The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-24
GLADSTONE.
THE LEADER OF THE ENGLISH
LIBERALS IN A NEW ROLE.
PAPALINFALLIBLITY VERSUS CIVIL
ALLEGIANCE

PAPAL LINFALLIBTLITY VERSUS CIVIL
ALLEGIANCE.
THE GREAT CONTROVERSY OF THE AGE-ENG-
LIsH CATHOLICS ONCE MORE ACCUSED OF
DIsLoYALrY.
The London correspondent of the New
York Tribune writes as follows:
Since the. appearance Of Mr.. Gladstones paper
on r4tuaIism in the Contemporary REVIEW Ior
soctdaer last. it has no longer been possible for
any honest man to repeat the s1uplo cSiuHiDS
mat the late prime minister of Protestant Eng
land was a secret convert to the Roman Church
Cartain Messages In that article reused the fury
.of Roman Catholic writers to an unusual piich.
TIL attacks made by them on Mr.. Gladstone
have led him to reply in pamphlet whlch VIII
he ont on Monday, and theneeforward Mr.. Glad
stone viii have assumed the position of one
of the most conspicuous antagonists
of the court of Rome. Not.
should say at once, the position of an enemy 70
Roman Catholics, or an assailant OF their reil-
gion such, but OF the resola6e fron
the throne, but from behind the throne e.
prompts the movements Oh me tne ,,;tI aoy,,oct
the pope himself he speaks always Win respect
and Kindness, and of the great oooy OF roman
Catholics with bFothery love and enaTlty: T. Inc r
forthcoming pamphlet 10 De puollsneu oy niI.
Nnrrav hears the title, "The Vatican DEGREES, In
their Bearing CIyiI Allega1Ge ddSH fGSa Ss
nominates It tract, and devotes the
first twelve pages OF sddns IL 70 an an
Confemporary Review he was discusslng-at
the moment-the question whether hsnoIul
of the English clergy are not engsSeo o IN R an NJ.
ize the church and people OF England; ana thls
was his answer: -. r. 49,
has such scheme been possible. But II II mad
been possible in the seventeenth or elShteenth
ble in fhe nineteenth; when Rome mas substltu-
ted for the proud boast OF Semper eaueIh a. loilcy
of violence and change In 1altn Wnen sue sS naS
refurbisDed and paraded anew every rusty tOOI
she was fondly thought to have d1sused; when
no one can become her convert s5ouH Wl5nOut 'd re
nouncing his moral and mental lreedon, anu
placing his civil loyalty and duty al the mercy
of another; and when she mas equally rePuol-
ated modern thought ana ancient hlstory'
WV Up. GLADSTONE WROTE HIS PAMPHLET.
This was what provoked the attacks 10 which
he thinks il proper to make some answer. But
he insists that both the assertions and his
present answer are defensive, not aggressive
that neither the abettors Of the papal chair nor
writer's from a papaI point OF view have
a right 10 remonstrate with the Worto al
the fullest right to demonstrate "nrst win ms
holiness, secondly with those who share his pro-
ceedings, thirdly even with such as passtvely
allow and accept Them" And the pamphlet Z,
in Substance. what he calls Ii, pOlltlcal expos
tulation, addressed mainly TO English Roman
the recent declarations by the supreme aulhor-
ity of their church, they can reconcile thelI
aileoiauce to that church with the purity ana
Integrity of their civil allegiance; and setting
forth, with singular clearness and power the
claims put forth by Rome 10 override the oOllga-
fions Of civil al egiance. In doing this, Mr..
Gladstone eschews not only renglous Dlgolry
as such he declares he has nothing TO DO. III is
only in Romao theology thrustlng itself into the
poiticaI discussion. This fact-the fact that the
pope of Rome is q trespasser on ground Shlen
belongs to The civil authority, and that he az
tfons of the civil -Phere-is the whole and sole
cause OF the mischief. No other Cnristian body
makes anv such pretension. All others con
civil order: never pretend that the state Is
not its own master; make no religious
claims to temporal possessions or advan-
tages; and, consequently, never are an perllous
collision with the state" or the mass OF 10 10
same thing. But not so with the leaders. II
has ever been made matter of boast that the
Roman Church is the only church or com nun
ity protesting to be a church which
DOES NOT SUBMIT OR OBEY
or hold it's peace when the civil governors OF
the world command, and the boast is by nc
less a person than Archbishop Manning. And
the pretensions of the church are not diminish
ing, but increasing. In the middle ages Rome
claimed universal monarchy. The Rome o.
to-day has abandoned nothing, retracted moth
sBy condemning (as will be seem those who
pores with aggression, she uncondit' onally
If covertly, maintains what the medieval
popes maintained But even this Is not the the
national chutches and communities of the
middle ages, there was a brisk, vigorous and
constant opposition TO these outrageous claims
an opposition which stoutly asserted its own
orthodoxy, WI ieh always caused itself to be re-
spected and which even sometimes gained the
teentk century of ours, and while IL
hcaya mi If fuliCiQlfV
guished within the Papal Church, by the recent
decrees of the Vatican. And il is imposs BILE for
plain, when such documents are subjected in
good faith to a strict examination as respects
their compatibility WITH civil right and the
obsdienee OF subjects"
FOUR PROPOSITIONS DEPENDED.
It's impossible, therefore urges Mr.. Gladstone
for persons accepting those DEGREES to complain
when such documents are strictly examined "a
to their compatibility with civil right and the
obedience of subjects. In defending his Ian
guage respecting them he alters nothing, bat
divides the incriminated passage into four sepa-
rate numbered propositions, viz:
l. That "Rome hes substituted for the proud
boast OF semPer eaden, policy OF Vielence and
q That sue has refurblsked and paraded anew
every rusty tool she was Iondly thought 10 have
diSused.
3. That no one can now become her convert
without TenOuneing his moral and mental free
doE1, and placing his clvu loyalty and duty at
the mercy OfanOtner.
4. That She e. Rome'D has equally repuaiated
modern thought aud ancient history.
The first and fonrth OF these be considers to-
gethsr and disposes of "ratheT summarily," be-
cause atrey appear TO belong TO the theological
domain" They refer TO a fact and they record
an opinion. The fact is that in days within llr.
(IIadsfone's memory, "the constant, favorite,
and Imposing argument of Roman contrOver-
sialists was the unbroken and absolute identity
in belief OF the Roman Church from the days of
our Savior until now" while now, and ever in
creasiDgly during forty years this is replaced by
theasseriiens of "a living authority ever ready
doctrine according to the times"
Instead OF the constant appeal 10
history, we have the unmeasured power of the
theory of development. The opinion Is that the
recent papaI DEGREES are at war with modern
thought. which is a question of divinity. but
undoubtedly the opinion Of the great majority
of the British public; and that OF 1870 incurred