The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-21
TO be- else they should not provoke me to one word

| 10 De- ols0 Cney suOulu provoke me TO one WOro
| in reply to them.
"denne" the great doctrine OF Pontifcal inialbil-
| ity. The two first letters addressed by me to the
| HERALD on the Gladstone Manning controversy
were in reply to editorial statements made by
| you did not presume TO take up the contro-
versy formally or officially, thinking at the time,
| that to others in eminent position this belonged
| exclusively. In my third letter-DecemDer 81
arrai2nec Mr.. Gladstone for iI-faith or ignorance
In mistransatng and msrepresenting the very
| Pontincal documents on which he based his SEX.
posuation." My charges then made have since
been amply sustained In DIR. Newmans ex-
haustive "Letter to the Duke OF Norfolk" and the
positions taken on civil allegiance in the two first
| letters are substantially the same maintained by
DR.. Vaughan, Archbishop Manning, and after all,
| by one whom no title can make grearer-Dr. New
| man himself
This much say here because the HERALD al.
ways sets on the name OF 'Prudenrius' over
against definition OF Papal Infallibilityn which
| have left studl0usy alone.
| Next, as TO the accusation Of my mtsunderstand-
| ing the terms "UltramonJane" and sUltramon-
tanist," this may suce. Iobiected to the superad-
ding OF the name .Ultramontanist" to the familiar
and definite one OF "Ultramontane," just as l, or
even y0u would object to tho laying aside the ap.
pelatOn OF 'OathOc' for that Of "CathOllcist" be-
slowed upon the great old Church spite or igno-
rance by some religious or political opponent
| The name Of "Ultramontanen was local; It desig.
nared In France (never much in Germany the
Catholic theologian who upheld in all their legiti-
mate length and breadth the traditional preroga-
tives or the Roman See. Their opponents in
France were denominated Cltromantani, or CALI.
cans. It were useless now to discuss or explain
terms.
With all Difference to "Uhlric Won Hutton, /" do
not admit that UltramOntanist Is interchangeable
| for Ultramontane. simply afflrm two things
that there exists longer In ST. Sulpice or In the
SorbOune, the great nurseries OF Gallicanism, one
single professor who still maintains the old Gal.
! lican doctrines, or who has not adopted with
| heartfelt acquiescence the Ultramontane or Roman
| doctrine OF Belarmine as defined by the Council
of the Vatican; and next, that in the French
hierarchy not one individual Is to be found at this
| day who does not, with Bishop Dupanloup 1.-THE
foremost and most eloquent defender OF Galllcan-
ism), adopt the doctrines defined IN the constitu.
ton Pastor Eternus Of July, 1870 as Catholic anu
revealed truth.
"Uhlric Won Hutton" judges me wrongly II he
| thinks that have been needless of the revolu-
tons, political or religious which have been or are
taking place IN European Christendom Ihave lived
too long IN Europe, and had too favorable OppOr-
tuniles Of observation, not to read "the signs OF
Inc times" Nor the ''unincanon" OF Italy. Dor
the Second Empire in France, and alternately
| overthrow and restored the Bourbons in spain,
'though claiming to be neither prophet nor
the son OF prophst.n Nay, more. when, during
friend the Right Hon. william MonselI nov
Baron Emily introduced mis- BIN for the repeal of
senters, what heard and saw in the House Of
Commons st Its second reading made me Ieel con-
vlnced that TIDAL wave was rising In English
test oath. but both the Irish and English establish
ments. This my friends here and In England
know to have been my proclaimed conviction.
You can say at this distance OF time whether was
blind or not to ''the signs Of the times"
There are other mOmentOus changes coming in
them advancing with the STEADY, iron cold.
motive on a midnight train. God knows, DO not
desire these changes: l would fam see England
unity Of purpose, because on their a p' being
supremely great anu preponderant In European
dom, as well as the sure progress OF Christian
/ am ifee to confess, too, that another dream was
caressed by me during my l0n1 stay on the Con-
tinent OF Europe-that OF seeing the Iberlan and
Italian pennsulas restored to their former place
of power while cnerishlng their hereditary venera-
ton tor the Catholic Church and the Holy See;
that OF seeing the great German race united In a
ton OF power as between themselves, but organ
lied so freely and so strongly as to external ma.
| or aggressive purposes. say nothing OF Ireland,
| Poland or Russia.
now, with the distinctness with which perceive
my own existence, that in all these aspirations
See, and especially with the venerable Pontin.
! whose length Of years Is not more extraordinary
than his love OF popular liberty, popular rights and
exprossed but time fails me to do better. and
something within me urges me to write 1t now.
No, we Catholics are not blind to what is pass
ing at the surface Of things In the wide world Of
religion and politics. We see that the first OF
the great social revolution accomplished In the
sixteenth century is followed IN our own days by
a second act. The first severed the union OF CHRIS.
| tendon under the pIetext OF reformation; the
second is destroying Christianity itself under the
pretext OF social regeneration and progress
The organization Of the German Emrire Is now
made the pretext or the occasion OF utterly blol.
Catholics as SUCH Chancellor and EMPEROR as
well as the majority IN the Imperial Reichstag, are
used as blind tools BY radlcalism and revolution.
decades, become names OF the past IN Germany,
Just as the miserable puppets or royalty are sure
looked beneath the surface OF European society
does not know and say thisa Who that has TAKEN
where the heads OF Italian. Spanish. German and
French radlcalism meet aad conspre, does
intriguing, lying. tyrannlzing over one vast pow
der magazine, which may blow up at any moments
dynastles disappear-will the Roman See or the
Church OF God disappear In the convulslons We
more fearful COMMISSIONS and that IN the mSst Of
| desolatIon more utter even and widespread
Than that when is at hand she renamed as the
sole saving, enlgntening and regeneratng social
force. No. We lear neither Won Bismarck nor
Wilhelm l: The Church, our great Mother. viii
say requiem over the grave OF the German Chan
celor as she did over Pombal's corpse unburied
for fifty years; she will bury the German Empire.
| as she buried the Roman and the Greek and the
| French. But she knows, we know, that the
Roman people and the German and the French
Will outlive dynasties and empires, and still look
IN their need to the Church that has been to them
the source OF civilization, OF true and certain
knowledge In laws. morals and arts; In all that
! makes life happy here and lifts the hopes OF man
| be, ond this present existence.
| This knowledge, this happiness, this certain
| basis OF all progress and prosperity, neither
! radcallsm, nor revolutionism has yet supplied TO
| single nation or single tribe. sUhiric Won
| Hutton" IS utterly mistaken when he SAYS or
supposes that the Vatican DEGREES have created
! a revolution within the Church, and made the
whole body Of Catholics take up the position oc-
! cupied before by an extreme and paitry faction.
There has been less OF c0mmotiOn, less OF trouble
| dissensiOn or discussion even than wnen, in ais
the majority In the first Nicene Council condemned
| the large and powerful Arian minority headed by
the iavorite OF Constantine, and soon to be backed