30 "That Rome has substituted for the Proud Boast of 'Semper eadem' a Policy of Violence and Change in "That she has equally repudiated Modern Thought and "That Rome requires a Convert, who now joins her, to forfeit his moral and mental Freedom, and to place his Loyalty and Civil Duty at the mercy of another." V. BEING TRUE, ARE THE PROPOSITIONS MATERIAL? O VATICANISM. I. INTRODUCTION The Replies which have appeared on this occasion. The 85 wished. Dr. Newman. His remarkable Admissions. Evi- III. THE VATICAN COUNCIL AND THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE POPE Breach with History, No. 1. From the Opinions and Declara- tions of the Roman Catholics of the United Kingdom for PREFACE. IF there has ever been, and if there still be, a question reaching far into the future, it is the question of Church Power, and of its monstrous exaggeration into Papal Power, such as it has now for the first time been accepted by the Latin Church in its corporate capacity; amidst the cold indifference or half-suppressed, ineffectual, murmurs of a multitude of its members, the brave and wise resistance of a portion as yet far smaller, and the apathy, amazement, or indignation of the world. The vast moment and practical character of the subject form my excuse for republishing together the two Tracts respectively entitled 'A Political Expostulation' and 'Vaticanism,' and for adding to them, with the proper sanction, an article from the 'Quarterly Review' of January on the Speeches of Pope. Pius IX. It has not been agreeable to deal so pointedly, as in this article, with any personal performances of the very aged and so widely venerated Pontiff. But those performances have been such as to open a new, strange and startling chapter of the general subject, and they require accordingly the searching notice of the world. The interest attaching to the discussion has led to reprinting the Tracts in America and Australia, and to their translation into various languages. I regret, however, to find that, even at a moment when Ultramontanism bitterly complains of suffering restraint in certain countries, it has been thought worth while, where some, I hope untruly, suppose that system possesses an influence over the existing civil authority, to restrain the circulation of these not very formidable works. The gentleman who translated "The Vatican Decrees' into French, apprises me that, on the part of the Government of France, the Duc de Decazes has refused to allow the free sale of the Translation at the railway bookstalls, on the public highways, and in the kiosks. I hope that no similar restraint will be placed on the circulation of the recent translation into French of Monsignor Nardi's Italian answer to my work. Upon surveying the immediate field of contest, I am thankful to record that many noble protests against a portentous mischief have been called forth. There has also been exhibited, in bad logic but in good faith, much halting at points situate between certain premisses and the undeniably just conclusion |