Church History, Volume 3 (of 3)Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich)
History
Church History, Volume 3 (of 3)
Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich)
Church history
high festivals, were announced on the following Sunday. The
bitter hatred shown by the Czechs and the ultramontane clergy
to everything German has given to the Old Catholic movement for
some years past a new impulse and decided advantage.--=In France=
the Abbé Michaud of Paris lashed the characterlessness of the
episcopate and was excommunicated, and the Abbés Mouls and Junqua
of Bordeaux were ordered by the police to give up wearing the
clerical dress. Junqua, refusing to obey this order, was accused
by Cardinal Donnet, Bishop of Bordeaux, before the civil court,
and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Not till 1879
did the ex-Carmelite Loyson of Paris lay the foundation of a
Catholic Gallican church, affiliated with the Swiss Old Catholics
(§ 187, 8).--=In Italy= since 1862, independently of the German
movement, yet on essentially the same grounds, a national Italian
church was started with very promising beginnings, which were
not, however, realized (§ 187, 7). Rare excitement was caused
throughout Italy by the procedure of Count Campello, canon of
St. Peter’s in Rome, who in 1881 publicly proclaimed his creed
in the Methodist Episcopal chapel, there renouncing the papacy,
and in a published manifesto addressed to the cathedral chapter
justified this step and made severe charges against the papal
curia; but soon after, in a letter to Loyson, he declared that
he, remaining faithful to the true Catholic church, did not
contemplate joining any Protestant sect severed from Catholic
unity, and in a communication to the Old Catholic Rieks of
Heidelberg professed to be in all points at one with the German
Old Catholics. Accordingly he sought to form in Rome a Catholic
reform party, whose interests he advocated in the journal _Il
Labaro_. The pope’s domestic chaplain, Monsignor Savarese, has
adopted a similar attitude. In December, 1883, he was received
by the pastor of the American Episcopal church at Rome into the
Old Catholic church on subscribing the Nicene Creed. In 1886 they
were joined by another domestic chaplain of the pope, Monsignor
Renier, formerly an intimate friend of Pius IX., who publicly
separated himself from the papal church, and with them took his
place at the head of a Catholic “_Congregation of St. Paul_” in
Rome.--Also the Episcopal _Iglesia Española_ in Spain (§ 205, 4),
and the Mexican _Iglesia de Jesus_ (§ 209, 1), must be regarded
as essentially of similar tendencies to the Old Catholics.
§ 191. CATHOLIC THEOLOGY, ESPECIALLY IN GERMANY.
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