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UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY
truth duly propounded, is criminal he will not perhaps b
all .
VOL. 1X,
subject. t porfectly
his will to, a superior of-a reli
CHARLESTON, MARCH 13, 1830. °
. Letters received fr
Rev. J. Me cE lroy, Frederic k, Md.. —Rev. J. P. Kenrick,
Bardstown, Ky.—Thomas Victory Greonsbero’ Galo hn
Harriett P, M. Emmitsburg, Md
NATION. .
‘he hishop on last Sunday, celebrated tho High Mass at
inute historical, doctrinal and
moral explanation of the sacrament of Holy. Orders, of
the initiatory rite of the tonsure, and of the minor orders : he
gave the Tonsure to Mr. John Fielding, conferred the minor
order of Porter, on Mi. Timoth rmingham, and that of
Reader, on Mr. Peter Whelan, candidates for Holy orders }°
in this Diocese. . .
Baxrim —On Monday, Fobruary 224, the Archbishop
eficiated i in poatifcale atthe chapel of the seminary, and
converres the tonsure, four minor orders and ieee
on Mr, A. Srinurncer, of the diocess of Philadelphi
~ ORDI.
equally, , 4
“ Without faith, it ia impossible to please God.” Heb. xi. 6.
And faith implios an assent of the human undorstanding to
allthat God has reveslod, To say that man can attain sal-
vation, whilst tough pride or other passion he rojects any
octrine, whose divine revelation is sufficiently evinced to
pine would be to sport | with the veracity and majesty or the
Deity; as it
the obstinate and impenitent delinquent, who ‘amples un un-
der foot even one of the other’ divine commandments, cou!
in this state attain beatitude. Ae therefore the catholic is
convinced that the church ii is “ the pillar and ground of
truth?1
seis proposed by her, declaring his belief that without this
holic faith no one can “obtain salvation s but he doee not)
thereby consign
ould ly recommend ii
1. Tim, iii, 16, he a f the ar-| wh
buta
cording toe writton vale, wedi ing religions and coneili
ato;
spirit. It isthe light of heaven which leads him thus ny
crifice to the cause of virtuo his particular inelinations und
tion of some ® great and Pious end, The
tion. the virtue of Obedience, shew the
wdvantages which aie derives frora it, and con sequent-
it to the enlightencd- friends of piety. The
same virtue practised by, the clorgy in regard to their e
is ovidently, attended ovine the most signal fruits, since thos
ig aul thority, veould
labour with but partial successin different places, are by it
united i in one body to perpetuate the effects of each indivi.
be ignorant of some partioulae tenet; no more ‘than! he}
‘t has been thought or insinuated that
America i is not a soi adapted to the growth of this Virtue,
nie
mn
and on Sunday, the 28th, he was ordained Pricst, " the
Archbis shop. —_— .
KEN .
Lay Bratharey St. Bonedice
@ young men took perpetual vows in this Institution,
and received a peculiar habit of the Monastic form, from
Right Hev. B. J.-Flaget, in the church of St. Thomas, on
the © Sunday following the Epiphan,
MAN CATHOLIC CREED.
Undor ‘thick head an.article appears inthe Western Lumina-
ry, which is declared to be the creed of Pius IV. It however,
appears ina mutilated state. Tho croed of the pestle as
plained in th ncil i nd C
forms a most important part of the profession of. faith pre.
scribed by thal pontiff, iv totally omitted ; and the article
s
it reason to complain of such’ unfair}.
l
and
the pri
io
that the obstinate rejection of divine truth eu ficiently pro-
3
mulgated is a crime, and consequently incompatible wit!
salvation ; though he will not find us hasty in asserting that |
a individuals, not actually in external communion’ with
he church, are guilty before God, of this pertinstieus disbe-
leh ‘To Him, who alone knows the ere es hesto owe ed o
would pronounce the damnation of the man, who, throug P inspiring men with a nth
inculpable inadvertence might perform an acti forbidd quality and ind
byt the divine Jaw. The “No! Catholic” then dulg roud freeman who wou! ia
part with lifo rather than yield his birth-right to an: invading
foe, still recognizes that he has a Lord'in Heaven worthy of
the most profound homago, and unreserved dovotign. The
ed wbich he possesses he must omploy to glorify its éo.
whence with tho generous feelings of a noble and af.
stint neart, he will consecrate his overy power to pro-
on
e the glory of the creator, and the well-being of his fel.
them, the opportunities afforded them.
given by them, we refer their judgments, a the = mean time,
we hoartily join Mr. Butler, in wishing that wal for-
bearance and..mutnal good . humor should. distgsih all) |
w-men, The Prelates of the church have little to appre-
hen from republican feeling, whilst they stedfastly pursue
the he great end of their station: whilet Jnevleating principles
th hi
who claim the christian name.
THE FOLLIES OF ‘POPERY. MULTIPLYING.
The MKestern. Luminary regales it’s readers with an arti-
clo under-this title, extracted from the Watchman.
* We have just r a Rochester Observer, which states
“ that Bishop Dubois, of the catholic commu nion, preached
* in the village of Buffalo,
formed th
ealthy He athon from | “India, should come e 8,000 m
rs give y with
a word’s alteration ; of let them avow that they pive mere
extracts, A writer ina posterior number, styling himself
“No Roman Catholic,” ‘begins his communication in these |,
no more co
* cerned ites sacurred) in by every one wis profesics it, than
o ‘the 39 articles: are ny @ -mombers,of the church of Eng-
“land 3 t long since, exprossed i in full parliainent
‘simplicity o
The object of this writer seems to be |
away the doctrine of exclusi
the woand of the great schism.” OF the friendly dispositions
of the No Roman rrnid we have evidence in this ex-
tract ;. but cannot a m expressing our ‘astonish-
ment that he. should have, asserted his knowledge that our
creed “ igno more conéerned in by every ono who professes
“it, thin the thirty-nine articles are by the members-of the
“ chureh of England”. Were he tomake such an.assertion
before any collection of catholics, whether possessing the
wisdom of legislators, or moving undistinguished and un-
gifted in humbler spheres, * ‘we are confident that even “a
horse-laugh,” or at least a smile of surprise would be exci:
by.the church, since the moment he publicly
disavows-even one defined article, he ceases to be a momber.
We have but“ one Lord, one Faith, ono Baptism.” . With
this fact“ even a “no Roman catholic’: should have been
fact a8 pu and as evident’ as the very existence of the
church. Letany one cntor our churches in any part of the
union he will hear the same. coetrines re -echoed from Bos
ton to New Orleans,; Tho emigrant and the'native pastor,
however: they may diffor in accent, promulgate the same
h| with tho rites of ¢hristian antiquity,and the Mothor of. Abo-
‘| minations with the spotiess spouse of the R
ies prelates they have not to frame 4 new
b
a
eo} @ christi-
an universe, they w ell fin many resolute co-operators
among t the inforior clergy $ and should i in any instance pride
or
that ‘the jst exercise of their constitutional si will
ultimately prove successful, We ore the contest betw
pride and power, v
to anticipate the roaults : but when the spirit of dontration
oes not animate tho ruler, when self-wwill does not usurp the
| place oflaw, wo cannot dread the issuo, Fortunately for our
m of governinent,
ere
“poald rise. tho edifice of religion,
signated the spot whereon
is to ‘thege christian aditors ¢ one e of the follies of the Moruen t
can
ri
of Acominatross. ‘
by our pious 2 sineestors de- :
t only to put in execution. as far as practicable, regula-
d by th
* more 8; rendid edifice fot the crorehip ‘Pp f ages. He is the be st
Pp &
“ Much is 0 dono untry, ‘gon m the follica champion of well lated li ups *
“ * which the ae, wealth ott the ‘nother of abominations may holds the.ferce and ' vigour of the law, and he best se cures
long us.
The las ins of the Watchin and the Juuminary, are ex- oi ro se ve a sa
thei. vigila and light . tho von: ne Dray. er. agains! 18. eae er, Nal ways:
and univ eral church, should be an ° poh
per! arfgemsedh & sitentieg onal greater number be erected | *" ite : ”
for r the eclbraton of the christian amyster i The simple REGAL AUTHORITY.
Though politics are foreign to tho object of this pablien:
tion, yet catholics are so frequently decried as tne secs ‘
i
despotis:
polity which"distinguished m
vocated. The government of the church diself i isi
that accompany
the croas should be planted as tho emblem of, ‘the
and triumphs . ‘of E Him, whose faith is to be ‘preached.a
whose sacraments are to be received in'the holy temple 2—
ary features, being + panaarily auch as it’s divine. founder
nd} catablished 2, but itzis compatible with every legitimate form -~
of -civil eaten and calculated: to “promote im every
id. -
Shame on thet men, who speak of Juggernaut, and his wor-
ship, when the pious prelates burning with zeal for, the plo-|°
try of Jesus Christy “proceeds to. lay - -the foundation ofta
church wherein the ‘Saviour-God, i is to be, worshipped.—
Much is to be done, to gave tho country from continuing: the |}
stato of f mankind.
ur dominion spread ¢ over the universe and living undera -
great varicty of forms of civil. rule, accord,indced admirably
in tho principles of faith, but differ wi idely i in their political ..
gentifieats; habits, education, and an infinite varity. of lor
dupe of men,.whoie { erity confounds the car.of Jugger-
naut with the temple of, Christ, the follies of superstition
Redeemer !1 1
Yea, ofa truth, they who. utter these blasphemies, bo your
men of pare vi vital religion ‘perhaps thoy. think so!
BL IND OBEDIENCE,
ments and opinions, Hence we are ° not “unwilling to avow
that in some countries the child or ministet of religion fects’,
a a predilection for the away of the monarch, whore parental
d,.or.b
but we must be also permitted to state that mitlions dar'be
also aumbered ardently attached to.our faith, who without
-In'a commun’ nication from a cardinal, of the eongrogation
of Propaganda regarding the rules of a certain religious in-
stitute, we were pleased to observe strictures somewhat so
vore on tho usa of the opithet blind, which had incautiously
heen ado opted. His eminence obse rves'that the term should
doctrines.. Let him pass to. Canada or South Ametica, or
if he will pursue his i inquiries traverse all Europe, and the
voice of catholicity will
to his ears. Ifho interrogate t ‘the famble but well instruct-
icle
| prompl, or veel viding. that. the. phrase band obedience
owed its origin to Pseudo-Mystics, and was unknown to tho
Fathers of the church. This remark does honour to
the wisdom of the high dignitary from whom it comes, and
ot bt
ed layman he will find that on every a
bo given conformable to the articles ofthe creed in question.
The clause implying the doctrine of oxclusivo salvation, |
seeme tnat wherein the “no. Roman Catholic” discovers a|
want of uniformity : but when heis ae that it is con-|
missioned to express,
sustained no small detriment from tl
prodent ‘adoption: of terms, by those vwho inculeato hor max.- |
T
0 well-meant
fined to the belief that tho
“We are conscious that religion hae
cis
ut ii
in freedom‘ 's Sacred cause, and ‘decidedly prefor the republi-
{can form of government, * The friends of monarctiy. howe-.
ever highly they might have extolicd its advantages, ‘and
however strongly they might have‘inculcated the duties of
obedience, have not: becn wanting to point out to sovercigns
the ends for which they. reign, and the limits within: which |”
be We have some time since
from Gravina, where-
in a he establishes the most just and liberal. principles in re-
gard. to"the nature of laws and-empire. We no’ w offer to
their consideration his reflections on royalty, which, \ exer-
ed 1a differ bat j tr 0 pre~
| sidential office. nt
commence, {says ho} tom the government of one,
ims. | he- rtue of christian Obodie’
'y victim of divine} "
Letus
“ which is certainly an excellent kind of ‘Ropublic, WHEN JT.
thei image ‘of. the deity’ 's- presiding and _ protecting power :.° ,