The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-30
From the Southwestern Presbytosian.i
The Popes Exercising Infallibility.

They took no notice Of 1t at the time. bu'
they make make c Confession. and try to shift shs
blame on their foreman, or proof reader. oe ~
what thenf Did it take all this time to
mako the discovery If mot, they merely con,
suppressipg the fact, and endorsing the falsih-
cation by their silence.
What nexti They insinuate that this tar.
dy confession, Is owing to want OF tho " data y
they have recently obtained" This is from
" the whole cloth. )" its obvious purpose is, to
deceive their readers still further. They have
identical numbers of our paper In which the
charges were first published. We see no rea-
son u withdraw those charges.
We repeat, that dupl,city of this sort grows
monotonous.
We proceed to consider the mis- statements
of their argument, which have at least the
merit of greater freshness. They are fully an
As We have seen, Pope Lucius, III, kindly
informs US, that the laws quoted, are for the
destruction of Heretics; and Heretics are
those" who do not believe or teach the Ro
msh doctrines of the sacramento; or any one
else whom the Romish church secs fit to call
Hereto"
And Innocent Nv, as wo have seen, embod-
lee tho rescrips of Emperor Frederic in the
Ecclesiasticaf code, and comm snds princes,
cities, and others, to enforce them, under PEN
atty of accommodation and interdict.
We proceed to chapter second, Oh sept. De-
dieter, Titulus, 3.
The Emperor Frederic, ever August" etc.
The Cathari, Patarenes, speronists, Leonists,
Arnaidists, Circumcisions, Passagini, Josepini,
Commixti, Ualdenses, Riccaroles, Communelli,
Warini, Ortholini and Aquanigians and all
heretics of both sexes and of every name; we
sentence to perpetual infamy; We disfranchise
that their goods be confscated never to be re-
stored !; and also that their children be de-
prived of the right Of succession since it is
far moro grievous to offend tho eternal, than
the temporal majesty.
As to the mobiles found under suspicion only,
unless, at the command of the Church, accor-
ding to the consideration of the suspicion and
the quality Of the person, they prove their in
nocence by q suitable purgation, they are to
be esteemed rs infamous, and under the ban
and should they remain SO for o year, we
condemn them henceforth as hereto.
We decree ALSO by this edict which is to be
of perpetual force, that all authorities, con-
suls, rulers, whatever office they may hold
shall for defence of the faith, publicly make
to erterminatc by force Of arms, from the coun-
tries subject to their authority, all persons
whatever, whom the Church shall indicate to
be lOretics; in due time, aud in some form or
other, every one vested with authority, either
permanent or temporary shall be required to
confirm this agreement by oath; otherwise /;
they may not be regarded rs authorities, con-
! sufs or rulers, and we decree that their judg-
If, indeed, O temporal lord, requested and
admonished by tho Church, shall have neg
lected to purge his territory of heretical de-
pravity after the lapse Of q year, from that
may be seized and occupied by Catholics, who
having erte,minated the here.ics, shall possess it
and conserve it in purity of tho faith-this,
| to be done, without detriment to the right of
the superior lord, provided he interpose no OBJ
stacle, nor impediment. The Same law being
in force where there is no superior lord
Moreover, the believers in, the receivers, the
aders and abettors of heretcs, we place
der the ban; decreeing that when any such,
specified rs excommunicated, shall disdain to
give within n year satisfaction, he shall by
that fact thenceforth become infamous, not to
be admitted to public Office or councils, or
elected thereto, or be received as u witness.
| He shall also be intestable, 80 that he shall
neither have the unrestricted right to make a
| Will, nor to enter upon succession as an heir.
Furthermore he is deprived of capacity to hold
any one to business obligation, though he
may be SO held by Others If he be n Judge
his Judgment is destitute of confirmation, and
no eases are to be brought before him. Ii he
DO an Advocate his pleading is not TO DO adj
mitted. If he be notary, instruments of
writing drawn up by him Are of no authority.
We add further, that hereto may be con-
yicted by hereto, and that tho house of the
| Patarenes, their receivers, partisans and abet-
| tors, or where they teach, or impose hands
| upon others, are to he destroyed, and are new
| or to be restored.
| 'oh az L eD IL lnutCIlOn.
Rer Regum." Those apostatising from the
Catholic faith, We inwardly execrate, we pur-
sue with vengeance. We despoil of all their
goods. We constrain them by laws making
| shipwreck of their profession or livelihood.
| We take from them the right of succession,
and deprive them of every capablity conferr-
ed by law.
Given ut Perusum, I'd Kalend of Nov.
| Fourth year of our Pontifcate.
| l. AS to the first assertion of Infallibilsts
that the proceedings against heretics implied
| that they were notorious criminRls"-Pope
Lucius III, declares the contrary, when he
says, " hereto is one who teaches or holds
other doctrines than the Church of Rome up.
on the sacramento" At the same time we are
glad to know that the Remish church now
claims the right to rob and murder and disin-
herit the children of those whom it considers
notorious criminals"
,. As to tho second assertion that the pun
ishment of hcrctics was not by the Church OF
Rome but by the civil government, Pope In
| nocent Nv, shows it to be untrue, by insertn &
| the rescrips of Frederic in the Canon Law,
and making them obligatory on civil CIVIL
governments.
}. As to the third assertion, that the de-
crees against heretics were not Infallble, it is
contradicted by the editor of the Star when
he claims that the Popes We're "infallible in
condemning heresies."
Hero then is infallibility as the Popes I'M.
derstood it in exercise.
We conclude, that