, 1875-09-18

TIE TRIBUNE day OF two sinco contained
cahlo dispatch from London to the effect
TINT the Madrid correspondent Of tho Lon.
don 1t"ta had sent that paper q summary OF
the recent circular Of the papal Nuncio to tho
Spanish bishop. The summary was Us fol.
lows:
tbs Nuncfo clains tho fulhllment Of tho copcort,t
which forbaa tho exercise OF any nun-Catholle creed
requires tho ransfcs Of tho uupertutandece over otu
cation to the eleFgy and pledges tho cooperation Of
tho secnaf poWcr In suppraas!ng licreical teaching
anu literature He says Of tbs CAUSES Of civil wr
The way In which religious unity has been nlsunder-
Hood by pfcfious Govcrnment. For thcso fe1sons In
view Of these consequence the Holy ses beicyes Itself
strictly Obliged to present thelo observations 10 tho
Government.
The renders Of The Tn1ausE, in casually
glaucing over this London dispatch, have
probably not takon in tho full import Of its
meaning, or may haye passed it ovor on only
another Of tho mouotonous episodes Of tho
long struggle between tho Popc and tho
European Governments. There is, however,
Eore than ordinary importance to bo at-
taehett To those instructions when they arc
read carefully and thoroughly, and they nro
worthy of more than mere cu1sory attention
from tho fnot that the Nnncio is tlo pope
himself by pro1y. IIe represents the in
falliblo presence Of the Pope, and when ho
speaks tho Pope speaks. "Tho Nuncio
claims the fuldllment OF the concortlat which
forbids the exercise ofany non-C Catholic creed. !"
Now how are these instructions to bo en-
forced &? There arc today between two and
three millions Of Bpaniardn who are not Ul-
tranontanes They are young men who are
disciples Of what is termed tic Now Learn.
ing; who aro studying, investigating, aacs-
tioning, doubling, and examining for them.
salvea the propositions Of scionce, and who
refuse to swallow all that is put in their
mouths without first tasting Of it, They
will havo nothing to do with supsrstitions
and mnmmerica. They think and act for
themselves, and, while they arc Catholics and
will not rocant their faith, they will strenu.
ously deny The right Of tho Church
to control their private consciencea
in secular matters, Now, how does
the Fapal Nuncio propose to make this large
class OF Intelligent mon conform to Ultra
1nontanis1n A mere proclamation will not
effect it. Ten thousand procla1nations might
bs issuel, and, 1t some means were not found
to enforce them, they would not change or
affect tho belief Of q singls soul A change
Of belief can only be effected by rcason, ar.
gumont, facts, persuasion, moral suasion, and
the force Of example. The papal Nuncio
must convince these men that Ultramontan-
isa is right, and that tleir opposition to 1t
IL wrong In logic and In truth. lie ,nuat
produce in them q mental change similar in
Its processes to that which took place when
thoy abandoned and discarded Ultran,ontsu-
is1n. The mers dietu1n OF the Pope will
not effect this. All the proclamatious
aud foundations he may issuo will
not effect 1t. But tho -papal Nuncio
does not propose to uso argument or
reason Ho demands the cooperation Of l,o
secular power to compel conformity to the
l!ltra1aontano creed, to superintend cduca-
uon, and to suppress " "heretical teachipgs"
and hberal literature. but all that involres
a resort to force md to the modes Of the IT.
tsenA and sixteenth centuries. It ueceaai.