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. Inqut
' Man notanismo. Ibid. p. 67. 1 here’ obsurve with: due
>. Tt was therefore necessa
B60
sions of men: force it to “undergo i in they course of
e Inquisition is; in ils very nature, good,
mild and preservatives Tt is the universal, indelible
r of every. ecclesiastical stitution you
you can =
J
“sa fety, to oronder ‘t severe
able for that‘ sever
‘About. ane fiftccath century; Judaism, deeply shot
its roots into the soil of Spain Sind threatened to
_ kill tho national ‘plant.
. ‘bo riches and ‘influénco
‘intermarriage with the most distiiguished families of
the gov ernmen nt rendered. thenf? truly fortidable.—
indeed a nation contained: within anoth-
etanism prodigiously increased the
been pulled down in Spain
The great
on co
Mahom
3 Urat tree e had
en w wh ir
Spanish character’ and inde
* Judaism and , Islamisin . would
_ these rich. provincos, if superstition, despotism an
arbarity were to drive their triumphal cars over
the rights and lives of. mankind. ‘he Jews.
nearly. masters of: Spai and between the high-
blooded Castilian and‘ “tho ‘degenerate sons of Israel,
No good feeling existed: -'Their hatred wae mutaol,
and was often carried to excess. ‘I'he s cried
Cc
eit wherever the inde i
the chugeh is is not angwer-|T
of the, Jews, ‘and. their °
fl: Itia the King, who appoints
"UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
tinually holding. forth the anathema hich was at
tached even to th © suspic jon oO aism, or Ma-
hometa error to. suppose that we
i enemy by merely.check-
ells us, that we should. drive
him/at loast into his entrenghment.
If we except of lear reed
ivett-
e it were, on the
te be uninfluenced by “the mést "power detnon-
ration.
"The three errors aré the following.
Ist. That the dnguisition i isa purely ecclesiastical
tribunal. - It is fals
d. That the ecetesia stics, who sion the tribunal,
condemn certaiz culprits to death. It is false.
3d. That pe
n| of mere opinions. It
» Tue ‘TRIBUNAL ON THE Trauisisron 18 PURELY
Ro
the ‘inquisitor-gen
era in his t
nstitation charter or this tribunal was pub-
lished, in arn by Cardinal Torquermada, tn 4 gon-
cert with the king.®
The “inferior Inquisiiors could do nothing without
the approbation of the General, nor cou > With:
r
th for the, adoption’ of mba menses agai ut.the immediate concu' e the supreme
he iter. ao insurrection e out ia Year) council... This c 1 ‘was not established by the
ued.” The danger
and a dreadful slaughter
“daily inereared, and Ferdinand, “surnamed the Catho-
lic, su; ppos sed that, in order to save the country from
utter ruin; it-was indispeusably necessary to estab-
‘ish the Inquisition as best calculated, to cure the
‘political: cancer which was "rapidly corroding the};
_ heart of the nation.
/ Isabella. was | at first oppossil to the measure, ‘butt
the ‘argume and motives of her royal consort ff
nally prevailed, ‘and Pope Six tus 1V. in 1478 , des
Patched the Bulls of Institution.t—Allow me,, Sit,
hefore I- proceed farther, to present to your consi-
-deration a most important remark, viz. great politi-
cal evils, and especially violent: attacks levelled at the
| body of @ State, can never ie prevented, or repelled,
«but by -medsuros equa
ally
i
Iti ‘sa. political axioin whieh no, sensible man ever
denied
. The rule of" anciént’ Rome i is’ the great standard
by which. every imaginable danger is to be graduat-
ed, namely, ** Videant Consules, ne respublica détri-
menttim-capiat 37? Let the consuls see that the govern-
t-
“Verity of Cardinal: Torquemada and not consider ‘the
awful desolation © which it prevented; reasoning is
‘useless, ‘ores incessantly, bear in
-mind this fundamental truth, that The inquisition
pope’s bull, so that the office of Inquisitor-gencrat
having become vacant, the members of the council
proceed in their individual capacity not as ecclesias-
fthe bull of the soyer-
h ecclesiastical and royal
so that should either of the two powers dissent from |
the other, the business . is necessarily sus "pen nd-
‘The committeo were pleased to inform -us that
these two powers were equally balanced, but.you
are aware, Sir, that'no rational man could be dup
nto such a’belief.
any mischief which might result from tt must be attri
buted -to the ‘ ministry of the crown. If the proceed:
ings be not regular, ifthe proofs be not clear, the
counsellar of the king in every spiel case. can bya
singe word quas sh the suit. The
of her t pri iests, is never felt, or heard on such an
oceasion. ’ .
If the’ accused were unfortunately punished,
thougli innocent of the charge for which he suffer,
ed, the fault andthe crime must-be imputed-to the
‘jking, for having framed sue h alaw ; or to his civil
magistrates, who might have unjustly passed the
sentence, and this you vil ‘shortly see has been the
"twas, in its commencement,’ required. and estublished case.
“by the King g of Spain in ‘pertlous and extraordinary _ “Remember; Sir, that among the numerous decla- 8
circumstances. he eoinmilee of thé rtes €X-| mations, which in- the last century have | been pi
“pressly declare it, and th circumstances “having lishad. against the Tnqnisition, you cannot ind a
{
changed, the Inquisition. became useless
fact. 5 ‘because
two proscribed classes of people having at
‘a host’ of connections in the State should necessarily
“either feell, or-inspire terror.‘
| Pression: upon. the. ininds ‘of these- people, by con
la riguesae poder que gozaban, y por sus enlaces con| ‘
® Por
familias mas wlustres y distinguidas de la. monar
dadamente- un Puello ineluide, in.olro » pubis he bid.
39.
dus
t Ibid. p. 27."
“This (rightfub commission “inimediately vosted them
‘with boundless 3 pow.
Hallandose in circumstancias tan-difficiles y extraordi-
narias, Report, p37,
v tas‘causas, en Ios tiempos presen-
Consequently these causes’ did exist former-
| the annib
this usual - hat: tred to christianity, falsified and carica-
. tured it ite-pict
y to make a salutary im-]-
ngle word “concerning this distinctive ‘character of
the tribinal, which in justice and in truth ought to
r b .
ave been m
e infidel Voltaire whose favorite object was
bilation of the altar and-the throne has, in
- _ sanglant tribunal =~
Ce monument affreux du Po uy ‘our monacal °
qu'elle moine-abhotre 3
ui tout couvert do sang, d
Egorge les mortole avec un 1 fer sacre.—
A hideous'sot—a bench thet reoks with ;Boto~~
This dire memento of a
with horror Spain.ace vhal t Caurdofous plant, -
th fire and sword theit altars they defend.
Defeat no, they disgrace; they. mar their end,
The tribunal, however,
found a nation remarkable-for, its wisdom,
elevated: character it is (ve, repeat it).a purely
eT De amerdo con-el Rey: Ibid. p. 82.
+ Ibid. p. 34, 35." :
i Elinquisitor; en virtud de las bulas do 8. S.yel
do las que le competen por
l rey en
hacen suapechosas, habiendo sida atid svincipalmenta
uicision contra .la heregia Hamada del Judaismo-y dol |
P.
doference: to the committos, that the expressions | “the horo-
sy which is “called Judaism,” is Fidiculousty false,
jasticos y reales: qualquer poder de'los dos qu
Id autoridad quo arregla y be" arregiado Tos tribunales do ta
inquisicion ; tri mismo tiom
interrompe necegsariamente el curso ~ “do su expodicion—
{lbid. ‘Pe + 36.)
numb er
you will uniformly find, we, speaking of the}.
talc
{who would-t
th
rsous are’ condemn ed for the ‘expression
is fa
al and he, urn, nominates the private In-
jauisitors v with the royal coosent. se
| The
The Auguisition + ts @ purely royal
instrument. itis entirely in the hands of the king. and
e of religion, Le
thus described is s to be
and | whi
eal, constituyen
0 son ecclesi-
no concurra|
oe VOL. IX,
|royal institution, in which all that is wise pad distin-
guished jn-the_ ecclesiastical budy m e seen.—
They take. cogmzance real orimen by virtu of
pre-existing. and public laws; they e ten nee
upon ther witha tlegree of wisdom which j is perhaps
‘Junique,’ bat they never pronounce death upon the cul-
rit.
pr What name,: then,” in the whole vocabulary of in-
famy is best adapted 0 that shameless profligate,
pourtray such a-body of mer
an © demoralizing author of Joan of Arc had reason
etest an authority, which he well knew would
ations ‘are easily
view the Inquisition asa sclub of stu
cious monks, who for. amusement put men
upon the rack, or broil thei upon gridirons! Error
will, iccasionally insinuate ; itself-into the minds of
ong, andl i into: works which are gener-
de dicated the defence of sound principles ;
hence ina per rivdical, we have, not long since, read
the following strange passage.
‘‘ Tvis true, whatever may be said to the contrary
that- the Tnquisitors have until 1783 een ina
abit rather severe, of solemoly burning persuns,
who did not believe ina God ; this was than tic, but
if we except this, they were "men made up of excel-
fent materials.”
» The anthor of such an unfounded assertion has
certainly never reflected upon, what he thus wrote.—
What tribunal is there in the universes whieh ¢ one
time, or other, had not condemned p
hat crime ies the civil tribunal commit whieh
consigns ulprit to the scaffold by ofa
st ate. jaw, wil enacts such a penalty for an offence
of which the accused is found guilty 2. Where is the
Spanish law in "whieh itis asserted that deism is
punishable with death.? It would be difficult to
cuntrive a greater absurdity, and it would seem
equally impracticable t to make even unguarded cred-
ulity swallow such no
idst the innamertble errors: whieh the eigh-
3 prot nted in the hu-
ate catia, that priests could condemn a bumar
being te dea s excusable for his
ut at
pean, plead for his uereq aintance with. catholic or
universal christianily? What eye has not bebeld its
immense lustre, which. for upwards: of eighteen hun-
dred ‘years, has, like the sun in firmament, illu-
minated the world 2? What ear has,- during that pe-
tiod, been deaf to the continue chime ? A san-
GUINE AS E
ADHORRET URCH
ors BLoopsHeD ? Who does not know that ¢ ca.
.| tholic priests are prohibited from practising surger
lest’ theie ‘annointed hands should draw human
blood, even for the purpose of effecting a cure ?
orning Chronicle observes—
'S
to. dra e
die ence to the chure h of England,
than. -have fallen
by the Ingu isition; since its origin to the present
day !!!"—WNational Gazette, Philadelphia, March
5, 18 1880.
ven so, whoevor would undertake to defame them,.
gught first to be acquainted with tl an, What is the con-
he church of
t of interested.
Christ i in this-respect ?.
MOST AMUSING.
Tho Jesuit‘of: the: 13th of March, contains | an article in
ure of G, in
mente Wl our readers belicve that the absurd piece upon
icly the comment is written, js copicd as an article of in-
fellzen into several of our religious papers?—Yet the fact
80.— ave seen it in two or three at-least that fell into
our hands,
a momentous discovery has been made b; y G.
ft is: indeed worthy the altention of the people of
nd go important that the discoverer should
spe —to tell the truth, the whole
trath, and nothing ‘hut the truth. . He hus discover-
ed,t thavt the- Pope has determined: to establish the: In+