The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-11-17

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the greedy eye and fine hand of bloody
Bismarck was at the bottom of it all. He
coveted the property of the Church, and
hit upon that as pretext to confscate
such Church property as he could, under
laws that he himself framed. Thus
Catholics were made to suffer for what
was called new doctrine, when in fact
it was doctrine, as said before, as old
as the Church itself.
L propose to prove that we do not owe
civil allegiance to the sec Of Rome. but
on the contrary the better Catholics we
are the more loyal citizens we become.
You will remember when they were
trying to entrap our Savior they showed
him piece Of money, and his reply Rem
dor unto Caesar the things that are
Caesars, and unto God the things that
are God's.' In that reply is contained
the whole argument of civil and reli
gious loyalty, our duty in the natural
order to the state, and in the supernat
ural order to God The Church has
again and again in her councils pro-
claimed this doctrine, notably in the
council of Chalcedon in AS, the three
councils of Constance, of Constantinople
and of Florence, the council of Trent,
and she again proclaimed it at the coun
Gil OF the Vatican in 1873.
Cardinal Manning in his reply to the
pamphlet of Gladstone thus defines
what the infallibility of the Pope signi
fes:
The fourth and last chapter of the
constitution Of the Church defines the
infallible doctrinal authority of the Ro-
man Pontif as the supreme teacher of
all Christians. This chapter opens by af
frming that to this supreme jurisdiction
is attached proportional Grace, where
by it's exercise is directed and sustained.
This truth has been traditionally held
and taught by the Holy See, by the
Praxis of the Church, and by the ecum-
-enical councils, especially in those in
which the east and the west met in
union together. It is then declared that,
in virtue of the promise of our Lord, 4
have prayed for thee that thy faith fail
not A perpetual grace of stability in
faith was divinely attached to Peter and.
his successors in his See. the definition
then affirms That the Roman Pontiff,
when he speaks ex Cathedra-that is,
when in discharge of the Office Ut pastor
and doctor of all Christians by virtue of
his supreme apostolic authority, he de-
fines doctrine regarding faith and NOR
ais to be held by the universal Church,
by. the divine assistance promised to him
in blessed Peter, ls possessed Of that in
fallibility with which the Divine Re-
deemer w1iled thai His Church should
be endowed for defining doctrine regard
ing faith and morals, and that therefore,
such definitions OF the Roman Pontlf
are irreformable of themselves and not
from the consent of the Church, Car
diual M aiming further says: "The de6ni.
tion limits the infallibility of the Pontlf
to the acts which emanate from him Ex-
Cathedra. This phrase, which has been
long and commonly used by theologians.
has now for the first time bees adopted
into the terminology of the Church, and
in adopting it the Vatican council fixes
it's meaning. The Pontitf speaks Elk
Cathedra when and only when he speaks
as the pastor and doctor of all Christians.
BY this all acts of the Pontiff as private
person, as private doctor or as local
bishop, or as sovereign of state are ex-
cluded. In all these acts the Pontif
may he subject to error. In one and
only one capacity is he exempt from it,
that is when as teacher Of the whole
Church, he teaches the whole Church in
things Of faith and morals Cardinal
Spondrati, writing in 1884, explained this
truth as follows: "rhe Pontiff does
some things as man, some as prince,so
as doctor, some as Pope, that is as head
and foundation Of the Church, and it is
only to these Qast name J actions that
we attribute the gift of infallibility. The
other we leave to his human condition,
as, then, not every action of the Pope is
papal, go not every action of the Pipe
enjoys the pspal privilege, this therefore
is to act as Pontiff and to speak Ex-Ca
thedra, which is lot within the compe-
tenc;y Of any (other) doctor OF bishop
Cardinal Manning also affrms that the
definition limits the range, or to speak
exactly, the object of infallibility to the
doctrine Of faith and morals, it excludes
therefore all other matter Whatsoever
The great commission or charter OF the
Church is in the words Of our Lord: "Go
ye therefore and teach all nations, teach
inR them to observe all things whatso-
ever I have commanded you, and behold!
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