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Article THE PAPAL ALLOCUTION AGAINST FREEMASONRY. ← Page 15 of 16 →
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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
That the Encyclical should be taken to have been " spoken " as Archbishop Manning says , " with the voice of an infallible truth , " certainly does , as he himself adds , " mark an epoch" in the world . Dr . Pusey observes"I know not why Archbishop Manning has selected tAvo
occasions only in which Pius IX . spoke with authority . For as the Syllabus quotes thirty-two documents , Allocutions , or Epistles , all as of equal and binding authority , it would follow that all are 'the very Word of God ; ' and that the Pope would be the perpetual prophet of the church , infallible , like
Isaiah or Jeremiah , or the rest of 'the goodly felloAVship of the prophets , ' in every enunciation of his , on any other matter of the church , even if contained in a letter to a single bishop . This would , indeed , mark an epoch in the history of the Church . "
These are remarkable words coming from one who is desirous of promoting Catholic Unity . But Dr . Pusey is not inclined to yield to the Pope a supremacy , or to regard all his Holiness propounds as "the very Word of GOD , " and Ave are glad to he strengthened by such an authority .
This then is the reason why the Allocution was launched at us . We have ever been regarded as the enemies of the Papacy by the Popes . Pius the IX . sets out , as we before remarked , by stating that we " are the enemies of the Church and GOD , " and Dr . Pusey has SIIOATO US that the Pope claims
noAV , what his predecessors persecuted our early brethren for resisting and dubbed them heretics , atheists , and disloyal subjects , because they never recognized , but stoutly opposed ,
Papal infallibility . Freemasonry is not a kingdom , empire or state , in itself . It comprises men from all such divisions of the great human family , and if , by means of the Allocution the Pope could weaken our ranks , by claiming the surrender of all the right
of private judgment our Eoman Catholic brethren assert by belonging to us , it would be a great stroke of policy and appear to carry Avith it a submission Avhich would pave the way for experiments of the same nature on a grander scale
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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
That the Encyclical should be taken to have been " spoken " as Archbishop Manning says , " with the voice of an infallible truth , " certainly does , as he himself adds , " mark an epoch" in the world . Dr . Pusey observes"I know not why Archbishop Manning has selected tAvo
occasions only in which Pius IX . spoke with authority . For as the Syllabus quotes thirty-two documents , Allocutions , or Epistles , all as of equal and binding authority , it would follow that all are 'the very Word of God ; ' and that the Pope would be the perpetual prophet of the church , infallible , like
Isaiah or Jeremiah , or the rest of 'the goodly felloAVship of the prophets , ' in every enunciation of his , on any other matter of the church , even if contained in a letter to a single bishop . This would , indeed , mark an epoch in the history of the Church . "
These are remarkable words coming from one who is desirous of promoting Catholic Unity . But Dr . Pusey is not inclined to yield to the Pope a supremacy , or to regard all his Holiness propounds as "the very Word of GOD , " and Ave are glad to he strengthened by such an authority .
This then is the reason why the Allocution was launched at us . We have ever been regarded as the enemies of the Papacy by the Popes . Pius the IX . sets out , as we before remarked , by stating that we " are the enemies of the Church and GOD , " and Dr . Pusey has SIIOATO US that the Pope claims
noAV , what his predecessors persecuted our early brethren for resisting and dubbed them heretics , atheists , and disloyal subjects , because they never recognized , but stoutly opposed ,
Papal infallibility . Freemasonry is not a kingdom , empire or state , in itself . It comprises men from all such divisions of the great human family , and if , by means of the Allocution the Pope could weaken our ranks , by claiming the surrender of all the right
of private judgment our Eoman Catholic brethren assert by belonging to us , it would be a great stroke of policy and appear to carry Avith it a submission Avhich would pave the way for experiments of the same nature on a grander scale