many cases, been erected
and confession is never practced. The great hght |
which the Old Catholics have now before the ana Ior
which they have prepared the way by sending In pet
tons 10 the Government Is 10 obtain possession oi Ger
tain proportion according 10 thet hnnDefs, oI ths
the original Roman Catholic Church to which the prop
ery belonged, aud also that the lnlaosts nave Tor
saken that Church by altering It's dogmas and doc
trines They therefore, that their rght 10 church
property Is better than the right OF the SatnPn9s
catholicism, while the Papal Catholics have made for
themselves new religion, and should not therefore, re-
tain tue property which rightly their own only so
long tney remained true 70 the old faith II Il highly
object; their adversaries have mighty men in high |