CARDINAL MANNING AND THE VATICAN COUNCIL,

New Zealand Tablet, Volume v, Issue 232, 12 October 1877, Page 7

CARDINAL MANNING AND THE VATICAN COUNCIL,

KnSift? V^T™ °i «"» *» the rt** la Ps« o* «*e, which stills all conflicts, noble and ignoble, history will reject as a fable and censure as an indignity the suspicion that the Council of the Vatican was convoked by Pius IX. chiefly, if not altogether, to define the infallibility of the Pope, and that they who promoted the definittai wer« impelled by any motive but fidelity and truth. . But whatsoever may be their lot they will count it one of the greatest benedictions of their hfc that they were called to help in the least ■•measure' to Tw£ cate the Dmne authority of the Head of the Church from' the^etulant controversies which had in these last centuries clouded with the d ° u t>ts of men the steadfast light of Divine faith. ,The/defiXoVtf theinfalhbihty of the Head of the Church h«fe put beyontfSrS versy that the Church speaks for ever by a Divine voice, not 3£ mittangly by general councils, but always by the voice of its head. It has met, the unbelief of the nineteenth century by the declaration that the prophesy, and the, promise of Godjto tfcel)ivine ffl the