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Wrst intraliait SUBIACO, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1874.
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Austria and next of France, wesild absolute in matters of religion. What is this but " Divus Cmsar ?" easily fall under the power of the It is the re-uniting in one person of the Evangelical Empire, as Prince von but espaatiati two powers which God boa 'operated, $iamarok mills it. I (Concluded.) not only e! the supremacy his own words. In the Prussian House yithhathaftpirsiii Gummy. "The and a denial, of the spiritual power of the Church of of Peers, in 1870, he spoke as follows:We must regard this doctrine as Evangelical creed, which, as must be Christ, but a denial that any such " Peace began to be disturbed after i, my your Holiness, like to revived Paganism. In the Prussian known spiritual power of Divine institution the war in Austria, after the fall in 1866 Chamber, Dr. Falck laid down the ancestors and the majority of nly subof the Power which was the bulwark of exists upon earth. This, as we have following doctrine on the 15th of jects, profess, does not permit us to the Roman influence in Germany, and seen, was formally enunciated by the other relations in our to any God accept become have We last January Emperor in his letter to the Pope. when the future of an Evangelical Christ." Lord than our Jesus mediator the estimated have we ;' more 'concrete Now, we might at first sight wonder Empire showed itself clearly on the it impossible to suppose that As is the is There State. rights of the how such a preposterous claim could horizon of Germany. All tranquillity the august personage whose name is reason why the proposed laws must be have been set up in the 19th century. was lost when the second-rate Catholic letter this could intend that to he attached carried." On the 17th of January work which at agencies Power in Europe had followed in the But are there claimed to had be a mediator Pope added-" If the State and the Church the will account for it. First, there is, way of its predecessor, and Germany are equal in the domains of mortal power, between God and man, except as the from perhaps, no country in garope became the first great military. Power the State must always have the Chief Pastor of the Church of God, which the Christian faith has been more for the moment, and, according to the the taken to deny words must be That these law. of domain the in supremacy completely wiped out than Prussia. It will of God, for a long time." any any such Church under of remarksexistence Pressense M. de as is to say, Does Prince von Bismarck fear for became Christian in the 13th century ; bearing Divine authority ministry the such that saying to " This amounts it fell into the Lutheran heresy in the the stability of the first great military This denial, coupled with earth. upon equality of Church has all the benefits 16th ; it has developed into simple Power of the world ? What could the the assertion of supreme power over the in the domain of abstractions, on the rationalism in the educated, and into Catholics of Germany do against him ? to equivalent of Germany, is power Catholics condition that the State has all of the millions the among materialism would they ever have desired What an absolute and unlimited the claim of in the domain of the concrete'-that is, people. The idea of a Church with but its perpetual stability, if it had only Ctusarism. The recent ecclesiastical Right is a theory ; Force is the only spiritual authority is simply effaced. dealt justly with them, according to the legislation, which violates both religion reality." The civil power, with its military existing laws ? Prince von Bismarck conis the legitimate of conscience, essence and the out brings This organization, is the sole ideal of power creates resistance by persecution, and supreme Pontificate. of this only not sequence is w Lich ; modern Clesarism before the eyes and the minds of the then pleads that resistance to justify the to laws, key the This is the Falck over power supreme that the State has population of Prussia. The the persecution which has called up thnt Protestant sum as follows are in effects of which causes, and the Church in all persons and the resistance. There was no resistance to First, they cut off appeals to the possible fusion of the Lutherans Church but supreme right to determine the Evangelical an into Calvinists the existing laws as they stood before causes declaring all by that Holy See, limits of the rights of the Church, its has prepared them for the return of the the new Feick legislation. It cannot mustbe determined by German tribunals. liberties, offices, and duties ; or, in be doubted that the object of the Falck old rule-csjus regio ejus religio. other words, that the State can deter- This cuts the Church in Germany from laws is to render impossible the exisWe have seen how the vivid conthe centre of Catholic Unity and front mine and the Church cannot determine sciousness of the Divine authority and tence of the Catholic Church in Germany jurisdiction. its universal commission -Pond authority the is what -that is to exterminate it. I say this office of the Church has restrained and power of the suspend they Secondly, Founder. DMne its it by to intrusred saved Italy from greater tevoluticalty because no Cat:wlic, without sin against concurrent the apses excommunication contention. the in 'This is the vital point God, can obey these laws. Every man excesses. There is nothing of this kind which is authority, civil the sole, sanction of the to be claims The Church or to save Prussia. Li restrain who obeys them ceases in that moment to its judicial Church of of the deprive judge to because the Divinely appointed of God, it is Church the rejecting to be a Catholic. Can we, then, for a and who are who are office, of deciding power the sphere of its own spiritual moment imagine that Prince von Bisdeifying Cesar. We are going back authority, and jurisdiction. The modern not of its communion. Old World. marck was not aware of this ? That he Thirdly, they give to the State the into the barbarism of the Casarisni claims tins ultimate power And this is not said as a mere stroke of acted in ignorance, or unconsciously, or State. office of forming and educating the the of determination for rhetoric or of controversy. There has on misjudgement ? That he so little Between these conflicting claims there clergy, but compulsory education in the knows the Catholic doctrine and disbeen for some time a school of writers universities and lyceums, gymnasiums, To concede vicendi. modes no can be in Germany labouring to restore the cipline as to expect obedience ? He to the Bishops to leaving of State, spiritual the supreme this or to abdicate Just as the does not desire it. He wished for a Coesarism. Byzantine men on of theology a course for superadd It was office would be its death. the satellites of the pretext and has made it. Nobody can whose whole intellectual and moral jurists were this that a long line of its martyrs died. of Germauy, and Emperors mediaeval doubt that he knew to the full extent a by State shaped It was for this that St. Thomas of nature has been as Machiavelli and Gravina and Hobbes the violation of conscience and of faith Canterbury died, which the other day training, and even in their theological have been the apostles of Royal suprewhich he was inflicting. These laws examinations the presence of a commiswas described as his "exploits." It is macies and modern Erastianisin, so the can be no otherwise understood than as for this that the Archbishop of Posen sary of the State is required. school known at Munich as Byzantines a deliberate scheme to render it imposof power the they suspend Fourthly, readiness to die. his declared also has has been preparing the way for the sible for Catholics to obey, that they and cure of souls, giving is in it the Bishops Government, Berlin And now the The Imperial primacy of Berlin. might then be accused and dealt with to cure cure clergy from their on changing impose to attempt said, is about to name from their their got Byzantines as resisting the authority of the Emperor. power. civil upon of the the following assent every future Bishop the literary labours upon the Greek Church, But in this the astuteness of the German Fifthly, they establish an Ecclesiasoath and the canon law of the Patriarchate Chancellor has overreached itself. If tical Council, which is in fact the " The Bishops are henceforward to far affected the Falck legislation had been such as supremacy of the Crown put in com- of Constantinople. They so swear obedience to the laws of the the Government of Munich as to induce a Catholic could by any subterfuge country, to bind themselves by oath to mission, invested with a final jurisdiction it to meddle with the seminaries of the obey, even though its injury to the matters. and persons ecclesiastical loyal over to be laity and clergy the exhort Bishops. It was this school, together Church were never so great, then the to substitute is the of this The effect to obedient and patriotic to the King, with certain persons once honoured nations of Europe might have been and to invest Pope, for the Emperor clergy the to permit the laws, and not us, who used Prince Hohenlohe amongst misled into condemning the Catholics of religion power over supreme in with act him or under their control to teach as their mouthpiece in conspiring Germany as contumacious and refracand conscience, over the Church, the opposition to these principles."-Times against the Vatican Council. After tory. But at this time not a nation in Episcopate, and the clergy, as the head Friday, Dec. 19, 1873. this their ecclesiastical politics were Europe commends the Falck laws. A The cynicism of this oath is clear as of all religions and of all priesthoods in carried to Berlin, and the Government handful of strangely-assorted persons the Empire. The result of all this is day. The Berlin Governmemt supports of Prussia was thereby led to commit about a year ago went on a pilgrimage the Old Catholic heretics against the that no " official function"-that is, no itself to the patronage of the " Old to offer their incense to Prince von spiritual act, from the excommunication Catholc Church, on the ground that the Catholic" heresy. Like all heretics, Bismarck on his penal laws. They the teaching the to down heretic doctrines : of a in its innovated has Church they sheltered themselves under the were peers and gentlemen, Free Birk be children-can school Bishops to catechism Catholic bind to it now proposes power, and flattered it into the civil men and Liberals, and the preachers of the of sanction the without after all performed the State to obey the laws of attempt to carry out their Byzantine " our glorious Revolution" and of civil civil power, under pain or imprisonment, the Falck innovations. It refuses the Erastianism against the Catholic Church and religions liberty ; and now we are and, this failing, of deposition. The innovations of an infallible Church, but informed that the delegates of cities and Ober-Prisident of Posen has called on in the Empire. binds the Bishops of the Church by Finally, there is another agency towns in England are to meet next oath to obey whatsoever laws may now the Archbishop of Posen to resign his month under the presidency of Earl which has been far more potent than all Archbishopric for numerous offences or hereafter be made by a fallible State. Russell to express sympathy with present But Cassarism is infallible in " the against the Falck laws, which offences others in bringing about this Prince von Bismarck in his persecution is no manner -of There persecution. If duties. high spiritual are many so " Divus concrete." the of domain of Catholics and in his violation of has Freemasons of the sect that doubt days eight within he to resign refuse declared Bismarck von Caesar." Prince religious liberties, which for half a the up break to labouring long been in Tribunal cited Royal he is before the " the in the Chamber of Peers that century has been the special political religious settlement in Germany. The Berlin. The Act 24 and 25 Henry future of an Evangelical Empire has VIII. made the King outright Head Peace of Westphalia secured the political cry of the noble Earl. We are a parashown itself clearly on the horizon of doxical people, and somewhat too Germany"-that is to say, the Catholic of the Church, and by one stroke all status of Christianity, though divided reckless of what the outside world may into Catholic and Protestant. The Church, which is the direct antagonist jurisdiction formerly belonging to the Freemasons desired the overthrow of think of our political incohorencies. of the Evangelical Empire, must cease Pope was transferred to the Crown. But it is well to see how we are both. They thought that the time was This was intelligible. The Falck laws from before it. Such is, in fact, the regarded from without. de Pres, the Thirty what to complete come comcircuitous. and They indirect are legislation. this of effect inevitable They sense, in denouncing the Finally, the Emperor justifies his legis- pass what they do not claim. They Years' War left unfinished. persecution, has given to believed that the Catholics in Germany, suspend all spiritoal jurisdiction on the lation against the Catholic Church by weakened by the overthrow first of warning which I hope will n*, _ civil power, and make the Sovereign asserting a claim of abgolute indepen-
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