THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PARTY IN GERMANY.
The Roman Catholic Bishops of Germany have, it is said, forwarded to the Berlin Government a protest, in which they declare that they cannot submit to the Church Regulation laws, and claim that the legislative power concerning the Church belongs to the Pope alone. If the prelates have used the words “ legislative power” they have made themselves simply ridiculous ; but if they have said canonical power they are perhaps right. The English penal laws against the Catholic Church were based on the monarchical dictum :—“ The Pope has no power, civil or ecclesiastical, within the realm.” Monarchs, members of Parliament, Judges and other high officers swore to it during centuries. When the oath was tendered to a great Irish agitator at the bar of the House of Commons, in 1829, he refused to take it, saying, “ I reject this oath ; one part of it I believe to be untrue and the remainder I know to be false.” The English people were awakened from a political delusion and the Catholic Emancipation Bill was passed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4235, 16 October 1874, Page 3
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178THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PARTY IN GERMANY. New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4235, 16 October 1874, Page 3
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