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Excerpt from Ultramontanism Exemplified in Irish Disaffection, in the Action of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and in the Doctrines of the Jesuit Suarez, and Others Lately Referred to as Lights of His Church by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin: With a Translation in Full of Monita Privata, or Secret Advices of the Order of Jesuits It is not a truth, though asserted lately by an Ultramontane writer, that the present Pope Pius IX., as the chief glory of his Papacy, com menced, matured, and perfected the Church's doctrine of civil prince dom on the contrary, that is a doctrine which had been dogmatically taught, centuries before his time, by his predecessors, and centuries past, when the assumption became intolerable in its excesses, had been spurned and condemned as an insolent encroachment of Papal arro gance, even by princes and peoples who yet acknowledged ecclesiastical Obedience to the bishops of Rome; but it is a truth that, attempting to take advantage of the religio-political complications of the present period, the representatives of the Ultramontanists of a former age are again putting forward the antiquated Papal claim to a universal supre macy, and having resumed the rusted weapons of the past, are making use Of them to assail every principle of social, civil, or religious freedom of thought, word, or action, and vainly endeavourn to extinguish every Spark of intellectual light, not of their kindling, among the laity of the Catholic Church. Ultramontanism, resuscitated by them for aggressive enterprize, not only demands to the attainment of its pur poses the instant, unhesitating, unreserved obedience of Catholics in things secular as well as religious, but has the temerity to confront the intelligence, the civilization, the science, the mental development, and even the Protestantism of the nineteenth century, as though the world had no record of its former procedure, or of its result, in the extreme mental debasement, or in the amount of scepticism, infidelity, and atheism, the rank immorality, or the stupid superstitions, coupled with intolerant bigotry, which, instead of Christianity, it had generated throughout the Italian Peninsula, and in those Continental countries that had, like Italy, been for any lengthened period under the direct domination or influence of the Papacy it seems disposed to beset us on and had there several colleges in its hands, which were Closed in 1828 some of them have since been reopened, and within the last twenty years the number of persons belonging to the order has been doubled. The Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
