John Ronge; The Holy Coat of Treves; New German-Catholic ChurchAnonymous
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John Ronge; The Holy Coat of Treves; New German-Catholic Church
Anonymous
Dom (Trier, Germany); German Catholicism; Holy Coat
This Address, and many of a similar nature, have been signed by
Protestants and Catholics alike. Individual addresses also have been
sent, signed exclusively by Catholics, and others signed exclusively by
Protestants, as those from Leipsic and Berlin. Accounts from all parts
of Germany are of a similar nature; even Bohemia, where the voice
of Huss has long been silent, has come under the influence of the
excitement,--Ronge's letter having crossed the frontier, and been
circulated, no one could tell well how, by the thousand. It has now been
translated into several of the languages of Europe, and it cannot admit
of doubt, that on all hands the eyes of many are being opened by it, to
see the awful bondage in which they and their fathers have so long been
held.
While all this was going on, it was not to be expected that the Catholic
party should remain silent. Accordingly, they have been striving
_per fas et nefas_, to arrest the movement, by calumniations of the
author--by defences of their conduct--by appeals to the evils of the
Reformation, and occasional significant references to the "powers that
be" in the Vatican. It ought to be stated, that several of the Catholic
clergy, before the appearance of Ronge's letter, had denounced the
intended pilgrimage, manfully declaring, in opposition to all the
sayings and doings of Arnoldi, and even the Bull of Leo X., that this
was no matter of Catholic doctrine, and that it remained open for each
individual Catholic to treat the evidence for or against the genuineness
of the relic, as his private judgment and free inquiry might lead him.
From such quarters, the movement of Ronge could not well be opposed; and
it is striking, that wherever a priest has so expressed his opinion, but
few, indeed, of his people went to Treves. Whether many of this class
may join the movement remains to be seen, but it certainly seems highly
probable.
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