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In 1880 the Inquisition at Rome, with
the approval of Plus VIII, though still
declining to commit itself on the Do
TRINE involved, decreed that, as
to PRACTISE, confessors should no
longer disturb lenders of money at
legal interest.
COPERNICAN THEORY.
In 1915, Calico was summoned be-
| fore the InQuisition at Rome. Sunory
theologians of the Inquisition having
been ordered to examine two PROPOSE
lions which had been extracted from
Galileo's letters on the solar spots, al
ter solemn consideration for about a
month rendered their unanimous deei-
sions as follows: THE FIRST PROF
OSITION, THAT THE SUN IS THE
CENTER AND DOES NOT REVOLVE
| ABOUT THE EARTH, is FOOLISH,
ABSURD. FALSE IN THEOLOGY,
AND HERETICAL, BECAUSE EA-
PRESSLY CONTRARY TO HOLY
| SCRIPTURE" and THE SECOND
PROPOSITION, THAT THE EARTH
Is NOT THE CENTER BUT RE-
| Wolves ABOUT THE SUN, IS ABB
SURD, FALSE IN PHILOSOPHY,
AND. FROM A THEOLOGICAL
/ POINT OF VIEW, OPPOSED TO THE
TRUE FAITH"
| In the beginning of March, 1916, the
| Congregation of the Index. moved
/ thereto, as the letters and documents
now brought to light show, by Pope
Paul the ". solmenly rendered de-
/ cree that THE DOCTRINE OF TIE
| DOUBLE MOTION OF THE EARTH
| ABOUT ITS AXIS AND ABOUT TIE
SUN IS FALSE, AND ENTIRELY
| CONTRARY TO HOLY SCRIPTURE;
and that this opinion must neither be-
taught nor advocated; the same de-
cree condemned all writings of Copper
| nicus and ALL WRITINGS WHICH
AFFIRM THE MOTION OF THE
| EARTH" The great work OF Copper
nicus was interdicted until corrected
/ in accordance with the views Of the
Inauisition; and the works of Calico
and Kepler, though not mentioned by
name at that time, were included
among those implicitly cond enned az
affirming the motion of the earth.
The condemnations were inscribed
upon the Index; and, finally. the pa
pacy committed itself as an infallible
judge and teacher to the world by pre-
fixing to the index the usual papal bull
giving its monitions it's most solemn
|
works denounced or passages chndefan~
ed was to risk persecution in this
world and damnation in the naxt.
In 1864 Alexander VII prefixad TO u G
Index containing the condemnation OF
the works of Copernicus and Calico a I
all books which confirm the motion -
the earth a papal bull signed ~ him
self, binding the contents of the Index
| upon the conscienceS of the FalratCi.
This bull (SPECULATORES DOMUS
ISRAED, confirmed and approved n
express terms. finally, decisiyt''y. and
| infallibly, the condemnation o. All
books teaching the movement of the
earth and stability of the sun.
In the 18th century Cafixtus III
alarmed at the appearance of comet
solemnly decreed several days of pray
er for the averting of the wrath OF
God, that whatever calamity impend-
ing might be turned from the Chris
tians and against the Turks. And that
all might join daily in this petition
was then established that midday
Angelus which has ever since called
good Catholics to prayer against the
powers of evil.
In 1880 there was published, by au-
thority of Pope Gregory Kill, the
Roman Martyrology, and this, both as
originally published and as revised in
1910 under Pope Urban VIII. declared
that the creation of man took place
5199 years before Christ.
In the Sth century Pope Zachary de-
clared himself against the doctrine of
the sphericity of the earth and the
antipodes. He cited passages from the
Book of Job and the Wisdom of Solo
mon against this doctrine; he declare
it ..perverse, iniquitous,' etc.
At the end of the 18th century Pope
Boniface VIII. without any of that
foresight of consequences which might
| well have been expected in an infalli-
BILE teacher, issued a decretal forbid
ding a practise which had come into
use during the Crusades, namely the
separation of the flesh and the bones
of the dead whose remains it was de-
sired to carry back to their own coun-
| try This prohibition soon came to be
considered as extending to all dissec-
ton, and thereby surgery was crippled
| for several centuries.
The Agnus Dei-a piece of wax bless
ed by the Popes own hand and stamp
| ed with the well known device repre-
senting the Lamb of God was consid-
cred, in the middle ages, to be of such
marvellous efficacy in dispelling hail,
pestilence, storms conf1a grations and
entertainments that it's manufacture
and sale was by a papal bull of 14Il
| reserved for the Pope himself and so
solemn was the matter that he only
performed the required ceremony in
the first and seventh years of his pom
tificate.
In medieval times it was universal
ly the custom to bless the bells Of
churches and monasteries as a protec-
ton against ''the powers of the air,
and in the year 96S Pope John III gave
this procedure the highest ecclesiastical
| sanction by himself baptising the grea1
bell of his cathedral church, the Lat
eran, and christening it with his own
name.
PAPAL CONTRADICTIONS
Innocent I. and Gelasius l., the for
mer writing to the Council of Milevis,
the latter in his epistle to the Bishops
of Picenum declared it TO be so indis-
pensable for infants TO receive COM
munion that those who died without it
go straight to hell A thousand years