Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Present Prospects of He-union.
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power and the policy of the Roman Curia will
remain, and that must be Ultramontane, and
farewell to corporate Re-union !
Such being the case the best chance for
success lies in the destruction of the temporal
will fall back on his
power; then the Pope
spiritual status as Bishop of Rome. National
Churches, whilst conceding a primacy, will be
very jealous, like that giant of old, Hincmar of
due prominence
Rheims, of their independence ;
will be given to Diocesan and Provincial Synods ;
and an CEcumenical Council will be the voice,
not of a single pope, but like that of Constance,
of the Church itself. Hence, it appears to me,
is the great value of that wonderful Eirenicon.
Not only that it places before xis at home our
duty in the clearest terms, and in general
ventilates the question, but that it will act as a
spur to stimulate the dormant energies of
Gallicanism. A Re-union on the principles of
Bossuet and Gallicanism has even been accepted
by a leading Roman organ, the Weekly Register^
as better than perpetual schism. But to carry
that point, Gallicanism must be aroused on the
Continent. It becomes a deeply interesting
question what the great Emperor of the French
may be revolving in his mind ! whether to
throw" the weight of his influence into the Gal-
lican scale, to acquiesce
in the fact of Ultramontanism,
or to be like even greater men before