Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-10

70 God, either by his own individual suf.
.eiings on earth, or in Purgatory. or
through second and extrs-sacramental
s aPPilcaslon of the powers of the church.
!, whatsoever you shall loose upon earth shall
'Vgseo IL heaye--,,' has it been said Of
me church. Ordinarily the sinner is left to-
pay himself the penalty. In certain cir
c {, when the church Judges
tna' GODS glory is otherwise more
30Yanceo' She RENTS herself the
penalty IN reward for good works and acts
OF PIety. a jubilee is the proclamation to
the. universal church that upon certain
conditions plenary Indulgence shall be
give to ell the faithful; that is the full
remission of the temporal p naIty which
each one may still have against him j., i[o
scales OF divine justice. The condi+io7,s ~
the jubilee proclaimed few YEAS 90 b,z
Leo Kill. Were-besidas contrifion -
confession required for the rerY,issior Of
san Itself and the eternal penalty due to
sln-penltential fasting, three visits In
Churches and the recitation in them of
pray ers for the universal veal of God's
kingdom on earth, and the bestoEaI of
aims. either for the poor or fer 2 york Of ra-
ligion. The aims in tbs diocese Of 81
Paul we're given to the society of the
Propagation of the Faith. What Protes~
tant Woald say that in this jubilee there
was aught irrational or shocking to pieus
Christian souls? Still there was money in
connection with it-not certainly the
price of the indulgence, but as aims, one
OF the works OF mercy which the church
desired to encourage. and which she
nance as one of the conditions for gain
i-g the jubilee.
Bear in mind that always and ever
when an Indulgence is announced, either
il is said plainly, or it is manifestly Tn
derstood that before the indulgence can be
obtained, sin must have been previously.
RENTED through sincere penance. An in
diligence is never remission of sin; it
has no connestion directly with sin. It
remits simply the temporal penalty remain
| ing due after sin has been forgiven.
| diligence to the souls in pargatory she
las no direct pswer over those souls. She
| sinply teaches that the living can offer
gesd works to God with the prayer that
the satisfaction given to him thereby be
| applied to souls in purgatory, and that in
ease Of an indulgence when tho living have
by their own fulfllment of all the eondi-
| tie1s required to gain the Indulgence, be-
come entitled TO the remission OF
temporal penalties, they can bsseesh God to
| allow them 10 transfer this remission from
themselves to the suffering souls. The
Catholic doctrine of the communion Of
saints makes all this quite intslli-
gibls; 1t is one Of the sweetest and most
esnsoling OF eur doctrines.
THE INDULGENCE OF LEO x.
What IN indulgence or jubilee is to
day in the church it always was. The in
diligence proclaimed by Leo X and preach
ed in Saxony by Tetzel was of the same
nature as the indulgence proclaimed not
long ago by Leo XIII-with the sole differ
enee that the aims in the case of the form
er we're to be applied to the building of
the worlds cathedral, st. Peters church.
It was proper that all Catholics should
contribute towards this temple, in which
were to rest the remains of the prince of
the Apostles; it was proper that it should
be tuit to surpass in magnifcance
of proportions and splendor
OF details all other temples in the universe.
To aid in its erection was q pious work,
which the pontiff with every right could
mark out as one of the conditions Of the
jubilee. Other iubilees had been pro
claimed previously in Germany, and the
aims had been,bY order of the pontiffs,ap-
piled to local good works, among other
things to the building of bridges and the
opening of highways. An indulgence had
been granted in Wittenberg, the aims be-
ing applied to the building up of it's uni
versity. Rome was not the greedy, "a
pacious tyrant, selling spiritual favors for
money to BIZ poured into her own lap;
since when she did offer indnlgences very
seldom-if ever before Leo. X.--were the
aims asked for good work within her
own walls.
The Official documents relating to the
indulgence Of Leo X. give the lie to the
stories Of prejudiced writer's and show it
IN its true nature. In the pontihcal letter
ii is stated that the indulgence is given to
shose who being traly oontrite and having
confessed their sins, fulfill the conditions
prescribed by the Pope. Leo proposed no
remission of aims as the effect of the in
diligence; nor did he omit to say that this
remission should have been previously OBJ
taiRed through contrition and confession.
Kostlin publishes sac-simile of the let
ter. Beaides the giving of aims, visits to
churches were required. The instruction
of the archbishop of Mainz to TetzeI
and other German preachers is extant. He
says that Gall persons who repent of, con-
less fasting their sins, who receive holy
communion, say certain prayers in seven
different chu ches and contribute according
to their means to st. Peters basilica shall
| obtain full remission of the TEN poraI
punishment due Tor their sins, and that
this indulgence may be applied By way of
| intercession to the souls of purgatory."
Tetzel wrote letter to all the parish
| priests, whose churches he was TO visit.
After Luther's attack on induIgences, he
composed long treatise on the same sub
| ject, and in both documents the true and
exact Catholic doctrine is laid down with
out exsggeration OR room for misappre
hension. So little was there in the aD-
plications Of the indulgences to merit the
name of traffic or sale, that the faithful
offered according to their means what each
one believed he could afford. The poor
had the giving of aims committed into
other works. The priest who applied the
indulgence was not permitted to receive
the aims. Luther in his table talk often
amused his friends in the Black Eagle
t&vefa with stories Of TetzePs tricks to
west large sums fmoney from the peoE O
and OF his fables told to delude and deceive
simple souls. The stories were faucifuI
@ e tior of Tpkbar's ex hjlarn{e1 brain No