The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-11-22
MIR. GLADsToNE's PAMPHLET,
His Rallying Cry to England Against the Catholic
Church.
ARCHBISHOP MANNING's LETTER
THE POPE ON THE RAMRh,
THE ENGLISH PRESS ON THE GREAT DIS
CUSSION.

The following important dispatches an
peared in last Sundays N. Y. Herald:
LONDON, Nov. IA, 1874.
The controversy between Mr.. Gladstone
and Arch bishop Manning, respecting civil
allegiance, has created a profound impress
sion among all classes.
MT. Gladstone's pamphlet is entitled
Ahe Vatican Decrees." 1t is a political
expostulation, formally challenging Eng
lish Roman Catholics to demonstrate. IF
possible, how the obedience now required
| by the Pope can be reconciled with the in
| tegrity of their civil allegiance.
1t refers to his previous question, pro-
pounded in his article on "Ritualism and
Ritual" in the Contemporary Revie,o.
! whether handful of the clergy are or are
| not engaged in an utterly hopeless and
visionary effort to Romantic the Church
and people of England. In his magazine
article Mr.. Gladstone doubted whether
s sucn scheme had been possible at any
time since the bloody reign of Mary, add
ing that if it had been possible in the sew
enteenth or eighteenth centuries it would
still have become impossible in the nine
teenth, when Rome has substituted for the
proud boast of semper eadem a policy of
violence and change of faith; when she has
refarbished and paraded anew every rusty
tool she was fondly thought to have dis.
used when no one can become her convert
without renounciog his moral and mental
freedom, and placing his civil loyalty and
duty at the mercy of another; and when
and ancient history.
Mr.. Gladstone reiterates these views in
his pamphlet, aud, while withdrawing
nothing from the main attack, SAYS that
undoubtedly these allegations are of
great breadth. The pamphlet centres upon
the proposition that no one can become a
convert to Rome without renouncing his
moral and mental freedom and placing his
civil loyalty and duty at the mercy of an
other. Mr.. Gladstone then proceeds to ex-
pose the subterfuges by which Catholics {
endeavor to lessen the stringency of the
,laim which, he further insists, Rome has g
et up by the Vatican DEGREES to direct and L
control civil obedience. Upon this point
lie Is very explicit, declaring that the Vati.
an Council established even wider claim
han infallibility- claim of alb. T
olute and entire obedience.
Thus, Mr.. Gladstone says, the Papal net
weeps a multitude of facts, including Il
mole systems of government in all parts ri
the world, including even the United e,
tates, where the severance of Church and d.
tate was supposed to be complete. A long al
dialogue might be drawn of subjects G
rowing the competence of State domain in
ndeniably affecting the Church, while in hi
orope the circle is still wider. ~
He therefore calls upon Catholic citizens d.
Their to demonstrate that the powers ali
nAmeu ny Gne rope ana aunerence to the ia
atholc communion cannot impair civil an
legiance, or else, when such claim is nj
ade, to repel and reject it, like the late nj
shop Doyle, of Kildare and Leighlin, Pc
no answered this question by the decIara- Lin
IN that he would use all the means in an
8 power to oppose intermeddling. In ut
3 arnment to the people the ex Premier th,
ys that the Catholics, when emancipated, tn.
We their allegiance to the Pope and not inC
the sovereign of England, and that they ella
no So ireland, he ADDS, will in the net
nre be governed without reference to pri
"a SnoNc,sm. lea
hr. Gladstone expresses the decided de,
mon that the real object of the Vatican 7
icy 10 TO renew the struggle for the tenn dis
al power. He ridicules such a project, CID
adds that it is difficult to overestimate of
effects OF the strife. 1t would probably the
pardize the peace of Europe. He ex- life
eses Ieare on this subject, and, by way iJaI
eo ~ " aslons quotes Archbishop Man ma
Re rau7phlet on Caeeariaru RI,