Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-29
THE ROMAN CA HONG 8
THE B[ LIE.

1 he bL LIZ
In discountenancing the general read
ing Of the Bible in schools and else
where, Roman Catholics have ample
precedent in the history of their church.
A correspondent of the Manchester Ex-
aminer and Times cites the following in
cidents
Fact L. Pope Gregory VII. wrote a
letter to WratIslaw, 1850, condemuing
the general freedom allowed to read the
Biole i'll the vulgar tongue.
Fact 2. Pope Innocent Ill. declared,
1879, the Scriptures too profound for
the common people, ana quoted the
beast touch the mountain it shall be
stoned or thrust through with dart, "
Fact 8. The council of Toulouse,
| 1929, declared, article IA, that the lalty
must not possess the books of the Old
and New Testament; only the Psalter
and the Breviary, and these not in the
vulgar tongue.
Fact A. The council of Tarracona,
1888, declared, article 2, that mo one,
either priest or layman, is to possess u
Roman translation OF the Bible all such
TRANSACTIONS to be given up to the bish-
OPS within eight days, and to be
straightway burnt. Whose does not,
be he prisst or layman, is to be esteem
ed hereto"
Fact 5. The Synod of Oxford, 140S,
declared, article Z, that - the Bible is
not to appear in English, aud the :. ic-
ffe version not to be used.
T ct 6. Ximenes, Archbishop OF
Toledo, circ. 1900, declares g 1t is
utterly wrong to circulate the Scriptures
in the vulgar tongue. The mind of the
common p, ople is such that If a thing
is simp.e an plain they despise it
what is hidden they venerate. Christ
himself spoke in parallels that the peo-
pie might not understand. The Old
and NV Testaments should be retained
in the three languages in which the
snperscription on the cross was writ
t H."
Fact 7. When Protestants were burnt
in Queen Mary's reign, Bibles were
thrown into the flames on the ground
that they we're the books that made
the heretics"
Fact g. The council of Trent. 1868,
withholds the forgiveness of sins from
any man who shall dare even to have a
Bible in the vulgar tongue without
license from his ecclesiastical superiors
Fact 8. Cardinal Hosius, 1870, said
"To give the Bible to the laity is to cast
pearls before swine. Bible TRANSACTIONS
have done harm would not have any.
The Bible is the possession of the
Roman church beyond it is worth no
more than E5op's Fables"
Fact 10. The Jerusalem Synod, 1872,
attended by sixty seven bishops aud
clergy, decided that the Bible is not to
be read by all Christians.
Fact IL. The famous Bull of Pope
Clement XII, 1899, Unigenitus, pro
nounces it to be false, scandalous.
pernicious, blasphemous error to hold
that all may read Holy Scriptures. Ar
ticle so SO.
Fact II. That the French Bible trans
lated by Pastor Qnesuel, Romish
priest, was burnt by the authority of his
church, in 1899
Fact 13. Pope Benedict XIV, 1740.
did his best to hinder the translation of
the Bible into Persian.
Fact IA. Pope Leo XII. issued an
Eucyclical against Bible societies in
1924.
Fact Is. The Roman Catholic priest
hood did their utmost to put stop to
the circulation of the Scriptures in Ire
land in 1920 and following years.
Fact 16. Pope Plus VII. issued bull
forbidding the circulation of the Scrip
lures.
Fact II. Pope Gregory XVI. issued
an Encyclical against Bible societies,
1882 and 1874.
Fact IS. Pope Plus TX, the present
Pope, in his Encyclical of November,
1916, mathematical those very crafty
and most deceitful. vaferrimae, socie-
ties, called Bible societies, which thrust
the Bible into the hands of inexrerienc.
ed youth. "
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