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81 [Cf. _supr._ p. 348.-TR.]

82 [See an exhaustive article on the subject from a Catholic pen in the _North British Review_ for October 1869.-TR.]

83 [He refused to do so.-TR.]

84 This proved to be a mistake.

85 "Elle estime justement qu'elle a le devoir de ne pas favoriser la diffusion de l'erreur ou des attaques contre l'autorite des Vicaires de Jesus-Christ."

86 The infallibilists are of course luckier. Their writings are readily printed and circulated. At the same time with the writings mentioned above, Archbishop Spalding has published a letter to Dupanloup, emphatically denying that he had spoken against the opportuneness of the dogma in the paper he drew up with several other American Bishops, and declaring himself a zealous advocate for it.

87 [English readers may be referred to Renouf's _Case of Honorius Reconsidered_. Longmans, 1869.-TR.]

88 It is now understood to have been written by Dr. S. Mayer under his direction.

89 [See _Pastoral on Infallibility of Roman Pontiff_. Longmans, 1869.]

90 "Animadvertendum quippe est, quod in publica Sessione juxta Litteras Apostolicas _Multiplices inter_ d. d. Novembris 1869 Num. VIII., quo modus procedendi in Sessionibus publicis praescribitur, non liceat aliter suffragium dare, nisi pure et simpliciter per verba: _Placet_ aut _Non placet_, excluso alio quovis modo."

91 [Cf. _Ja.n.u.s_, pp. 382-4.-TR.]

92 [Since, that is, the Lateran synod of 1517 under Leo X.-TR.]

93 Tac. _Annal._ II.

94 Antonelli's, notoriously.

95 "Animes d'un profond respect pour l'autorite _legitime_ du S. Siege, nous sommes obliges d'autre part de preserver de toute atteinte presente ou future les rapports entre l'eglise et l'etat (as lately settled by the Concordat and the Const.i.tution). Nous joignons nos instances aux remonstrances du Gouvernement francais et nous nous croyons appeles a le faire d'autant plus, que dans le sein du concile lui-meme une grande partie des representants de l'eglise d'Allemagne, dont le devouement religieux est bien connu, atteste par son att.i.tude que nos craintes sont loin d'etre vaines."

96 "Si, diciamolo altamente, Pio IX. credette aver ricevuto speciale missione di definire la Immacolata Concezione e la infallibilita pontificia."

97 "Jure tam divino quam humano laicis nulla potestas in ecclesiasticas personas attributa est."

98 See Raynald. _Annal._ xix. ann. 1493, 22.

99 "Haec conditio pro Concilio Vaticano eo magis urgenda esse videtur, c.u.m ad ferenda suffragia tot Patres admissi sunt, de quibus non constat evidenter, utrum jure tantum ecclesiastico an etiam jure divino ipsis votum decisivum competat."

100 It appears from a pa.s.sage in Letter lii. that this severe judgment on the Prince Bishop was based on an erroneous report of his conduct in the papers.

101 "Jamvero infallibilitatem S. Ap. Sedis et Romani Pontificis ad doctrinam fidei pertinere ex allatis fidei doc.u.mentis constat, et contrariae illi sententiae a magisterio Ecclesiae non semel fuerunt improbatae. Cujuscunque ergo scientiae etiam historiae ecclesiasticae conclusiones Rom. Pontific.u.m infallibilitati adversantes, quo manifestius haec ex revelationis fontibus infertur, eo certius veluti totidem errores habendas esse consequitur."

102 "Al male dominante della licenza dei tipi, per cui il giornalismo nega e bestemmia ogni giorno, bisogna contraporre il salutare rimedio del Papa infallibile, che ogni giorno pu insegnare, condannare, definire, senza che mai sia licito ai cattolici dubitare de' suoi oraculi."

103 [The English Jesuit, Father Gallwey, says they will be like "the daily provision of manna" to the Israelites.-TR.]

104 He should have said "the Italian prelates."

105 Cf. _supr._ p. 517.

106 It will be seen from the protest afterwards published that this pa.s.sage was greatly toned down.

107 Matt. xxvi. 49.

_ 108 Von der Romischen Einheit_, Wien. 1866, vol. ii. pp. 444 _seq._

109 See the decree of Eugenius in Porter's _Systema Decretorum_, p. 535, and in Raynaldus.

110 "Ad officium nostrum spectat de _quoc.u.mque_ mortali peccato corripere quemlibet Christianum; et, si correptionem contempserit, per districtionem ecclesiasticam coercere."-_Decretal. Novit_, c.

13, De Judic. [Cf. _Ja.n.u.s_, p. 158.]

_ 111 Concil._ ed. Labbe, x. 384.

112 Innoc. _Epist._ ii. 209, p. 473, ed. Paris.

113 Raynald. _Annal._ xv. 156.

114 Raynald. _Annal._ an. 1376, 1.

115 See Bull _Roma.n.u.s Pontifex_ confirmed by Callixtus III. in 1456 and Sixtus IV. in 1481.-Morelli, _Fasti Novi Orbis_, p. 58.

116 See Bull _Inter Caeterae_ in Raynald. _Annal._

117 Raynald. _Annal._ an. 1493, 19.

118 Harduin. _Concil_ ix. 1756.

119 Baron. _Annal. Eccl._ an. 1102, sect. 18.

120 Rog. Wendover, _Hist._ iii. 251.

121 Raynald. _Annal._ an. 1283-4.

_ 122 Litera Apost. Summorum Pontif. pro offic. S. Inquis._, Venet. 1607, p. 3.

_ 123 Ib._ p. 39.

124 Del Bene, _Decreta et Const.i.tt. Pontif._ in his _De Offic. Inquis._ ii. 647.

125 [That this is no mere abstract theory, even in quite recent days, may be seen from Blanco White's account of his mother's agony of mind when she began to suspect his opinions and feared it might become her duty to denounce him to the Inquisition.-TR.]

_ 126 Decr._ v. 7, 9, and Lucius III. and Alexander IV. in Lib. vi. 5. 2.

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_ 127 Ib._ 5, 2, 5.

128 Ca.r.s.etti, _Storia del Regno di Vittorio Amadeo di Savoia_, Torino, 1856, p. 178. The Pope said it was "cosa da non potersi dir senza lagrime."

129 Guerra, _Pontif. Const.i.t._ i. 177.