Opposition to Papal Infallibility
The most trustworthy accounts from Rome agree that the Pope and the majority of the Council pay no attention whatever to the very earnest protest of all the Catholic governments, and of a large minority of bishops, against the proposed doctrine of infallibility. It is expected that the new doctrine will be formally promulgated on the 29th of the present month. Both the attitude of the secular governments and that of the clerical opposers of the doctrine among the bishops and priests of the Church would seem to indicate that there will not be a general acquiescence in the decree of the Council. Four of the German bishops, including the two cardinal-archbishops of Vienna and Prague, have recently published pamphlets against the doctrine, all of which have been confiscated in Rome. In Munich, an association of prominent scholars has been formed for publishing a series of books and pamphlets against the “threatened corruption of the Church.” It is thought that we are on the eve of stirring events.—Methodist.