The life and correspondence of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., Vol. 2 (of 2): Late principal librarian of the British museum, senator of Italy, etc.Fagan, Louis
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The life and correspondence of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., Vol. 2 (of 2): Late principal librarian of the British museum, senator of Italy, etc.
Fagan, Louis
Panizzi, Anthony, Sir, 1797-1879
Now for the extracts. The first Article of the Convention between
Gregory XVI. and Charles Albert, dated March 27th, 1841, runs
thus:—‘Avuto riguardo alle circostanze de’Tempi, alle necessità delle
private amministrazione della guistizia, ed alla mancanza de’mezzi
corrispondenti dei Tribunali Vescovili, la Santa Sede non farà,
difficoltà che i magistrati laici giudichino gli Ecclesiastici per
tutti i reati che hanno la qualificazione di crimini.’ _Ergo_, the
Santa Sede ‘può fare difficoltà’ if she chooses, and the Civil power
by asking to be allowed to try a priest guilty of murder, for
instance, acknowledges the right of the Holy See: _Ergo, in altre
circostanze_, that same Santa Sede can make _difficoltà_. You need not
my saying more. The Canonist who stated the doctrines of Rome on
Concordat to refute them, is Schmidt (Anton), Professor of Canon Law
at Heidelberg, in the last century, whose words are as follows:—
‘I.—Summum Pontificem Concordatis cum Natione germ, initis, derogare
posse contendunt præter Authores Pontificios Branden.
‘II.—S. Pontifex, ajunt, summus Christi Vicarius, & jure divino habet
dispensationem, ac plenissimam administrationem omnium bonorum ad
quascunque Ecclesias pertinentium, consequenter ex plenitudine
potestatis potest vel in totum, vel pro parte Concordata tollere.
‘III.—Concordata ceu Indulta ordinaria in favorem Germanorum admissa
continent meram gratiam, non tam vim pacti, quàm privilegii, & sicuti
privilegium revocari potest, ita in libera S. Pontificis remanet
facultate, an iisdem stare, vel ab eis recedere velit.
‘IV.—Licèt coram Puteo dec. 47, dicantur habere vim contractûs,
intelligendum hoc ex parte Germanorum, quòd vide licet illi non solum
ex jure divino sint obligati ut Christiani ad parendum Rom. Pontifici,
sed etiam ex speciali Concordia quasi in vim contractæ pacificationis
inita, ut in omni judicio Germani sedi Apostolicæ rebelles minus
forent excusabiles; si obedientiæ suavi jugo excusso, etiam pacta
firmata violare præsumant, adeoque Concordata dicunt saltem negotium
ex pacto, & privilegio mixtum.
‘V.—Id quod confirmatur etiam ex eo, quod S. Pontifex suam summam, &
absolutam potestatem, quam a Christo accepit, de rebus Ecclesiæ,
officiis, & beneficiis Ecclesiasticis disponendi a se abdicare non
possit, quin semper penes se majorem adhuc retineat.
‘VI.—Successores succedunt jure singulari non universali, nempe jure
Electionis, novo titulo, novo jure, & sic Nicolaus V. non potuit suis
successoribus taliter legem imponere, quam ipsi de omnimoda
necessitate tenerentur servare.’
(Thesaurus Juris Ecclesiastici sive Dissertationes Selectæ, &c., vol.
1, p. 339). Such doctrines ought to be known. Many Canonists,
Catholics, have differed from them. I have never heard them condemned
or disavowed at Rome; on the contrary, taught in the Universities in
the Papal States.
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