THE CATHOLIC SCHISM.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 402, 24 January 1872, Page 6

THE CATHOLIC SCHISM.

Dr Dollinger's election to the post of Rector of the University of Munich is regarded in Germany as an event of great importance. By taking this step, the ' Cologne Orazetro ' says, the University has placed itself in tb.e foremost r^nks of the great ecclesiastical conflict of our age, and has gained a position which even Berlin cannot claim. 3y electing Dr Doliioger, who is excommunicated, the professor.-! have in the most distinct manner cunaimed the protest made a year ago by forty-four professors and teachers of the University against the claims of the Vatican Council to be considered (Ecumenical, and the binding character of its decree with respect to the infallibility of tiie Pope. The clerical journals now threaten the entire University with a Papal anathema. At Vienna the " old Catholics," or opponents of the Infallibility dogma, have published a manifesto explaining the reforms which they wish to accomplish.. Among the reforms are the following : — That priests should be elected by their parishioners ; that celibacy among the clergy should be abolished every priest having the right of marrying as during the first ten centuries of Christianity ; that auricular confession should be abolished ; that church holidays and processions, which take people away from their work, should csasfc ; that the adoration of images should be discouraged ; and that all deceptions practised by means of relics should be punished by the State. All the bishops in Prussia will shortly meet at Fulda to take into consideration the present condition of Catholicism, and a national Congress of " Old C.itholics " will be held at Munich on the '22nd of next month with the same object, and to promote the anti- Infallibility movement.

The Education Qestion in France. — A majority of the Councils General have pronounced in favor of obligatory instruction. Gratuitous instruction is less supported. The Councils maintain the liberty of the head of the family to select a denominational or secular school for his children. It is stated that the objection nf M. Thiers to obligatory service is yielding. — ' Dundee Advertiser, 1 Nov. H.

The Pope. — His Holiness is now so bent (says the v Pall Mall Gazette ') on letting his advisers jursue their own ultramontane policy, that he is gloating over the triumph of the anti-papal party, and, in effect, he says to the College of Cardinals— 'Behold ! See ! there is your work— not mine i "

The funeral of the late Rev. G. Mackie, of the Soath Yarra Presbyterian Church? was one of the most remarkable occasions of its kind in Melbourne- The deceased had desired that it should be private, but the eagerness of those who desired to attend was too great, and hence there was a regular public procession. Except that the funeral jeerembny was according to Presbyterian fashion, the denomination of which the deceased gentleman had been a minister would scarcely have been known for the leading plergyj and. laity of all the other Protestant denominations flocked to do honor to the memory of the departed, and even Jews joined in the proceedings. The Oddfellows, Rechaßites, Orangemen, and F^ee Gardeners also swelled the funeral cortege.' Although th»s deceused's life was insured ifwas ■well-known that he *

had recently suffered very pecuniary >> losses, owing to misplaced confidence in one whom he thought he could trust. After thefaneral his friends held a meeting, at^ which* Sir «J ames M'CJttllbch presided, and 5 the* Bishop of Melboufctie tobk part, and thereat ctwentyseven gentlemen put down' their names fort