20 [Archbishop MacHale does not seem to have justified this
anticipation.—TR.]
21 Excommunications _latæ sententiæ_, as distinguished from
excommunication _ferendæ sententiæ_, are those which immediately
take effect on the commission of the forbidden act, without
requiring any sentence of Pope or Bishop to be pronounced.
22 When the news arrived from Paris of the abolition of the Pragmatic
Sanction, _i.e._, of the reforms of Basle.
23 [This formula, often mistakenly supposed to occur in the Papal
Coronation service, refers to the traditional length of St. Peter’s
pontificate—twenty-five years. No Pope has yet reigned to the end of
his twenty-fifth year, and only one has entered on the beginning of
it. Pius IX. completes his twenty-fourth year on June 16, 1870.—TR.]
24 [This point is forcibly dwelt on by Count Daru in his memorandum,
which the Pope refused to lay before the Council.—TR.]
25 “Animas eorum qui in solo peccato originali, vel mortali actuali
decedunt, in infernum descendere, pœnis tamen disparibus puniendas.”
26 “Imprimis itaque fide Catholicâ, tenendum est illorum animas,” etc.
The author seems really to believe that the Rationalistic tendencies
of the age can be cured with an emetic.
27 [Cardinal Reisach, who was formerly Archbishop of Munich, used to
say he had almost forgotten how to speak German.—TR.]
28 “Supremam ideoque ab errore immunem esse Romani Pontificis
auctoritatem, quum in rebus fidei et moram ea statuit ac præcipit
quæ ab omnibus Christi fidelibus credenda et tenenda, quæve
rejicienda et damnanda sunt.”
29 “Per l’infallibilità, essendo l’Abbate Mastai, l’ho sempre creduto,
adesso, essendo Papa Mastai, la sento.”
30 [This reads almost like a prophecy, when we remember how afterwards,
and on slighter provocation than is here supposed, hundreds of the
Infallibilist Bishops danced like maniacs round the pulpit when
Strossmayer and Schwarzenberg were speaking, yelling and shaking
their fists at them.—Cf. _infr._ Letter xxxii.—TR.]
31 [Archbishop Darboy’s interposition stopped the conspiracy being
carried out at the first General Congregation, and four American
Bishops disconcerted a second similar plot on St. Joseph’s Day,
March 19.—Cf. _infr._ Letter xxxvi.—TR.]
32 “In specie ne Concilium declaret vel definiat infallibilitatem summi
Pontificis, a doctissimis et prudentissimus fidelibus S. Sedi intime
addictis vehementer optatur. Gravia enim mala exinde oritura timent
tum fidelibus tum infidelibus. Fideles enim ... corde turbarentur
magis quam erigerentur, ac si nunc demum fundamentum Ecclesiæ et
veræ doctrinæ stabiliendum sit; infideles vero novarum calumniarum
et derisionum materiam lucrarentur. Neque desunt qui ejusmodi
definitionem logice impossibilem vocant et ad ipsam Ecclesiam
provocant, quæ ad instar solis splendorem lucis suæ monstrat quidem,
sed non definit. Jure denique quæritur, cui usui ista definitio
foret, de cujus sensu, modo et ambitu ampla inter theologos
controversia est.”
33 [Monsignor Nardi said this _totidem verbis_ to an Anglican clergyman
who was inspecting the Council Hall.—TR.]