ROMAN CATHOLIC Cliri:< I!. 





. Rome, 11 1179, L315; 



; of I.V..M-, !i!i:>, 1-J7! : Yiemic, in 

 Dauphin.. l::l I : ron-taiic,-, I Ml: l!a-l.-, 1481; 

 Hie council- i.r I'i-i, in 



. and tin' oth of I.al'Tan, in 

 I.M-J. r.lecl by some as a>cumcnic:d. 



lien tin- dogma of tlio 



Iiiiin. xvption was proclaim .!, was 



:mciiic:il Council.) Tin.- intention of 

 Pope I'iiH. to add to this list of general councils 

 of the Church another, was aiinoiinccd in th>' 

 allocution of , I une 'JTtli, in the following terms : 



rable lnvtliivM, nothing is more den! 

 i from your union with tlio Apostolic See 

 Tit which wo esteem most salutary to the whole 

 e already entertained, tor a Ion;: time, 

 >h is known to scvi nil i<f 

 brethren, and we trust that our thought may 

 i/.ed as soon as the desired occasion shall pre- 

 Our project is to hold a sacred oecumeni- 

 'iieil of all the bishops of the Catho- 

 i which, by collcetiii',' various opinions, 

 common accord, and with the aid of God, 

 iry and salutary remedies, particu- 

 larly in that which concerns the many evils which 

 :.urch. By means of such a council 

 .< a certain hope that the light of the Catholic 

 truth, dissipating the darkness of error in which the 

 involved, will shed abroad its bene- 

 liirht, and enable mankind to discern and fol- 

 low, by favor of the divine grace, the true path of 

 i justice. The Church also will then 

 di'rivc . and, like an invincible army, will 



efforts of her enemies, subdue their 

 . and, fully triumphing over them, propagate 

 and uphold throughout the world the reign of Christ 



th. 



But now, in order that your prayers and your and 

 \ bear abundant fruit of justice to Chris- 

 tianity, let u> lift up our eyes to God, the fountain of 

 and justicej to Him who holds for them 

 . !L fulness of defence, and all abundance 

 of grace. 



The bishops, in their reply, expressed joy at 

 'itioiincomcnt of the speedy assembly of 

 an oecumenical council, from which they expect 

 abundant fruit. No ifficial account of the pro- 

 ceediiiirs of the Episcopal meeting has yet been 

 published, but the folio wing extract from a letter 

 of the llishop of Soutlnvark, London, Eng., to 

 the London Times, which was written for cor- 

 rect in _' ma:iv false minors and reports, gives an 

 authentic account of the deliberations of the 

 ihe drawing tip of an address to the 

 Pope : 



When an address was projected, the bishops of each 

 : deputed one or more of their number to rep- 

 resent them in the commission, to which body the 

 duty of jirt'parin^ the address was to be intrusted. 

 The English bishops, eight in number, unanimously 

 selected their archbishop as their leading repi 



iiinicatin',' verbally, and not in writin>_r, 

 to him and to myself (as his "colleague) their views 

 he subjects that would probably be mentioned 

 They had occasion to state their 

 opinions on other important matters through the arch- 

 , and throughout the most perfect harmony 

 of opinion . , ceu him and his e->l|. 



ilie dillerent nations i 

 I Mm-, ('ard'mal dfl as senior by 



Of lifteen poll 



- the basis of tlio address. Thi- 

 draft had been prepared by a Roman prelate of h'urh 

 utanding, under Ins auspices, and was in Italian. 



Some of tin: bi hops wished to hoar it read in Latin. 



tin, fir-t l.v 



. afterward by tho ArchbUhop 

 once ununii 



tal rit ^s hliould < 



an c\piv--ioM of the L'ratitudc of tl.< ;.,r the 



unvarying kindness with which 1'ius IX. hail treated 

 . Followin 



that si\ i' 1 



. rdmal de . hoold frame 



n tin- follow iir.' Wednesday, 



tli of June, to the general commission. The 

 Archbishop of Colocza, 



and the Arehbish -;:ke the fif- 



teen heads approved by the general commission, and 

 v up an address founded upon them. After 

 two day.- their draft was printed, and, with a few 

 verbal alterations, was the same which was signed 

 and presented to his lloline- in the heads 



nor in - was a word container either of the 



Czar of Kus-ia or of Victor Emmanuel, and the pas- 

 sage relating to the loyalty of the Romans stands in 

 substance now as it stood then. The address was 

 unanimously accepted by the whole commission. N-> 

 division or Voting on any portion of it was so much 

 as proposed. The address was at once signed by 

 all the bishops in Rome that is, by more than one- 

 lialf of the whole number of bishops in the Catholic 

 world. 



The committee referred to in the above letter 

 consisted altogether of thirty-two members, dis- 

 tributed as follows: France, 4; Austria, 3; 

 Spain, :); Italy. ,3; England, 2; Ireland, 2; Bel- 

 gium, 1; Holland, 1; Prussia, 2; Bavaria, 1; 

 Switzerland, 1 ; Portugal, 1 ; North America, 3 ; 

 Brazil, 1 ; Mexico, 1 ; the East, 3. The French 

 bishops nominated Bishop Dupanloup, of Or- 

 leans, Archbishop Kegnier, of Cambrai, Cardi- 

 nal de Bonnechoso, Archbishop of Rouen, and 

 Cardinal Mathieu, Archbishop of Besancon. 

 The Spanish bishops nominated the three eldest 

 of the bishops present. The three members of 

 the committee selected by the Eastern bishops 

 were Patriarch Valerga, of Jerusalem ; 11 

 archbishop primate of the Armenians, and Lan- 

 guillot, a vicar apostolic of China. 



The Pope subsequently appointed a con- 

 gregation of seven cardinals, to whom he in- 

 <1 the duty of arranging the preliminaries 

 for the meeting of the council which he had 

 expressed his intention of calling. In the 

 course of the year a number of prominent theo- 

 logians from different countries were called to 

 Koine, to take part in the labors of this special 

 congregation.* On the evening of the 7th of 

 , ii>er the Pope signed the bull convening 

 the universal episcopate for an ujcum 

 council to assemble at Rome, on December 8, 

 1868. This bull, which bears the date of De- 

 cember 8th, exactly one year before the ap- 

 pointed day of meeting, was to be disseminated 

 without delay. 



In the United States the Pope, in answer to 

 the petition of the Second Plenary Council of 

 I Baltimore, has erected nine new episcopal sees, 

 and four new apostolic vicariates, ns follows: 



9 Bitltop //<-. Columbus, Ohio; Roches- 

 ter. X. Y. ; Wilmington, Del.: Soranton. Pa.; 

 HaiTisbiirir, Pa. ; (iiveii Hay, WK: I.a Crosse, 

 AVis. ; St. Joseph, Mo.; and Grass Valley, Cal. 



