The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-24
pR. poIIiNaER AND TnE VATICAN.
ne RmphatisaIIy Dspies MIA Iasported
sabmiasion 10 the PapaI DecreeS,

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sahmiasion 10 the PapaI DEGREES,
Framthe tsndoa Tines
Some English and foreign papers have
asserted that d.. Dollinger has accepted
the Vatican DEGREES and made his submls.
sion 70 the Pope. 1t has been insinuRted
that the honors recently bestowed on Or.
Newman have not been without their in.
luence in the conversion Of the illustrious
German. To obviate the necessity o; fe-
plying 10 detail to the numerous inquiries
from England and America which these
rumors have occasionsd, DR.. Dollinger has
written 10 the Rev. Malcolm McColl 70 beg
him TO give the widest possible circulation
10 the true state OF the case, which Is o.
follows: Immediately after his accession
Pope Leo sent an Austrian prelAte TO DIR.
Dollinger with the message, "Dite 81 che
venga perch c'e un altro Papa Tell him
to come, for there Is another Pape).h Dr..
Dollinger replied that the message could
hardly be intended seriously, sinCea mere
change Of persons in the Papal chair made
not the slightest difference a to the situa.
ton.
Subsequently, the new Archbishop Of
Munich, an old pupil OF DR.. Dnllinger, in.
timated to him IN very delicate and friend.
" terms how earnestly he desired that
Dollinger should enter into church OH.
munion with him. DR., Dollinger answer.
ed, plainly, that every step which could
commit HIN to a falsehood was impossible
to him. There the matter ended, and oil
reports to the contrary are "pure inven.
tions.,i Dr.. Dollinger adds that "all that
has occurred In the ecclesiastical domain"
since his accommodation = Is calculated
only TO confirm him In his inward repul.
sion against Vaticanism and in the deter.
mination to hold himself altogether aloof
fromit."
DR.. Dollinger has, under date the 4th Of
May, written from Munich an emphatic
letter TO the Rev. Dr.. Nevin, requesting
him to give tho most absolute contradiC.
ton TO the talsehoods which have been
spread over all Europe respecting his con.
templated or actual submission TO the Vat.
lean DEGREES. DR.. Dollinger writes:
~ have neither written n done any,
thing which could have given occasion for
such q rnmoF. The circumstances which
are mentioned in some papers are gratuit.
Gus inventions. Only three weeks ago |
published a lecture in the AilgaAsine Ni.
lng Of the 9Th, eth and Sth Of April, in
which l state in so many words that no.
body possessing a scientific culture OF
mind can ever accept the DEGREES OF the
Vatican Council. Having during the las.
nine years devoted my time principally to
the renewed study Of all the questions
connected with the history OF the Popes
and the Councils, and l may say, gone
again over the whole ground Of ecclesias-
tical history, the result Is that the proofs
Of the talsehood Of the Vatican DEGREES
amount 10 demonstration. When | am
told that | must swear to the truth Of those
doctrines, my feeling is just as if l were
asked to swear that two and two make
five, and not four"
Shortly after his accession Leo MIL,
desirous Of winning back those forces lost
by Plus IN, commenced that policy which
will receive its full illustration in the crea.
tons to be made at the approaching con-
sistory by sending a distinguished ~eccleSi-
Rstic to DR.. Dolllnger to call him back.
The reason advanced was there was a
new Pope" DR.. Dollinger smiled quietly
and replied, "But the same Papacy.h The
Vatican had no answe TO give TO this, and
so negotiations terminated.