Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-27
Archbishop Manning and Lord Acton
AnsWer-The Irish Tory and LIbe-
raj Papers Comment
UnfavOrsbly.
The LOndSa Press In Review Of 1.-THE
Premier Severely Bsnaled-Dr.
D0llInger's Share In the
Pamphlet.


physicians had prescribed it as essentia
to the restoration of impaired strength
| Within 8 month, however, he contrib
uted to periodicals some OF the fruits O
his classical studies, and an elaborat
volume on the same class Of subjects
now understood to be in preparation
His article on Ritualism in the COnten
pordry ReUielO was an effort in totaIll
different direction, and while the echoe
OF the excitement which it produced We
ring in our ears, he sends forth bulky
pamphlet on The Vatican DEGREES a
their Bearing on Civil Allegiance. 1t
material portions appeared in the Libera
daily journals on Saturday, and already
| the controversial world is in armi
upon the subject. Archbishop Man
ming this morning sends brief rejoin
der 70 the Times, Lord Acton presents
! MS views through the same channel
| MOnsignor Capel is credited with an ar.
| ticle TO appear in the next number Of the
Catholic Register; and, generally, tbs
Roman Catholics are in arms, indignant
and dIsgusted, but with 8 certain apollo
geIic and mOurnful tone which indicates
a consciousness of trouble and difficulty
A brief reference to the leading points o.
Mr.. Gladstone's work is, then, desirable,
not only that his own position may be
ineligible, but that there may be dis.
tinct conception of what may be termed
the key note OF a controversy which
promises to be memorable and import
ant, The pamphlet is described by it,
author as political Expostulation," ,"
and the cause assigned for its publication
is the correspondence elected from RO-
man Catholic friends by passage in the
article on Ritualism rejecting on their
loyalty to the civil government.
Mr.. Gladstone insists that after the
singular steps which the authorities OF
their church have in these last years
thought fit to take, the people of this
country, who fully believe in their 10y
altyn-that is to say, the loyalty of the
queens Roman Catholic subjects" are
entitled, on purely civil grounds, to ex-
pect from them some declaration or
manifestation Of opinion in reply to
that ecclesiastical party in their church
who have laid down ia their name
principles adverse to the purity and in
tsgrity Of civil allegiance" There is a
semblanee of mockery in the form in
which this demand is preferred, but the
whole spirit of subsequent pages shows
that, so far as Mr.. Gladstone is con-
cerned, it is preferre1in good faith. And
yet the way in which he states his case
virtually precludes the possibility of an
acceptance Of the invitation he holds
out. For he sets forth series of propo-
sitions, and endesvors in detail to
demonstrate their truth, with view of
proving their practical servitude Of the
Roman Catholic. The first proposition
is, "That Rome has substituted for the
proud boast Of senpeT eddenl
policy of violence and change of
faith;" the last, "That she has equally
modern thought and ancient
history;n and on these he expends little
for the reason, as he says,
that they belong 'rather to the theolOg-
ical domain" Two intermediate propO-
sitiOns are those TO which he mainly de-
votes himself. One is that Rome has
and paraded anew every rusty
tool she was thought to have disused;
and he quotes from the Encyclical letter
Of 1864, full list Of these, which re-
luire for their efficacy only hand ca
pable OF welding them with the fierce
temper Of medieval days. Seventeen
are cited from the Syllabus
the liberty Of the press, of
of worship and OF speech;
the upholders of the su-
Dlemacy Of the State in every form
those who contend that
Dapal judgments and DEGREES may be |
iisobeyed without sin; those who hold |
hat Roman pontiffs and ecumenical |
councils have transgressed the limits of |
heir power and usurped the rights Of
princes, and those who hold that
the church may not employ force"
There is really nothing absolutely new |
q this portion Of the pamphlet. Its /
ignificance lies in the fact that allega-
ions which have hitherto done ser
-ice only in theological controversy are
low imported into the conflicts of poll
icians. They are treated by Mr.. Glad
tone as preliminaries to his third pro.
'osition, upon which he expends the
reater part of his argument and illus
ration. 1t afiirms that "Rome requines
convert who now joins her to forfeit
is moral and mental freedom, and to
lace his loyalty and civil duty at the
mercy of another" and it applies OBJ
iously and directly TO converts like the
,arl OF Ripon and the Marquis of Butte.
ir. Gladstone shows that in 1925, when
be question Of Catholic emancipation
coupled the attention of parliament,
be English and Irish Catholic bishops
epudiated the idea Of papal infalUbility,
nd explicitly declared "that aneither
be pope non any other prelate or
ecclesiastical person of the Roman
,athOlic church has any
ight TO interfere, directly OF
ndirectly, in the civil government,
nor to oppose in any manner
he performance Of the civil duties
which are due to the king" The Irish
Roman Catholic hierarchy, in the sam,
declared "on oath their be-
ef that ii is not an article O: the Cath.
lie faith, neither are they thereby re-
uired to believe that the Pope is fnial-
ble." On the same occasion, Bishop
boyle, when asked what the Roman
'atholic clergy would do If the Pope in
with their religion as thus
replied: "The consequence
'Ould be that we should oppose him by
very means in our power, even by the
xercise OF our spiritual authority
ince then, as Mr.. Gladstone contends
he Papal authority has grown ike the
[omeric rumor, till it "hides In heaven
S head, - and overshadows the earth.
ishOp Doyle, In 1925, described the
oil lyman Sanctumn Is "odious -
Manning now speaks of it
: the accepted doctrine Of the church,
nd asserts that "sny power which
independent, and can alOne"-
: Rome alone can-''fix the limits OF
s own jurisdiction, and can thereby fix
le limits of all other jurisdictions, is,
$50 tdcto, supreme" Mr.. Gladstone
rgues that this bold revival of medieval
assertion Of absolute
lpremacy on the part OF the papacy-l
preliminary to an organized effort
mong Catholics all over Europe 10 re.
ore the temporal sovereignty. The
onclusiOn, in the words of the PAM
hlet, is that there is a fixed purpose
mong the secret inspirers of the Roman
oiicy to pursue by the road of force,
pom the arrival of any favorable oppor-
unity, the favorite project Of re-erectine
be terrestrial throne Of the popedom;n
nd the fact that in this country, as in
very other European country, there are
hen with more or less influence who
re formally bound, II not actively to
Id, at any rate not to impuQn or resist
his policy, is Ruduced az proof
danger, and ss Justification
the demand that English converts to