Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-14
Bishop Ireland's "Beliarmine."

the general and special features of the process
sion, as well as the personnel of the same,
will be given when fully determined upon.
Bishop Ireland's 'BeIiarmine."
To the Editor of the Globe:
Returning home after two weeks abb
sence l find that my friend Bishop Ire
land has returned to the attack. At the
risk of wearying the GLOBE and its read
ers, pen brief reply.
In regard to Cardinal Manning, am
happy to find that Bishop Ireland has
substantially given up the case He now
gives the real meaning of Manning and
goes SO far as to attempt to defend it.
My thesis that Cardinal Manning defied
history is abundantly sustained by these
words of Bishop Ireland GAS right rea-
son cannot contradict faith, so cannot
true history contradict faith,' the reason
and the history in either case supposed
to contradict faith must be at fault that
is the reason is not right reason; the
history is not true history, or the infer
ences from either are not warrantable"
| The curiously mingled gush and dogma
| tism which seek TO defend this position
do not need further examination.
One point only do l care to make in
this note. In one of my lectures | took
occasion to quote from Cardinal Bellar-
mine in support of the position that the
Roman church erected the pope into a
subjective standard of truth This quo
tation greatly moved our amiable contro-
versialist, the bishop. He declared: 81
had never supposed even possible in a
| st. Paul pulpit such reckless mis-
statement of cases. - s'His fraud on Car
dinal Manning is nothing to his fraud on
Cardinal Bellarmine. Again he writes:
"He cut up, twisted around, turned upside
down, sentence of the cardinals, until
he got out of it, what the cardinal and all
Catholics with him, believe to be horrid
impiety." To all this and more, put in
calm denial, which made it necessary
to prove his case. This he does in his
card Of two weeks ago, which must have
mortified any scholarly and judlcious
friends that the bishop may have. l give
now the original sentence from Ballar-
mine, and my version side by side with the
corrected translation" of the bishop,
and the public may judge how much
Bishop Ireland has played the demag sgue.
Isl autem Papa erraret praecipiendo
vita vel prohibendo virtues, teneretuer
ecclesla credere vita esse bona, ct vir-
tutes mala."
MY TRANSLATION. BISHOP IRELANDs
If the pope could Tor TRANSLATION.
should) SO far err as to But if the pope could
command the practice err by eDjoining vices
of vice and to forbid or forbidding virtues,
virtuous actions, the the church would be
church were bound to bound TO believe vices
believe vices to be goodlg good and virtues bad.
and virtues bad.
The reader of Latin will at once per-
ceive that the translations equally give
the sense of the author, and
that the one is more elegantly rendered
and the other more affected
by the Latin idiem. In treating of the
surroundings of this sentence, Bishop
Ireland misstates the case. The key is
found in the words, "nisl vellet contra
conscientiam pecare. "-unless she wishes
to sin against conscience. So
fundamental IS the supremacy of the
pope in morals that togo contrary to his
words is to ''sin against the conscience"
and that. though he prescribes vices and
prohibits virtues. The turn in the case
is found in the words, ''tenereter en;m
ecclesia in rebus dubias acquiescere ju.
dicio SUNNI pontifcis''-
doubtful things the church
must yield to the judgment of the
supreme pontiff. Once again we have
sdoubt" raised in the case of private con-
science ordering one thing and the pope
another The doubt is to be laid by sub
mission to the pope. Thus the jugger-
naut of authority rolls over the moral
n tY1ro IF man
The query naturally suggests itself,
why did Bishop Ireland make this issue?
Why did he assert that l had "cat up,
twisted around, and turned upside
down." passage of which when pressed
translation? Of course it was not
ability to render into English Latin SEN
grotesquely settle our differences by a
contest l should be quite ready; but
Ireland's purpose. 1t could not have
been real belief that had mistranslated,
for he comedies with me at this point.
But read in the Bishops last card:
Cardinal Bellarmine wrote in Latin near
ly three hundred years ago. His works,
though studied in every Catholic theologi-.
cal seminary, are not generally known to
Methodist divines, etc., etc." This lets a
flood of side light in upon the sinuous
mental mechanism that sibilates behind
the pious mask of bishop. My ingenious
friend supposed that l had quoted at Sec
ond hand, and SO supposed that a brazen
challenge of my quotation would throw
me into panic, in which the main ques-
ton could be sneered down. My antago-
mist was disappointed to find that l was
satisfied with the verification of Bellar-
mines words, and had the requisite cour-
age to stand by my colors. 1t takes
something more than bold Justification
on the part of Roman prelate to support