The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-05-20
DR. DoLLINGER AND THE VATICAN
lie EmphnticaIIy Denies his Exported sub
mission to the Papni DEGREES.


Some English and foreign papers have
asserted that Dr. Dunger has accepted the
Vatican decrecs ana made his submjs-iOn to
the Porte. II has also boon insinupted TINT tho
honors recently bestowed on Dr. Newman have
not boon without their Influence "a the "OnNcr-
sion NJ the iiluslruu- Gorman To obviatr tho
necessity of replying ia detail to flr numerous
Inquiries from England and America which
these rumors have Ocrasioucd. DR.. DOlhngcr
has written to the Rev Malcolm McColl TO beg
him to give the widest possible circulation 10
the true slate NJ the cnsr. Witch is as follows;
Immediately after his accession Popr Lon
srnt an Austrian prclatc to Dr. DOllinrrr with
the message: Dito nli eli" venga. prrchr 90 I'm
afro papa Tell him to come Cor there ~ an
other Pourl' Dr. D6llingrr replied TINT the
message could hardly be intended seriously,
since u mere change of persons III the Iapal
chair mnde not the slightest difference is to the
Subsequently the now Archbishop Of Munich.
mn old Uuuil " Dr. Ddllingrr's intimnted TO
him IN very delicate and friendly terms. how
earnestly he drsirod that Dr. D6llinger should
enter INTO Church communion with him. Or.
D0llingor answered. courirousy hut plainly.
that every stop which could commit him To-
faischood WIS impossible t. him. There tho
matter ended. and nl reports tn tho contrary
are pure Inventions" DR.. D6llingcr adds
that " AL that has occurred in the ccclrsinsticn
domain y since his "Ncommun cation " Is ral-
culatrd only 10 confirm him IN his inward re-
pus'on against Naticanistn ana III IN" deiprmi-
nation to hold himself altogether ulool from II"
Dr. DOllingcr has, under date tho am uf Nav.
written from Munich an emphatic iottpr 90 the
Rev. l)r Nevin. requesting MIN TO- give the most
Rbsout" contradiction to tn" ialschoods which
have been spread over all Europe respecting
his contemplated or actual submission to the
Vatican drcrccs. DR.. D0ilingcr writes:
have neither written nor done anything
which could have given occasion ior such ru-
NOR. The circumstances which are mentioned
In some papers nre Eratuituus Inventions. Only
three weeks nro / published a lecture in the
iYgeuetHe Ze,uuIg Of the 9th I'm. and Sth "
April, in which state in So many words that
nobody possess q scientific culture of mind
can ever accept the decrre- of the Vatican Cpuu-
ell. Having during the last nine years devoted
my time principally 10 tho renewed study of all
the questions connected with the history of the
pOp"s and the Councils, and. may Sav. gone
again over the whole ground of ecclesiastical
history. the result Is that th" proofs Oi tho ise-
hood Of the Vatican dccrees amount to drmon-
stration. When am told that must swear to
the truth Of those doctrines. my feeling rs Just
as i were asked To swear that two and two
make five. and not four
Shortly after his accession Leo. XIII. desir-
Gus Of winning bnck those forces lost 10y Plus
IN. commenced that policy which will receive
its full. illustration in the creations 10 Dee made
at the approaching Consistory hy sending a
distinguished ecclesiHstie TO Or. DOiluger to
call him back. The reason advanced was there
was a new Pope DIR. Dbiling"r smiled quiet
ly and replied. But the same papacy." The
Vatican had no answer 20 give TO this. and so
negotiations terminated.