The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-01-26
From the Soathwestern Presbyesrian.
JeSuitical Infallibility.

Our Romish neighbors have ut last 1onna f
something to say about our remarks on tne n t
anxiety to proceed to another brancn o. sno
trived to say, and how long it has required 70
extreme meagreness of Jesuit resources.
Using an impression has been produced tnas ;
the Jusuits are somewhat romarkaDI9 Lvi ;
tact, fertility Of invention, ana aoro
Possibly the Jesuit capacity was oyer;raseo;
probably our familiarity with the dipiom;a.oSS
Of American politicians has MADE 10 a9"HI rats
with q higher grade of Jusuitism: at any ra.o
after noticing the display they have made .5 40
this discussion, we must abandon the sraoi.
tional idea of Jesuit astuteness. Loosing ~
cipitating the downfall of the Papacy IA E1-
rope We must say, that in all the arts 1os wnicn
they have been distinguished they seem ,no;n,
out man even in this community, VINO mas
gained some.notoriety during the past Few Yeas
In official station who while only ct n .h.sss
points struct Father Beckx the General anu
ali the subordinates, down even to the writer
on Papal Infallibility o,,as IN.
faiiible, although the teachings Of History
point to very different conclusion. But no
that the Jssuts nj the
Pope, except in so far as he is q plant tool IN
their hands. Nor did our intelligent Teaaers
expect that the champions Oh Papa rr 1h to
o.ss n ;. Rr:t We ali expected and we had Q
right to expect from them. some little snow OF
learning and some little tact an% s and in con-
We have confined ourselves mainly to expos
ing their futile attempts at evading and mis-
REPRESENTING the points of the discussion. In
doing SO as it appears to us-we nave mace
some rather serious charges: we ela nov ' en
peet them to meet those charges falriy out
} have they met them in n manner oreditabis to
, Jesuit We think not. j
We cite one instance out OF many as an
: again we proved our thesis by the citation
Of perhaps twenty OF thirty passages from the the
Fathers of the Church Not one OF these mas
? exception of two. One from Tertullian in which
it claims to differ from as In the 'cesght gscen % tae
tert. Another is text from st. A4gusnne
: In auoting this an accidental over-sighs occur
: ed III giving all abbreviatiou of his Language
! generally used by authors instead OF she e&ac'
- words" 49,. -
l. A SAMPLE OF THE ARGUMENT.
This parapraph we select as a sample of thei
argument. And as they have already Puol'shet
in their own Paper, refutatlon OF every az
70 serton it makes our readers WI see tn m,.
:. places them in a somewhat ridiculous light
,, For instance, they say: that they ,'cite:
. twenty or thirty passages from the Fathers.
In their paper Of Avg: i0th, faey b aa Int aa
- make make us recall that fact They say we hay
only controverted Two o! tnose pass@Ree'
b their paper of Sep. LIST, they pub lish our chal
n ienge to verify the others. And in their pa
- per Of Jan. 18th, they inform their readers tina
It soualiy frauds and forgeries Is it good Jesuit
ism, 10 recall that factf They say that tneir Iol
l. gerry of Augustine is an abbreyiation OF some
a s Ioeass q an apostolic See having
~ there were o number of apostolic Sees The
he change this to Roma locuta. !" Rome havin
spoken as if Rome was the only apostolic Sc:
This saw they, is only abbreviation! Was
ne good Jesuitism to recall public attention
Id this unblushing fraud' ,..-. 49,,
o. the weight given" to quotation from Tertu
liam. If We can judge from the trouble tn
NJ passage gives them, we take IL tnas our oP'i
otherw Use they would have produced the pa
In sage instead of trying to conceal it. Wechargt
with in atSer
tations from the Fathersand they ,S have new
Tor to falsfy the true version OF 5nat Passage
d. charged them with having published this o.
nv declaration in their Paper OF Dec. 9TH, wltho
daring to deny it. They published Ia 81 We We.
in prevarication, and our challenge to verify it
- our office. and dare not answer the challonl
And after the public and EePGasea t
pile on the top of 1t an additional one, In
rrv we only "claim to differ-as to the weight
the PASSAGE"
cid even perjury are authorized by Jesuits, wh
at. it is thought one can detect it. In this CO
they call public attention to their argument
TO sing paragraph of which, contains eight fall
op hoods in as many lines. -
Mt To such considerations our neighbors chet
=. fully reply-"what has that got to do with II
upt It has this to do with it. When o witness in
he'd case is proved to be false witness, All his
eek timony is rejected as worthless. Falsus
rn- uno, falsus in omnibus"
-, HONEST IAGO
e.. Some Simple minded reader may say, b
'no can it be possible that such learned men
on these writers should be SO unscruplous n
3 of who "cite the ancient volumes" of the Fathe
- men who uuote Greek and Latin men "
uu' speak 80 knowingly of lall the councils; n
cen who quote the language of all the Popes u
rye who talk SO fluently of history, and doctrlI
ber men who have pushed their learned researc
n into every department of knowledge And q
'me is not to be denied that in every paper u
ted have written, as the one bristling with ret
inc ences which we publish to day, they assn
1as the entire credit Of having produded the ar