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SCIENCE AND THE CHURCH.
CORREsPONDENCE BETWEEN PROF.
ST. GEORGE MIFfRT am CAR
DINiL YIUGHAN.
The Professor Rejects n Catholic Profession
Of Faith-"A Vast aud impassable Abyss
Betw.en Catholic Dogma and science"

Mlyart and Cardinal vaughan concernlpR INC
Professors articles In the Nineteenth Century
and Forth ightv Repie,r. In which he declared
that educated Roman Catholics had abandoned
the belief that the Bible Is an entirely super
natural work wholly and literally inspired. and
also presented other views practically denying
fundamental doRmas OF the Roman Church.
For that reason Prof Mivart and his opinions
we're bitterly assailed by the Tablet OF London.
paper Of that Church representing Cardinal
Vaughan. After preliminary letters had passed
between the two. In one Of which tho Cardinal
called on the Professor TO sign a formula OF the
Roman Catholic faith. which had been sent 10
him previously. as requisite TO his remaining
In lts communion, the correspondence con-
tlnued. a. We give II below. An Inhibition OF
sacramento to Prof Mivart and the formula OF
a profession Of faith referred to In the letters
We present as necessarily Introductory
NOTICE OF INHIBITION OF sAcRAMENrs.
The following circular has been sent bv
Cardinal Vaughan TO the Clergy Of the arch
diocese Of Westminster
ARcHBIsHop's HoUsr. WESTMINSTER.
FEAST OF ST. PETERS CHAIR. 1900.
REV DEAR FATHER:-Dr. st. George Mivart.
in his articles entitled The Continuity Of
Catholicism" and Some Recent Apologists."
IN the Nineteenth Century and the Fortni0hlv
Rfrien for January. 1000. has declared. or at
least seemed to declare. that II 10 permissible
for Catholics 10 hold certain hercsies-reeari-
ing the Virginia. Birth Of Our Lord and
the Perpetual Vlrglnity OF the Blessed
Virgin; the Gospel account q the Res
direction and the immunity OF the
Sacred Body from corruption: the reality
and transmission OF original SIN: the
Redemption as a real satisfaction for the sins
OF men the everlasting punishment OF the
wicket the inspiration and integrity OF Holy
Scripture tho right ~ the Catholic Church 10
interpret the sense oiScripture with authority:
her perpetual retention OF her doctrines in tho
same sense not to speak ~ other false propo-
sitIons> As he has thereby rendered his ortho.
doxv suspect. and has moreover confirmed the
suspicion by failing. after three notifications,
to sign the annexed profession Of faith when
rendered 10 him by mo II now becomes my
duty TO take further action. and | herAhy in
hibit him from approaching the Sncraments
and forbid my priests to administer Thorn TO
him.. until no shall have proved his orthodoxy
TO the satisfaction Of his Ordinary.
Believe me TO ba. Rev. dear Father. your
faithful and devoted servant.
HERBERT. CARDINAL VAUGHAN,
Archbishop Of Westminster.
+. ST il were true, as DR.. Mivart asserts
that there were persons calling themselves
Catholics, who hold any Of the above heresles,
1t would DO necessary 10 remind them that
they have ceased in reality to be Catholics
and that II they were to approach the Sacra.
ments. they woulI do so sacrilegiousIy. at the
peril Of their souls. and in defiance ofthe law
OF the Church.
HERBERT. CARDINAL VAUGHAN.
FORMULA.
| hereby declare that, recognizing the
Catholic Church 10 be the supreme and infalli.
bic guardian Of the Christian faith. | submit
therein my judgment to hers. believing all
that she teaches. and c%ondomning all that she
condemns. And in particular, | firmly believe
and profess that our Lord Jesus Christ. the
only begotten Son of God. born NJ the Father
before oil ages. in the fulness OF time. for us
men and for our salvation. came down from
Heaven and was conceived by tho Holy Ghost
and born Of the Virgin Mary-that is 10 say,
that the same Jesus Christ had no man for HIS
father, and that st, Joseph was not His real or
natural father; but only His reputed or FOSTER
father.
therefore firmly believe and profess that
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forth the Son OF God in an efrable manner by
the operation Of the Holy Ghost. an absolutely
without loss or detriment to her yirglnity, and
that she is really and in truth as the Catholic
Church most rightly calls her. the Ever vir-
gin = that is TO say. Virgin before the birth OF
Chris. Virgin in that birth and Virgin after il.
her sacred and spotless virgInIty being per.
~petually preserved from the beginning. then
and for ever afterward.
therefore condemn and reject as false and
beretical the assertion that doubt or denial Of
the Virgin Birth Of Christ or the PERPETUAL
Virginity OF the Blessed Mary. Mother OF God,
is-or n. any future time ever can be in any
sense whatever-consistent with the holy
Catholic faith. tCf Nicene and Apostles Creed
and Constitution o. Paul ". Cum Quorum.
DAM" and Clement VIII, Dom nici Gregis.'l
| belize and profess that our Lord Jesus
from the dead, and that His Body, elorifed in
His resurrection, is the same as that In which
he suffered and died for us uron the Cross
Body OF Christ rotted In the grave or suffered
corruption as false and heretical, and contrary
% the holy Catholic faith now and in all future
| firmly believe and profess in accordance
with ths Holy Council OF Trent. that the first
INN Adam. when hi transgressed the com
holiness and Justice ia which he had been con-
srituted. and that he incurred through that
preyarication the wrath and indignation OF
God. and that this prevarication Of Adam In
lurel not himself alone. but his rosterlty. and
tina, by it the holiness AMI Justice received from
Sod were lost by him. not Tor himself alone,
bntior us oil, it Council Of Trent, Session V
l frmly believe and profess that Our Lord
dled upon the Cross. not merely as Socinus
heldl 70 set US an example or an object les
son 81 fidelity unto death. hut that He might
ing our sins in His Body ppon tho tree that
the offended Justice OF God for the sins orig
fnal and actual Of all men, and that these sins
are taken. " q by no other remedy than the
merit. Of the, "One Mediator, Our Lord Jesus
.hrIst a. Ttmothy v who has reconciIed us
justice, snnct i~ication. and redemption'H IT,
Corlnthians l., 80. " Council OF Trent. Ses-
/ reject and condemn all doctrines which
deny the reality and transmission Of original
Elm. ana the perfect sufiiciency 0f the atone
ment. by which man Is reconcilcd to God in the
and contrary 70 the holy Catholic faith now and
at all future time.
firmly believe and profess that the souls OF
men after death will be Judged BY God. and
that those who are saved will go into ever
lasting lie" Matt XIV. 40, and those who
gre condemned Into e%yerlastl ng punishment"
] reject as false amt heretical all doctrines
which teach that the souls In hell may eventu-
sly be saved. or that Their state In hell may
De one which IL not OF punishment lCf Com
stiitution Of Council OF Lateran W
IN accordance. with the Holy Councils OF
bbd1eeIess y gIh % o. the Vatican, receive all the
Their perts as set forth In the Fourth Session
otthe Council Of Trent and contained in tha
ancient Latin edition OF the Nulgate. a. sacred