ISBN: 9781154184174

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX THE VATICAN COUNCIL IT is not easy to say when Pius IX. first conceived the idea of calling together a General Council. In 1846 he is reported to have already spoken of such a thing.1 Certain it is, that on 6th December 1864--two days before the issue of the encyclical Quanta cura--after the usual discussions were ended, he confided to the members of the Congregation of Rites, in the greatest secrecy (sotto rigoroso segreto that for a long time da lungo tempo) he had been thinking of meeting the great need of the Church by resorting to the unusual measure of holding an ecumenical council.2 In the course of two months twenty-one of the cardinals who formed the Congregation of Rites sent in writing their opinions regarding this important project. Only two of the twenty-one considered it unnecessary, the one because councils presumably ought only to be convoked when the faith was in imminent danger; the other because he thought that the subjects which were to be treated at such a council were of too delicate a nature, and because the outward means required for the council were wanting. The nineteen who affirmed the necessity did not agree that it was absolute; some of them thought that a council could only be said to be relatively necessary. As to subjects which ought to be laid before the assembly, the cardinals suggested the condemnation of the errors of modern times, various disciplinary questions, the freedom of the Press, civil marriage, and so Chap, xx. PROPOSAL OF A COUNCIL 291 1 J. Friedrich: Tagebuch. Wdhrend dcs Vat. Concils geftiArt (Nordlingcn 1871), 294. 2 Collectio Laeensis VII, 1013. Manning: The true story of the Vatican Council (London 1877), 4f. Dr Nielsen regrets that he had not access to Cecconi.s Storia del Concilio ecumemco Vaticano... Fredrik Kristian Nielsen, Books, History, The History of the Papacy in the Xixth Century (Volume 2) Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781154184174

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX THE VATICAN COUNCIL IT is not easy to say when Pius IX. first conceived the idea of calling together a General Council. In 1846 he is reported to have already spoken of such a thing.1 Certain it is, that on 6th December 1864--two days before the issue of the encyclical Quanta cura--after the usual discussions were ended, he confided to the members of the Congregation of Rites, in the greatest secrecy (sotto rigoroso segreto that for a long time da lungo tempo) he had been thinking of meeting the great need of the Church by resorting to the unusual measure of holding an ecumenical council.2 In the course of two months twenty-one of the cardinals who formed the Congregation of Rites sent in writing their opinions regarding this important project. Only two of the twenty-one considered it unnecessary, the one because councils presumably ought only to be convoked when the faith was in imminent danger; the other because he thought that the subjects which were to be treated at such a council were of too delicate a nature, and because the outward means required for the council were wanting. The nineteen who affirmed the necessity did not agree that it was absolute; some of them thought that a council could only be said to be relatively necessary. As to subjects which ought to be laid before the assembly, the cardinals suggested the condemnation of the errors of modern times, various disciplinary questions, the freedom of the Press, civil marriage, and so Chap, xx. PROPOSAL OF A COUNCIL 291 1 J. Friedrich: Tagebuch. Wdhrend dcs Vat. Concils geftiArt (Nordlingcn 1871), 294. 2 Collectio Laeensis VII, 1013. Manning: The true story of the Vatican Council (London 1877), 4f. Dr Nielsen regrets that he had not access to Cecconi.s Storia del Concilio ecumemco Vaticano... Fredrik Kristian Nielsen, Books, History, The History of the Papacy in the Xixth Century (Volume 2) Books>History <