60 The proposal of two Rhenish Prelates for a common declaration
against Döllinger’s paper on Infallibility was rejected in the
meeting of German Bishops. The chief opponents were Hefele,
Eberhard, Raynald, Strossmayer and Förster, who maintained that,
certain arguments apart, Döllinger represented in the main the views
of most German Bishops on the subject. It was further insisted, in
express repudiation of the stand-point of mere “inopportuneness,”
that the addresses already signed by the Infallibilists were
directed in principle against the doctrine of the Church. The two
Prelates declared nevertheless that they would not separate
themselves from their colleagues who had signed those documents.