An Appeal to the Reason and Good Feeling of the English People
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Excerpt from An Appeal to the Reason and Good Feeling of the English People: On the Subject of the Catholic Hierarchy It was argued, therefore, that virtually this - the only great Constitution existing for Catholic England, part even of which had been already formerly repealed by the late Pope - was rather a clog and embarrassment, than a guide. The Catholic Church in England had so much expanded and consolidated itself, since the Emancipation Act, and its parts had so matured their mutual relations, that it could not be carried on without a full and explicit code. The Bishops, it was urged, found themselves perplexed, and their situation full of difficulty; as they earnestly desired to be guarded from arbitrary decisions, by fixed rules, and yet had none provided for them. The uncertainty, also, of position on the part of the clergy, which resulted from this anomalous state, made it still more painful. Such was the case submitted to the judgment of the Holy See, fully illustrated with practical applications. A remedy was therefore prayed for, and it was suggested that it could only be in one of the two following forms: - Either the Holy See must issue another and full Constitution, which would supply all wants; but which would be necessarily complicated and voluminous, and, as a special provision, would necessarily be temporary: Or, the real and complete code of the Church must be at once extended to the Catholic Church in England, so far as compatible with its social position : and this provision would be final. But, in order to adopt this second and more natural expedient, one condition was necessary, and that was - The Catholics must have a Hierarchy. The Canon Law is inapplicable under Vicars-Apostolic; and, besides, many points would have to be synodically adjusted, and without a Metropolitan and Suffragans, a Provincial Synod was out of the question. Such was the main and solid ground on which the Hierarchy was humbly solicited by Catholics from the Holy See. It was one that referred to their own internal organization exclusively. Thoughts of aggression never entered the heads of the petitioners or of the petitioned; nor were the Bishops moved by stupid ideas of rivalry with the Established Church, in what forms its weakness, nor any absurd defiance of national prejudices. They knew that they violated no law in asking for what was needful for their religious existence, and they acted on an acknowledged right of liberty of conscience. Other motives were added, to show the expediency of granting this boon to the English Catholics; as, for example, that it had been granted to Australia, and was about to be granted to other colonies, without complaint from any one; and it looked like a reproach to the mother-country to withhold from it what had been granted to its daughters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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