The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-01-13


COnscQacpcS Il that dogma Is the supronac,
cf the ecclesiastical over the civil power wher,
they cOn6ict Moreover. the right claimed fOl
the hieTarchy 70 regulate Marriages, and then
doctrine that no marriAge contracted by N,
civil law is valid their CLAIMS in rogari Q,
NUuals and edeoOtion, the PLAIN text Of IN,
syllabus and the latest Encyclical all imply
that tho highest and most sScrcd allegiance d
all men is to Rome. and not % any secular Do
tcntatc or power.
On our fourth page viii also he found Arch
bishop Manning briefwply to Mr.. 6ladstope's
pamphlet, He rcpels the imppta,iOn upon the
loyalty ot the members Of his communion, and
declares himself ready to show that the prin-
Ciples that he has ever taught are "beyoud
impeachment on that soOrC" he further III
Sists that the Vatican DEGREES have made no
changes in the obligations or the conditions Of
civil allegiance; that the civil allegiance Of
I Catholics is as undivided as that Of all Chris
tians, and Of all men who recognize divine or
natural moral law; that the civil allegiance Of
/ all men who believe in God, OF are governed
by conscience, is in certain sense divided,
and that the civil allegiance Of Catholics is
limited neither more nor less than that Of every
Christian man in England. The Archbishop is
no doubt right when he says that the infalli-
hihty Of the Pope is no new doctrine. and that
it has always been maintained by the Church
But it is one thing 20 maintain such doctrine
in reference to matters purely religious, aud
quite another thing to apply it to all the rela-
tons Of life, For this Church claims jurisdic-
tion over so many things that it is hard to tell
where the line of demarcation is to be drawn.
If this Church is infallible, and may claim
exclusive jurisdiction over SO many things, the
functions of the State become exceedingly
doubtful
In a speech delivered in London and report |
ed in full in the 7SaeS the Archbishop said |
that "he could see that they were on the very |
eve of one of the mighticst controversies the
religious world has ever seen. Certainly |
nothing like the controversy on which they /
were about to enter had taken place during the
last coo years, and they must be prepared.
If they would only prepare themselves, he did
not fear for the DEGREES of the Vatican itself.
But they must have no half-hearted measures.
They must have no half-fearful, half-hearted
assertion of the Sovereign Pontif4s claims.
They must not fear to declare to England and
to the world the Sovereign Pontiff's claims to
his right to temporal power, and
the duty of the nations of the earth to return
% their allegiance to him. If they do this, if
hey proclaimed this with no uncertain sound,
Protestants of England and Protestants
throughout the world would hear them, and
)e convinced. If, on the other hand, they
minced matters and spoke in half-fearful meas
lres, Protestants would only turn away from
hem for their want of honesty. Protestants
new well what they meant and what the ,
laims of the Catholic Church were, and there
ore it would be best for the Church now to
peak out, and he had no fear for the result" $
This controversy is almost identically the ,
anne as is now going on in Germany, nor is it |
kelly to stop in England, with the two dis {
nguished names who have commenced it. @
Gladstone had lost ground with the old-fash-
med Professionalism of England not only by S
is Irish church policy, but also by his recent f
assent from the anti-ritual policy of Parlia- t
lent, and Disraeli was carrying the day with n
he anti-Popery spirit by his defence of that \
olicy and his fierce onslaught on the Roman 5
ing tendency in the English church. His
val has now gone ahead of him in that direc- Il
on, and declared that allegiance to the Pope il
disloyalty to the crown and constitution, o
ID that no true Englishman can be thorough
ing and consistent Roman Catholic. Arch o
shop Manning calls him to account for this A
'sition, and the International Convention of 81
oman Catholics, soon to be held in London, G
omises to bring the discussion to point,
ID to draw out fully the present policy of g
1me as to the rights of nations" OF