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...Pope infallible? Are there times when his voice is the voice of God? Such a question could only be decided at an Ecumenical Council, and the question was decided at the last Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church, called in 1870 by Pope Pius...
Last week alert correspondents in Rome announced another Council called by another Pius for the year 1930. What cosmic questions would it answer? Only one thing was certain: questions and answers would be as different as are Pius IX and Pius...
...Pius IX was a visionary. To him came voices and often he expected divine wrath to crush the enemies he himself could not subdue. He could be suave, diplomatic, dignified. But the Kings and Emperors of Europe, like gnats, pestered him till he seemed no more the Vicar of God, but a petty, earthly prince whose lands the Kings wanted?...
...England was a man called Gladstone and one called Manning and one called Newman. And in England, at Oxford, was a movement which Pius IX had watched with great interest. For the Oxford movement eventually made both Manning and Newman Catholics and Manning became an Archbishop and both became Cardinals...
...Rome, Pio Nono, no longer liberal, heard too. True that Manning and Newman entered his fold. True that Catholicism because of the very tolerance Voltaire had preached was spreading into Protestant countries. But Pius saw greedy eyes cast at the Papal lands. He, too, must cut the figure of a ruler, intimidate the Kings and Emperors. In 1864 he issued his famed Syllabus Errorum which declared all current naturalism and rationalism error, and put the papacy in opposition to the leading principles of modern civilization. It was not enough. Pius IX called an Ecumenical Council for 1870 to provide...