The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-11

ARCHBISHOP MANNING's EXPLANATORY WARNING
TO PRESS WRITER'S ON THE PAPACY-THE
CHURCH ON CIVIL ALLEGIANCE.
The following letter from Archbishop Manning
appears in the January number OF Aacnaillar's
Mo0aztne:-
To TIE EDITOR OF MAcMILLAN's MAGAzINE:-
LA SPEZIA, Dec TO- 1874.
SIR-The postscript to an article on Prussia
ana the Natlcann IN your December number needs
an answer, and IT shall be gwen. For a writer
VINO atirms that the head o. the Catholic Church
claims to be the ''incarnate and visible Word OF
GOan nave ave- reilly compassion. Either he
exceptional want OF knowledge Is worthy
or all pity; or, knowing better, he Is an
counsel this gentleman TO draw his knowledge
rom pure and more authentic sources than
Janus" "Quirinus" and tine "Old Catholics" OF
Munich. They Will only mlslead him. II Is pro-
lusely evident that he has not yet learned the
first principles OF the matter he treats with sucn
Vatican cerks.' A writer who believes that the
Vicar OF our Lord claims to be the '1ncarnate
Word" has given 10 the world the measure OF his
knowledge, or OF his fairness, or OF both. IT Will
be Time to discuss the constitution, that ''Unum
sauctum." with him when he has not only read
Kirche and Chrstlcher otaat," in which the
accusations Of the Munich Old Catholics are fully
fe1useu.
The writer disclaims In his article, page 172, all
intention OF impugning my personal good iaith.n
am glad to hear IL, because he did so III his last
fore me- He there Clearly Implies "a charge OF
duphcty In the use OF the Queens English. Let
me Tor the last time advise TINS gentleman to use
only the Queens English, in which he will find
none OF tue mechanics and none the dis
courtesies whicl stain mis- writings: and Also Tor
the last time, 1 VIII say that an adversary who
cannot believe In the honor OF those who are Cd.
posed to him not only always strikes wide, but
deserves TO have mis- spurs hacked of and to be
led out OF the lists OF honorable Controversy. What
| nave publicly affirmed l shall publicly Justify
not before your nameless correspondent, but be.
fore tribunal IN which gladly recognize right
to know what believe and what teacn.
VIII now turn TO the postscript. In 1t ind an
interroQatoIy OF I'VE questions, followed by these
peremptOry wOrds-ln imitation 1t would seem OF
a late Prime Minister-not little comic:-
"Igegufre plain answers in PLAIN English"
wnDse Competence reject They shall be gwen
plainly anu promptly to all into whose hands his
interrogatIve alse witness may fall, lest they
should be mised 10y ".
The writer asks
/. did Dr. Manning himself and the bulk OF his
clergy consider themselves before the Vatican de-
crees as absolved from their allegiance to the
British Crown 20
ADswer-No.
ii. "If Dr. Manning and his clergy did not so
consider themselves aDsolved, is It, or is IL not,
TACT that since the Vatican DEGREES they are dog
matlcahy bound at the I'll OF their salvation TO
consider themselves absolved IRON That ALE
gianceT
Answer-lt is not a fact. Neither nor they
consider ourselves TO be aOsolved from our alle-
glance, and the Vatican decrees have not so much
as touched our allegiance.
III. ais 1t not certain that the Irish Bishops and
the English Vlcars-Apostoiic did not consider
themselves as absolyed from their British ale
glance
Answer-Most certain and equally certain that
we hold ourselves 10 be equally bound by that
allegiance.
not so bound by the ties OF allegiance TO the
Crown OF the country IN which they are actively
employed ana having to obey code OF laws rad.
ically different rom those or taat country, may
come into collision with the latter 2"
Answer-Every sentence In the question Is
either absurd or ialse. ! and nay clergy are bound
l,v ha rfal m allpQIance--Cnnh
'code OF laws" he meant civil laws, we have 40
SUCH CODE II by 'code OF lawsn he meant spiritual
and religious discipline, there can be no collision
unless Fax laws be introduced into England.
V. "Is DE-. Manning perfectly certain That cases
have cot already arisen Within his own jurisdlc.
ZION IN which clerical persons rave been brought
TO conflict OF Jurisdicuon," or nave decided
tSio since 1870 Ia favor OF the cuial jursdiotlonr
Answer-I have no knowledge whatsoever OF
any such cases. If any sucn nave arisen they who
dealt with them since 1870 otherwise than they
would nave dealt with them before 1870 have gone
astray. Ihe vatican Council has not 80 much as
touched any such possible question OF the civil
jurisdiction.
Before the Council met party at Munich
prophesied 70 the world that is DEGREES would
they stroye In every way to bring down the pres
sure OF tue civil governments OF Europe 10 hinder
the freedom OF TIE Council. The Council stead.
lastly did It's duty, and defined the purely spiritual
doctrine OF the authority and nahDllity OF the
mead OF tue Church. u was this tney really
definition fatal to their literary authority and
70 their personal Importance.
From that hour their Efforts have been re-
doubled 10 bring down the cIvll powers upon the
Catholic. they have succeeded In setting the
German Empire on fire; they are now endeayor-
ing 20 set fire 20 the civil ana religious peace Of
our three Kingdoms. The whole network OF this
mischief, the methods and the men, are well known.
But it Will not succeed. The mOmentary stir and
suspicion unbapphy raised by great name Will
Ia little while pass away, and the English people
Will not only know that the Vatican DEGREES nave
not cnanged so much as Jot or little OF our cIyi
allegiance, but that Catholics are better evidence
as 10 their own religion than those VINO are now
teaching us the meaning OF our councils and cate
cnising us about our loyalty. remain. sir your
faithful servant. HENRY EDWARD,
Archbishop Of " CO minister