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world." After the Vatican Council he, like the old Catholics in Germany, 
refused to receive the decrees of the Vatican Council as dogmas of Catholic faith, 
and proceeded gradually to reach the theological position which he has since 
held. 
Few Americans, outside of the American Church, understand the theological 
position of the GaUican Church, which Pere Hyacinthe represents. It has been 
and is, greatly misunderstood, and, because of misunderstanding, as greatly mis- 
represented. It is my intention here, then, without considering any proofs as to 
what councils of the Church have, or have not, been Ecumenical, or as to what 
are, and what are not, the recognized authorities of the Universal Church, and 
without claiming correctness or incorrectness for the definitions below given on 
which the nomenclature which I am obliged to use for the sake of clearness is 
based, to merely state and explain as briefly as possible the theological position 
of Pere Hyacinthe. 
He says in one of his published Munich discourses: "Three great princi- 
ples, or, if you prefer the expression, three great methods, in our time, are dis- 
puting among themselves the empire of the soul — Rationalism, Protestantism, 
Catholicism. Rationalism suppresses Revelation. ***** 
Protestantism maintains Revelation, but mutilates it; and in effect, wkile extoll- 
ing the Bible, separates it from the living tradition which is its complement and 
explanation, and substitutes the individual faith of the Christian for the collective 
faith of the Church, Catholicism alone abides faithful to the whole revelation, 
written and spoken — spoken before it was written, and so written, I repeat, that 
it ever stands in need of being completed and illustrated by speech ; only this 
speech is not that of an individual conscience, of an isolated person, but the 
universal and constant teaching of the Church — in those masterly words of Vin- 
cent of Lerins, ' what has been believed by all, always, everywhere.' Quod 
semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus. Doubtless the faith of the intelligent Cath- 
olic is profoundly personal, but it has for its basis and its guide the collective 
faith of the church." In this sense Pere Hyacinthe is like all Catholics through- 
out the world, who do not add Papism or Infallibilism to their Catholicism, 
neither Protestant nor Romanist, but a Catholic. Essentially the faith of the 
GaUican Church is the same as that of all Catholics throughout the world who 
regard as Ecumenical Councils only those w^ich were held in the east during the 
first eight centuries and before the separation between the eastern and western 
halves of the church, and who go back for the symbol of their faith to primitive 
Christianity and confirm their faith by the text of unversality, permanence, and 
consent, and the decrees of Ecumenical Councils. St. Vincent of Lerins, in the 
year 434, write his " Commonitory " against heretics, of which a Romanist writer 
declares that " no controversial book ever expressed so much and such deep 
sense in so few words." (Gahan's History of the Church, p. 192.) In this 
book he lays down this fundamental principle, that only such doctrine is truly 
Catholic as has been believed "in all places, at all times, and by all the faithful. " 
Such is the Catholicism of the Greek, English, and Anglo-American Churches, 
