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Cornea? of Canom?attonu Scene I. ? An Antechamber in the Vatican.
Enter Father Ignatius, Father Dominic, and Father Francis. Father
Dominic. A truly imposing and venerable assemblage, Brethren It is
said that more than six hundred Bishops have come together from all
parts of the world, besides a countless throng of lower degree.
Surely it must be causa quam dignissima, some object of supreme
importance, that brings together so many of our most venerable and
reverend pastors, at such a cost of time, labor, and money, to say
nothing of the peril of life or limb to the Shepherds, and
privation to their flocks. Is it true that the Infallibility of our
Holy Father the Pope is at length to be made an Article of the
Faith ? Gemit ecclesia et con- gemuit creatura; the world is
sighing for a basis to the vast superstructure of doctrine which
rests upon that fundamental dogma: and heretics marvel, and the
Catholic mind itself is filled with astonishment, that the
authority upon which all faith rests, is itself not as yet de fide1
? that the very Rock of our religion is tossed on the angry waves
of a proud and contumacious Gallicanism. Or is the temporal power
of the Pope to be at length put beyond all question ? Or, are the
thunders of Holy Church to be hurled at the revolution going on in
Italy, Spam, and the South American churches, ? at the
secularization of religious property, and the destruction of our
Religious Orders ? Or, is some new barrier to be erected against
the encroachments of worldliness and infidelity throughout the
Catholic world ? 1 After discussing the various conflicting " views
" on this subject, Bouvier concludes (Institut. Theolog., torn, i.)
that the question is of no practical importance, and that the most
learned theologians avoid the discussion it. B...
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