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188 eo - "UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY. a - VOL. Kx
ERY. . e most ynrelenting 1 mainer their: Protestant -bre-)say to this, but as they are located so near the seat of
The Albany Christian Register of Novembor 28, contains thron, for no other crime than * ‘ conscientiously ab- {national government, I believe that I shall leave the
under its head the: follo lowing icles staining from worldly custo matter for Congress to adju:
n article will b found on st page signed 1 shall now come to. the marge that has elicited ave no time to say a thing concerning
“ Plain Truth.” It perhaps reauiren a word of com. {this unwilling reply. twill take: no notice -of his|the gentleman’s “ ‘invisible chureb. » Treally wish. ,
ment. We were accused by the author some time abusive and illiberal epi ets: > he nds bis ‘ just him joy with his discovery.
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gince, of publishing articles in relation ‘to the Ca-|‘ cation in the s gpa God ne i ‘ I nt ste bored ‘ ~ Pray Truta.
- opery, tha that inéulcates-the horrid]. _.
thelics, ‘hat itled, the and partially a a origt dloctri ne of retalia iation. I would not belong an in-|. As bal to which the following piece of g
appeared i in the Register, about a mouth ry Phe |Stauts to any c church that would teach a doctrine s0/ana Tibellous calumny follows :—
author of “ Plain Truth” sequires the insertion of oe Call iene aoe INFLUENCE OF 'TIIE PAPAL SYSTEM-
bis communication of an act of justice at: our. hand says h «recive fw caer deny Let us cast our eye upon.the Roman Catholic de=:
votion;.let us look to.his: standard maxim of ¢ I be--
. ther we shall admit other articles ‘from him, will de- ii int ao ae the io bao of Protestant and "ate wa llieve, because it is incredible ;’. let us Contomplate:
read on future circumstances, as well as the dispo-}.5 fom our fellow-christians of every denomination, |the homage which he offers to his prie ot
sition of our correspondents to continue a discussion| nich the most livel ratitude lows in our bo-|t the score of influence arising from cuperior or sacred
. upon the character of Popery, which “ Plain Truth” | 6 e reci wroene gr ess.” deny this also.
seems to desire. -For our own part, we should have} and I hurl the vile eid unsupported slander back on|or in aah io the neon he receives ; for all
no objections to a: temp rate discussion of the qu 5"! the head of him, ‘who, either, through ignorance or| thes anung : he be grossly and open-
tion—we ° think the times ‘demand it. : bigotry could give it atterance, can’ sufter to belly prolate, ‘profoundly ignorant, and wholly. care-
Tho conimunication referred to is the followin . fealled Papist, r, or what you. please ; but I|less of the real wants of his. flock ; yet homage,
Albany Christian Register. confess that the traialent glow of anger. mantles on ae sort, os Vielded to bis:
0 acter as SB as pos
saps Hepa it ego one ordinary We cot eheney t aaah oe ae e power.of granting or withholding absolation,
g ‘ Protes- rosching his supplicant from the torments of purga-
practices of Catholics, grossly misrepresented, week] 14, othren Gn ane essortal articles of faith, but| FY, OF sufering him to experience its prolonged:
after weelt, in your paper. It was my decided aver- | notwithstanding the great law of christian charity i is{punishments; let us advert to his belief in the power
son ie religious controversy, that hitherto prevent’ inviolably Mmeitaained. The Cath oe of the priests to forgive sins, upon being paid for it,
replying to what [ deem the mo that a wilful and obstinate adherence to error in the|#lthough it is declared that none can forgive sins
found calunies 1 had, indeed, fentertained tel essential articles of faith, involves the los s of salva-jexcept Ged alone ; let usc contemplate the catalogue
hope that time would soften the harsh tone of yer, {tion: but she also teaches, that when such error is|f faults which includes murder, theft. adultery, and.
plows contributors ; that sh are wa a's many involuntary arising from. ‘education, or any other the like,.as admitting ofpecanicry, atonement ; nay,
tho ate ert iadow of denne a i Bn cause itis of course inculpable and that thi inculpa- ar ch let ug estimate the Prospective dulgenee
ands who are openl rofessing and boldly defend- bility render ts (hose persons ipso: facto, members of | WiNC# ene, obtained tv commit sin in future,
§ '@ ope: ro velit y the true church and implicitly professors ofthe true | 5 e proportioned to the wealth of the individuals;
ing the doctrines ind that they ould have ih ranted faith. | Now, TL should be glad to know how this let us is look to the mummery of his religion, to its im-
Catholics to ' adore a 2 Gi od ac coording to the gentioman deals with Unitarians, and those who dif-| Posing ceramonial, a nd its dread-of the circulation
dictates of their own consciences. fer from thim, in what he considers to be essential]f the Bible + let us accurately weigh its favourite
“This hope has fled, and now | perceive that there} Points of doctrine? I defy him, however, to point}* cctv of trancu bstantiation, and of the real. pre-
4s apointat which forbearance coases: to be a vir-{OUt ® purer or more consisient charity, or a more vit stant hostility to the diffusion of in-
tne, 'P and at which-selfdefence becomes an impera.|@Witable way of treating an erring brother, unless| tellectual ‘oultires its claim to infallibility for all its-
tive du r truth and falsehood. are put on the same level? J |ecisions, and.its permanent substitution of a bolicf
The chan or: imaginary increase of Catholics j ;5| further stats that in all cases which implies doubt, |i? meee church, a faith i in Christ, and of:penances
eausing the most tremulous agitation for the safety Catholics are obliged to take the: charitable side, |294 pilgrimages for holiness of life ; and then Jot us
of Sion, among the regenerate of your commu | consequent thoy ar are aig to consider the errors see wh whethor all the : loveliness and ig be nat oat by
hren invinci!
and upheld ho Kingdom of peace nd chart there may not be-a communion of sacraments, there| it Namaig association with that. whieh i is irration-
at the idea of sucha state of feeling ;: but I still fond-| US ght ¢ a communion of prayers. ‘To prove the Jal. Witness again the effect of this system upon
Jy hope that the good and liberal will hesitate, and truth of this. if the writer of ** ‘Lhe Spirit of Popery,” the will and upon the intellect : man loses his free.
not suffer tlieir zeal ‘even in a good cause to dege- attended the C Catholic: church he could she coevery grasped tea eae by aban.
te into fanaticism. I regret that the to the
iollow the advice: of the good old in ‘dont of na by the Catholic. clergymen of this city, in|f or adamant ; oe has ‘h ori but that .. Ms Priest,
said, ** if this sect be fro’ m God you judgment,
it, and if from man it will fall obitselt? of oe We recommend likewise to thy unbounded mer- b prof the other inteliectual faculties ; he is fast bound
Tn your paper of the 7th inst. there appears an ar- all our brethren and fellow-citizens throughout y the thra se th of the most. enthrallin power; his.
ticle ontitled “ the spirit of Popery,” which for the the United States; that they may be blessed in the the fem we is the interest of his spiritual pastor, and
unfounded slanders it contains, and the persecuting| knowledge and -sanctified.in the observance of th he feat of his resentment, rather than the love of his.
* spirit which .it breathes has, in my opinion no parrel-| most holy law ;. that they may be preserved in union, | 2°2%e" Father ao nd the desire of obedience to his-
is very. charitable writer begins his tirade and i iu that peace which the-world cannot give, and Soman 8. ects,.similar in kind, though not in
er enjoying the bless ings of this life, be “admitted | 1e8tees to these, are produced whererer a spirit of
ing a now kind of charity which he most have found to thse which are eternal.” Roman Catliolicisin is abroad throughout the world
either in.the writings of Confucius or the more acces- are many. moré unsupported calumnies|2%4 Under every possible disguise ; that is, whe
sible pages oe the Alcoran; but which is ‘certainly, which T shal, tobe bref pass over unnoticed. Our|%"Y thing short of the pure and simple evan
no where tod found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. | distinctive name of Catholic—The mild spirit of our piety of the Bible is substituted as the gro
ay of diversified benevolence. and liberal|journals—The authority of our chief bishop—and: hope, or the. rule.of cond whenever any itra-
fealags Cn this specitnen of modern liberality) above all the beautifnl panegyric: on the ladies-of the |! jional attachment to. forms and monies is placed
it is in many instances dificult for Christians to de-| west, Ide vein indeed, set down as'‘calumnies, but as n the room of the Sworship of the “Most High God.
‘ermine to what length they should extend charity to| Causes ment, ‘although T am aware the ey. “Christian Observer
brethren who differ from them in opinion.” I-should|slipped aowillingty from his pen : apainapnionnmanael
wish te be informed in what page of the Sacred vo-|_ But there is a very indelible passage, by which i ; RETORT COURTEOUS.
lume the new manner of charity is to be found? “I T understand him pro perly,: he intimates that the Ca-| We copy the following article from.the Catholic Press of”
was always taught to believe that charity was as un- tholie P pilgrims. who ct in 1€34 on the banks ofthe 20th ult. :—
bounded as the world, and that it should not be cir-| the Potamac, to esca ersecution, not of Po- : ; 7 BATH .
_ cumseribed to either. sect or party. Tenvy not the pery, but of English "Protestants, were guilty of I SPIRIT OF EROTEST ANTISM. :
an nunds| most outrageous offence: against social order, and nthe Episcopal Watchman of the 21st inst. we:
of seot—it may indocd suit the feelings of. the man|the law of nations. I cannot conceive (and I conned we ron an article copied, asstated, from the:
who could pen “the spirit of popery;” | but it certain-| the sentence over and over): what he means by say- of ow bserver,”” headed. Spirit of Papert
ly will not suit thosé who’ consider themselves bound | ing that, ‘* with a pertinacity. known to bigotry-alone, a which the first sentence runs thus: “If o .
‘-4o observe the morality inculcated by the divine au- they followed hard upon us” and * settled in the then |4o> V28t to” understand the spirit of Popery, let
thor of christianity. ery heart of our extended territory, hard by the-seat them read the following: edict shih ras heen re~
e tells us, it is true, that a ¢ * broad and beaut of national gove ent.” I confess that this lan- cently issued by the Inquisitor -General of Romag-
band encircles all Protestant:sects-? ‘I should real-| guage appears to me quite e coated Why did? expressly appuinted by the Holy ‘Apostle See:
Jy fecl the most unmingled pleasure at such an event.| not thase varitan » pilgritns remonstrate 2. Were they | S4ard against the pravity of: heresy.’”” Tn reply,
Tshould look forward to that day, that the libetal-Junacquainted with the: full meaning of the words and as a. complete set off, we shall simply observe,
minded Grotius so much desired to see, with unex-\ Meum and Tuum 2: ~Stran 2, mighty strange that if our wish to understand the spirit of”
pressible delight, but I dm sorry that the gentleman] should be glad to know where the scat:of national! the Protestant Eton Chureh, let them: read the:
left us to depend on his own ipse dizit, without offer- | government was located in 1634 ? f Henry 8th, of Edward: 6th,. and’ .
ing asingle proof. Ifno serious differences exist ‘ut. the descendant of those . Catholic pilgrims of Elizabeth
mong Protestants, why are they not. all “ encir-Jare not -guilt y of another unparalielted Piece of au- @ shall proceed i in chronological order, begin~
eled, ”” in one communion, and preserve the “Unity|dacity. ‘They g with Henry VIIE. from 1532, the he period of his:
ofthe spirit in the bond of peace?’ Unfortunately {and colleges, and Oh! * tell it not in Gath. publish separation fiom the Catholic whe
“tee for is beautiful theory, the very paper that an-|7¢ not in “the streets of Askdon!?” . mad building ENR
’the melancholy fact, that the Protestant |nunneries on the very soil-settled. b their ancestors « Bre ery person "presented or indicted of”
isha of of aud and Genova are pessecuting in}200 years ago. I really do not Ruow what I shall {an beri or duly accused by. two lawful: witnesses,
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