New-York tribune., 1875-01-23

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and unity Of view which creates real OF want OF
moral unanimlty IL the Council.
bishops less take part IN T. and concur I'm IN
sC e there s PGPG and oso he
without any modification Of the dean"1n s on
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saying that the want OF moral unsnimy mas NOT oeen
And further II tho definition Is consistently received
by the whole body OF the faithful as valid or as tno en
preston truth then too IL Will claim our assent oy
the force Of tho great dctum, Sse~ jud'eas ore Ter
This indeed is broad principle by which all acts OF
the rulers of the Church ratified. But for NJ. We
might reasonably question some OF tho past Councils or
Also wrote as follows to friend. who troubled
at the in which the dogma was passed. In order 70
place before him In various points Of view the duty OF
| receiving IL:
"I have been thinking over the subject which Just
now gives you and me- with thousands Of others VINO
care for religion 50 much concern aha. mako me say
that mere majority IN Council as opposed 10 ,nofa M
unanimity, In itself creates an obleaton 70 s
dogmatic deerees This point Of history and PreCe
dent, and OF course on further e1smlnstV t y % amd
precedent but do not cannot see. that majority In
the present Council OF itself rule It's own sumciency'
Rn tSere are other means by which can bo brought
under obligation OF receiving doctrine as DOGMA
tradition OF the divinity OF our Lord or where ngn
pr ppobaby Confirmed by the Church Thus psrtou
lar Catholic might be nearly that the promise TO
IN Scripture proves Sat It the n fo Sl
such by the absence OF any Judgment on the part OF
nS so 'a 'no mot sueent to
| formal SynOdal act, would at once put him In the
position and lay him under the obligation Of receiving
the doctrine as dogma that is, 1t with its
| anathoma. o,.. A. ,-,
ture or Tradition can be brought to contradict deBi
tion the fact OF legitimate Superior having defined 1t,
interna assent For myseIf ever since was Catholic,
have held the Pope's infalliby as matter OF tneo-
Which neeeSsatiiy oontradcis Scripture Tradition or
History and the Doctor M Escos has 1s s ns pSDs
In this do NOT receive it on the word OF the Ooun
| And confess the TACT that all along for many
csruries The head of the Church and teacher OF tho
faithful ana xichf M OF obtv % Gse % opsa argymept in
sS"r ssYo,' q, tba yaIidifv dit Of his claim
iarvi VI to u5 o. raoai,,no tha dogma stiII mt
Se Sres authority OF the Council or with accept
of the validity OF Its aGt per &C. Is tne % a ion
tnat our Mercu Lyd WU u, W" vh oe H 40 IN allow
elect people the multitude OF ne s az ~ sbons
10 lead dnem INTO erIoI, auu "a n % .ccent tba doc
error This eonsideratOn ioaHs S 70 Tom b Ennoc
trne as dogma, & Gr uuoou @ ,n the Pons and
Dut not 80 mEcn ho irou a. RIaSons Tbe ouestion ia
| not whether they nau . rlght 20 imPoses % ,.I VI
even we're rlght 10 lmposlng tne uSSma 0n 'uv iat %
ful but whetner navlng g uUno 80 So h , o Fer, M nom
cation to accept H. accordihg 10 the maAn' fefi ho"
debut iaotum valet o,oro .,o ,nor,,v had me,ted
away ips,Sts on rtaI c}pm nn onr recepton eyen
WOULD nave not rsssed nonear,r but in some in
nougn ~ were os r ipstaoce t nsa Parismentary ak
dlrect way; as IoI nsanoe " use .at oitan, of
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Council tene zen ~ some T sS,0 o th thtrd Ecumenca viii
ment or the nurcn. .nh ha Tue 'l'u IS r ,ho 80 ~
ton in dispute was settled ana SenRed even % I Ge
tain constituent portions OF tae Eplseopa oouy ~ 1 go
Of the Bishops then present aganst o. wnen .ng re-
manins 80 aIrVuI' n oo hS % hn orr,ad tbev scfnaiIv
no ,i,aa the Ea,hers Who carried it nose NUN
hs ee,s 10 have stood altogether at l2i against ILL.,
ond 3u tb,s sate OF disunon the Council ended How
"0 supnoso must be considered compliments, and
| inteSrai nortons OF the Council The heads OF
| ence with each other and at the end OF two
wears their derences with each other we're arranged.
There ara those who have no belief In the authority
councils at ALL and feel call upon them to dscrmi-
n wbo are so ferce against the vatican and so re-
spectfui toward the Ephesine, should consider what
good they have for swallowing the third Council
The Council OF Ephesus furnishes us with another re-
men who we're in the minority at Ephesus TO think
that faith OF the Church had been brought into
| which they had unsuccessfully opposed. They
| had done so from their conviction that that definition
gave great encouragement to religious errors in the
opposite extreme to those which it condemned and, in
| fact think that humanity speaking the peril was
treme The event proved TO DO So when twenty years
anerward another Council was held under the success
OF the majority at Ephcsus and carried triumph
any very whose eventual had been
predicted by the minority. But Providence 10 never
wanting to His Church ST. Leo the Pope OF the day
inerered with this hereticai Council. and the inno-
vatng party was stopped IN It's career It's acts were
Cancelled at the great Council OF Chacedon the Fourth
Ecumenca which was held under the ropes guidance,
and without OF course touching the definition OF the
Third which had been settled once for al trimmed tue
balance of doctrine by completing H. aud excluded tor
ever from the Cnnlch noSe sfposS whSh TO
received some sanction hl Epuesus' ire 10 noning OF
course tnat can oe reversed III Tue Vatcan uennons
but should tne heea ARISE tMnSn Is not neiy W 90.
right false Interpretation, 9ner L3o VIII oe gwen
| US for the occasion; IN monte Domihus 'iuool
| CONCLUSION
have said all that consider necessary In order
to uhll the task which have undertaken, task very
painful to and ungracious account great mis-
fortune, last words, as they are likely % be.
| should be devoted TO controversy Win Que whom
| have always so much respected ana admired But
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