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
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Dom (Trier, Germany); German Catholicism; Holy Coat
it! May the German people be then truly a people of brothers--one in
that one thing which is needful--one in will, and deed, and faith, and
struggles; and may the German fatherland, like the holy garment itself,
be undivided! God grant you grace and strength for this great end!
"(Signed) "The Cathedral Clergy of Breslau.
"31st October 1844."
This document, like the preceding, is its own commentary. We leave
our readers to weigh it along with the exposure made in Ronge's
"Justification." It is not difficult now to see what influences have
been at work in procuring its suppression, and it is deeply to be
lamented, that a government so liberal as the Saxon, should have
interfered in keeping back a statement so important, in the defence of
truth and justice.
We do not deem it necessary to make long quotations from the ordinary
Catholic journals on this part of the subject. They breathe the same
spirit. Many of them are filled with appeals, of which a single sentence
may suffice as a specimen:--"Laity and priesthood! have you already
forgotten whither such proceedings lead? Know you not the causes and
consequences of the Reformation? Will you lead the way to a second
breach in the Church, as if the first had not been deplorable enough,
both for the Church and country?" &c. All of such extracts are proofs
strong enough, how sensible all parties of Catholics are of the danger
to be apprehended from Ronge's movement.
THE NEW CHURCH.
It is now our duty to turn shortly to the positive results of this
movement, _in the formation of a New Church, independent of all Papal
connexion, and as such, calling itself not the Roman but German Catholic
Church_. We have seen how Ronge had been excommunicated, and in what
terms his former ecclesiastical superiors now spoke of him. Having been
discarded by the Church, and no longer admitted to its ordinances,
he set himself, without reserve, to the formation of a new Christian
community. The first step towards this end was the publication of his
second letter, addressed.
TO THE INFERIOR CLERGY.
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