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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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...