The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1874-01-28
HAWAIIAN GAZETTE
The Pope's EncyclicaI.


bulations Of the Church, and remarking
the progress made by its enemies all over
the world. I'm these late years" he
says in the opening paragraph, "our sor-
rows have so increased that, were we not
upheld by the mercy of God, we should
be almost overwhelmed by them Since
Rome was taken away by the force of
arms hardly a day has passed, he says,
without infiicting some new wound. Rome
has passed under the sway of men who
despise law, who are enemies of religion.
who confound all things, human and
divine" Among other Italian agrees
ions which he most deplores is that they
have abolished the Roman University,
which could alone impart that perfect and
irreproachable instruction necessary for
universal maintenance of the Catholic
faith He insists that the especial object
OF its abolition was the subversion of the
Pontifcal authority and the destruction,
if possible, Of the Catholic religion itself
He deplores the condition of affairs in
Switzerland. Busy sectarians of his own
fold have overturned the order and I'M
dermined the foundations of the Church
of Christ. He bitterly complains that
Geneva has banished the new bishop and
reformed the constitution of the church.
He enumerateS the usurpations of the civil
power in Geneva, eliminating in every
parish priest being required to take an
oath. involving, he says, actual apostasy;
and he enjoins all faithful people to regard
strangers such priests as comply with the
terms imposed by the Government of the
countries. The authorities he terms fe-
rooious wolves" In Germany, and es-
pecially in Prussia, 4 similar prosecution,
he declares. RACES more and more bitterly
The civil power has there usurped even
the instruction and education of the cler-
w, and claims to collate them to cures and
TO deprive them At its pleasure. The
Prussian Government is tull Of hostility
to the church. In noticing the Emperor's
accusation of some of the Catholic clergy,
in the correspondence that passed be-
tween himself and His Majesty, that they
had, for some time taken line incompa-
tible with the respect due to the Civil
Government, he speaks as if their offence
consisted only in their resistance to the
new laws. The work of wrong, in con-
clusion, the Pope points ont, Is the evil
done by the new heretics who call them
selves Old Catholics. In the documents
published by their pseudo-bishop, he finds
that they wish to transfer TO the populaee
the authority inherited from St. Peter
and the apostles that they stubbornly re-
iect and assail the infallible teaching of
the Roman Pontiff. audaciously affirm
that he and his adherents have fallen into
heresy by sanctioning and protesting the
definitions of the Gcumenical Vatican
Council. This he SAYS, amounts TO deny
ing the indefectibility of the Church, and
asserting that the Church has persisted
throughout the world. As there is only
one Church, if that has fallen into error,
then there Is no Church. Such is the
blasphemy, as he calls it, which has drawn
down the condemnation OF Christ on " that
notorious apoState,n Joseph Hubert Rein
kens, who dares TO call himself bishop,
and Is publicly acknowledged as such by
the Most Serene Emperor of Germany.
That he Is a bishop is simply impossible,
the Pope saws, inasmuch as he is not
Joined to the rock on which the Church is
built He declares the pretended eonse-
Grafton sacrilegioHs and invalid; he ex-
communicates, mathematics and cuts off
from the Church of Christ both him and
all who took part in his election and sac
religious conservation, and whosoever ad- [
here to or follow the same, giving aid,
favor, or consent The faithful are to alb
stain from all fellowship with them, and
are not so much as to say to them God
speed They are, In fact, outcasts from
the Christian religion. Matters are no
more favorable in America than in Europe,
the Pope thinks. "There," be SAYS, " for
some years bitter war has been stirred up
against the Church and its institutions
and against the rights of this Apostolic
See" This is so grave a question, the at
titude of America towards the Church,
that he promises to write a special address
on it. Then he approaches his conclusion
with the following shaft at Free Masons
or other sects:"
Some of you may, perhaps, be sur
priSed. venerable brethren, that the war
which is carried on at this time against
the Catholic Church extends so far and
wide. But, whoever Is acquainted with
the character, the aims, and the purposes /
of the sects-be they Freemasons or by
whatever name they are known-and |
compares them with the character and
extent of the strife which throughout
nearly the old world is waged against
the Church, cannot hesitate to assign the /
cause Of our present calamities to the craft /
and conspiracy of the same sects. From |
them Is made up the synagogue of Satan,
which Is marshalling its forces and prepar- |
ing TO engage hand to hand against the 1
Church of Christ. From their first be- /
ginnings they have been denounced to /
TO the kings and TO the nations BY our
predecessors who have watched over Is |
real; again and again have they con-
demned them, nor have we ourselves |
failed in this our duty. Would that the
supreme pastors of the Church had been /
more firmly believed by those who could |
have varded of so terrible a plague /
But the sect, winding along BY crooked |
ways, never eeasing its task, beguiling 1
many with its cunning craft, Is now burst 1
ing forth frou its hiding places and boast
ing itself to be allpoEeTfuL These sinful |
associations, having greatly increased the 1
number Of their adherents, fancy that l
they have now attained their ends and all /
buf reached the goal set before them /