Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Spirit in which Re-union should be sought. 219
Catholic Church there are certain dogmata re
quired of each individual to be held de fide
which were unknown to the Church Universal
before the schism of East and West, and which
are likewise unknown to either of the other two
communions. For example, this is the case with
the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of
the Mother of GOD, as also with the questions
of the Temporal Power of the Holy See, and
of the Personal infallibility of the Pope when
speaking in his official capacity
as head of the
Roman Church. On this last
point certain
writers of the Ultramontane school seem dis
posed to press the modern theory
to its most
exti eme limits : while those of the moderate
or Gallican schools, represented, for example,
by Professor Dollinger, of Munich, and the
Archbishop of Paris, are denounced because
they hesitate to follow, unquestioned, the domi
nant section in the Roman communion. And
the sympathy more or less of members of the
Church of England reasonably enough is given
to such men as the late Von Hirscher, Dean of
Freiburg, to Bishop Kettler, of Mayence, and
to Canon Bertrand, of Versailles, because they
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have been enabled to look beyond the narrow
tyranny of a local Church and the temporary
standards of a particular communion in contem
plating, and attempting to supply, the present
wants of Christendom; sympathy offered