INFALLIBILITY: ITS EFFECTS ON THIS COLONY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4357, 2 August 1871, Page 3

INFALLIBILITY: ITS EFFECTS ON THIS COLONY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— l read Dr. Croko's lttter in the Cross with great regret. He announces himself as an Ultramontane, and the believer in the possession, by a human being;, of infallibility, the great attribute of the Deity. At Maketu, you will recollect, he professed his admiration of democratic institutions. This announcement we hailed with pleasure, as it came shortly after the commotion raised by the threat that Freemasons should be refused burial. Democratic institutions are as explicitly condemned as Freemasonry by the Syllabus : and both are intimately connected with the dogma of Infallibility. We hoped that Dr.C. had by some kind of logic excepted the colonies from the operation of the Syllabus. A question was then asked, are Catholic memberi of the Provincial and General Councils exempted from the anathema? Dr. C.'s letter seems to rivet the anathema upon them. Newspaperß seem now not to be beneath his notice. He writes in them to defend the Archbishop of Paris. Surely he will not now refuse to state his own intention, and so quiet the minds of Catholics, by stating whether those who take part in the Government of this colony are, or are not, exempted from the anathemas of the Syllabus. —l am, &c, Query.